[SixClub] Tropo?

[mikea]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:18:51AM -0500, KG4ZDM at aol.com wrote:
> I am hearing what sounds like repeater skip on 2 meters FM this morning  here 
> in the River City . . . could be that 6 is open as well . . . the repeaters  
> I heard are 100 or so miles West of here.  Good conditions, ground fog in  low 
> lying areas, etc.
> 
> Anybody on?
>  
> Trent
> KG4ZDM
> Six Club #2037
> Lat-Long:
> 35.08  (35°5') |  -89.8 (-89°48')
> EM55cb

I was hearing what sounded like a Dallas-area 2m repeater here in the
OKC area. Condx look good here from a meteorological standpoint, also,
and yesterday's major solar flare probably is helping. The coronal 
mass ejection will put an end to that, and to HF-and-above comms, for
a few days, though, when it gets here. 

Home is somewhere in EM15gf, and OKC is 20 miles north. 

Alas, I'm at work -- in a basement, too -- where I don't even have 
good cellphone coverage. I can't hear broadcast FM or AM stations, 
much less relatively-weak signals. *sigh*

Sometimes I wonder how much of the reportedly-poor 6m propagation
is in fact that nobody's listening right then. I ran our club's 6m
station for Field Day, and we were making QSOs all day, with pileups
wanting to work us. Of course, I had two YLs and 4 kids rotating
through the operator's chair, and other stations are a lot more
attracted to those voices than to adult male voices. The youngest was
5, and he got a *lot* of calls.

Were the condx for Field Day really that much better than average?

Y'all have fun. I'll try when I get home. 

73, de

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin