[SixClub] Tropo?

[Howard Bingham]

I understand from TV weather predictions that fog 
conditions along the Texas Gulf Coast may materialize tonight too..

The fog was really thick in Houston this morning 
& I heard reports that the Texas DPS frequencies 
had extensive skip issues to the point the 
dispatchers reported mobile units were being 
covered by skip.. (This is in the VHF public service band just above 2 M..

Additionally a strong Channel 2 ( 
www.click2houston.com ) that I normally have no 
problems receiving, had ghost signals, which 
could indicate good 6M conditions in the EL29 grid..

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

Note: I will be on SSB 50.125 tonight about 9:30 
P.M. +/- 15 minutes on mobile from Sugar Land, Tx.

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At 07:37 AM 12/14/2006, mikea wrote:
>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
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