[SixClub] Field Day a wash on the majic band

[mikea]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Mike (KA5CVH) Urich wrote:
> On 6/25/06, Howard Bingham <howardb at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know about other groups, but the two clubs I belong to in
> > Houston, Tx. area had very little luck in stirring up many QSO's on 6M
> > this weekend.
> >
> > BVARC  KK5W   <http://www.bvarc.com>
> > ECHO   W5ECO  <http://www.w5eco.org>
> 
> Mike wrote
> 
> CLARC http://www.clarc.org/jprod/ was on the air as NU5M.

We were in Norman, OK, with a dipole at 36 feet oriented ENE/WSW. 

I was really surprised at the propagation patterns, and may try to 
do a time-series plot on a map as part of my website. We never got 
any contacts from close-in states (TX, KS, MO, AR, LA, NM), or from 
the far west states, but did get contacts from the next set of states
out to the west (AZ, UT, CO, WY, MT) and to the east (IL, IN, PA,
OH, MI, NY, MD, NC, SC, GA, VT, NH, ME, and DC). The best way I can
explain it is that there was a roughly-constant-diameter ring of
places we could talk with, that the thickness of the ring increased as
the propagation improved, and that the thickness went down essentially
to zero as propagation got worse.

I was very surprised that we got no contacts from TX or AR, by the 
way. C'est la vie. 

73, de

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