[Wswss] 1296 Activity 12/17/2006

[CHARLES LEADER]

Good aternoon all,

Nice activity level and propagation this morning. I really appreciate the good southern CA. turnout as well as Dale in San Francisco joining us.

The following were active this morning:

K6TSK         DM03xt    Ralph
WA9WBV    CM87ss    Dale
WB6NOA    DM13bp    Gordo
K6HLH        DM14cp    Larry

I was also hearing another CW station calling but was unable to pull the call out. The band was starting to tank here and could have been either Len WA6KLK or Larry W6OMF calling off the backside of the array.

I noticed that N6XQ/b was particularly good this morning between 0830 & 0930 hrs. Spectran showed substantial airplane reflections (some > 20 dB above the noise floor) as well as some indication of tropo as the morning air warmed.

Weather was sunny to partly cloudy with temperature around 50F.

Thanks again to all,

Chuck NA6XX CM97bf