[SixClub] Band appears to be closing to EM92

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 6/12/2010 11:22 PM, kd4e wrote:
> Band mostly gone in EM92 ... still a few strays ...
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Surprisingly I was working them until about 0005 local (0505Z). I picked 
up a 7 at 11:50 local although it took me 15 minutes to get him. I was 
mostly hunting for new grids, but still worked quite a few. The band was 
open for almost a full 12 hours. The last station I worked was a 5 on 
50.200 and there were stations well above him. It was about 11:50 when 
the band started to weaken noticeably.
Man, but I gotta get that beam back up and the new amp ...As many 
stations as I worked I'd have done far better with the amp and antenna.

Where do you operate Doc?  I was just surfing the band looking for new 
ones, but made a lot of quick contacts with the strong ones. Like I said 
though, a 100 watts to that vertical just isn't the same as the big Yagi 
at 115 feet, let alone running the legal limit.

Like you I found I was having problems finding new stations until the 
band would shift, or new operators would come on.

I don't know if I'll get on tomorrow...er today now. I have to go finish 
an oil and filter change on the Deb.  It used a screen instead of an oil 
filter so I had a filter adapter put on and had to retorque that. Both 
the adapter and filter have to be safety wired, and it turned out the 
wire I had was too large to run two pieces off the one tie point so I 
need to pick up some smaller wire and redo the safety wire, test the 
system for leaks, and then put an hour of so on it to be sure.  I had to 
put a new filter on and do the retorquing as the thing started leaking 
oil and that can be a bit unnerving at 10,000 feet.  When I parked it I 
found a puddle of oil under the engine, but it was only down about a pint.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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