[NLRS] Cqww vhf...so far...

[Thomas Murphy]

Nothing in my log yesterday above 21.4 MHz. Got my POTA in and headed 
home from Dodgeville by 0Z. All I heard was a beacon and ever decreasing 
signal strengths on the 313 propagation monitor (where most ops 
presumably were getting anything in).

DXview had 50 MHz SSB level extending NYC/SC/MO, so there's a chance, 
but I could use doing more around the house before departing for CSVHF 
on Thursday.

- Thomas / WN1C


On 7/21/24 03:18, Dave Aho - N9TTX via NLRS wrote:
>  Uffda...dead bands. At least I got 2 q's in the books from EN34. I 
> heard some faint signals on 6m In the early afternoon, but it was 
> uncopiable.. There were also maybe a few faint signals on 6 and 2 late 
> afternoon around 5ish, but so far in the weeds to only hear a  mumble.
>
> Late night nothing either.  I kept hoping a little aurora might come 
> up...nope.  I did flip the HF on ..nice sounding rig Jon W0ZQ, 20 Was 
> booming late night into Europe. Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany,  
> and the Canary Islands. I had a short for 20m tuned in cb whip on the 
> truck instead of the Valor multiband, so I wasn't able to bust the 
> pile ups, but the signals were 20 over 9.
>
> Hopefully I'll get out a bit tomorrow in the mid morning til maybe the 
> end if the contest. Hopefully the bands open tomorrow. I'll be running 
> EN44, possibly EN45 on SSB/ (rusty)CW. I'll be hanging/calling out 
> about 50.125/144.200 and up if busy...dipping down below 50.126 voice 
> to Hopefully hit the DX window (forgot it was there. Lol)
> Now and again I'll drop further into the weak CW portion and call out 
> I'll say near the .025 freq on both bands
>
> 50 mHz:  100w into a squalo and if conditions allow, I can unfold the 
> 4 element when parked.
>
> 144 mHz:  150w into a homebrew 12 element
>
> I modulate, therefore I am! ...73, and all that jazz, Dave...N9TTX 
> Always remember: "It could be worse.....it could be raining." Marty 
> Feldman from "Young Frankenstein"
>
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