During the first morning of the Stew, someone's electric fence was making lots of noise. I decided that something had to be done - and given the fun I have had dealing with my neighbors with electric
Yes Dave. Now you know what 2 meter EME sounds like for the "rest of us". :-) Happy Holidays and Happy New Year and congrats on the VU4 on 80. 73 Tree N6TR tree@kkn.net _____________________________
I spent most of my holiday vacation tracking down various electric fence noises. This is starting to turn into an obsession - and I feel like my work will never end. However, I think I have learned a
An interesting evening in Boring, Oregon. Arrived on the band around 0345 UTC and found 5T5SN with a very solid signal - several S units above the noise level. While searching for his QSX frequency,
This was a very strange opening for me. I heard many "small" stations to the south of me calling Europens. With the high K index, I didn't expect to hear anything in Europe, but was hoping for 5T5SN
Wow - 26 Europeans in two hours - from 0551 to 0755 UTC. The band was really quiet and the signals were good from all over: 9A, LY, I, OK, ON, HA, EA6, EA, F and many DK and G stations. Hoping for mo
About 8 years ago - Bernie - ZS4TX showed up every night for about a week with a great signal into Oregon. One local running 100 watts and a quarter wave sloper had no problem working him during this
CT3/VE3NZ sure had a very consistent signal last night - starting around 0400z for a couple of hours. http://www.kkn.net/~tree/ct3.wav Then - around 0600, I noticed an echo on my signal - which I ini
Was very happy to work my second new country in as many nights with ZP6CW making it into the log. Thanks Doug! I was hearing ZS6UT at the same time (around 0355z) - but let the people who needed ZS f
Just in case some of you forgot to send in your stew log, the Boring Amateur Radio Club would like to offer a brief extension to the log submission date to accomodate you. We would like break 400 log
Sunset in April in JA is around 0930 UTC. Your sunrise will be around 1345 UTC. Those would be the only possible times to work JA there. I would concentrate on the hour before your sunrise as the mos
The band has been trying to open on and off this week. N9ADG documented the opening we had early in the week - and last night - I nearly fell out of my chair when I clearly heard G4OBK work P40A. How
Well, the band has been bordering on the boring all week, but with the longer days coupled with leaving work a little early - I managed to be home just at sunset last night. 5T5SN and VE2PEP were try
Wow - what a difference being furthur south and east seems to make. There is no doubt that it has a major impact on the signals that I can hear - mostly from Europe. I tried really hard to work Euro
Olli at 8R1RPN sure had a solid signal last night, as did 9Y4/OM3TZZ. They seemed to be making into Europe pretty well. I have never heard Olli as strong as he was - and for a good hour as well. This
Sounds right. It is the same principle at work when I worked ZS8IR from Oregon. Nothing this AM from FT8XO on 160 at 1400Z. Also, nothing yesterday, but Saturday, they had a bit of signal and seemed
Wow - am I dreaming? No way FT5XO is coming in that well a whole 25 minutes before sunrise. Seems to be working JAs. Guess it isn't a bootlegger. Listen to that pileup! Wow. W7LR is even in there. Th
Well, I figured things would slow down to their normal Boring state here after the exciting event of the FT5XO QSO... but things continue to be interesting. Two nights ago, I heard ZS1JX, but he didn
Last night - UA6LV was once again coming through at sunset. I think the fact that his sunrise and my sunset are getting pretty close together might have something to do with his signal. It was better
Band started off sounding excellent. Noise was way down and the pileup calling S9SS was very loud even 45 minutes before sunset. S9SS started being heard right around sunset - but some turkey kept se