[Scan-DC] atmospheric skip this evening?

[Andrew Clegg]

Good job on the DX catch from Minnesota!

I caught the tail-end of an opening on the 6 meter amateur band (50 - 54 
MHz). It seems fairly dead now, but I talked with some local hams who said 
the band had been up and down for the last few hours.

When I was about 15 years old, my older brother had a Bearcat 10-channel 
scanner that my parents had bought him at Best Products (anyone remember 
them?). Anyway, the first summer he had it he would tell me on occasion that 
he was hearing police in California and in Canada coming in over the local 
low-band Virginia Beach police frequency. I didn't believe him for weeks 
until one day he let me listen to it, and sure enough, I heard police 
dispatches for places like Santa Monica Boulevard, clear as day.

That got me started in a lifelong hobby of scanning and ham radio. I never 
forgave him for that...

Cheers,
Andy

P.S. That Bearcat scanner still works today, 30 years later. I actually just 
donated it a couple of years ago to a member of this group, so a senior 
citizen he knows could listen to the local PD out in western VA.


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From: "Robert W. Fisher IV" <rwfisheriv at mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:32 PM
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Scan-DC] atmospheric skip this evening?

> Not sure what triggered it, but I picked up a tornado warning cutting in 
> over WAMU on 88.5MHz.  Only tornado warnings active at that time according 
> to NWS were in Minnesota......
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