GM everyone!
Yesterday I had an interesting evening on 222mhz with lots of activity (Thanks
Dave!). Running only 85 watts and a home brew K1FO 18el yagi I managed to work
11 stations in 10 grids on CW and USB and my tower wasn't cranked all the way
up! I think band conditions were pretty good but I still had to work to make a
few of them! Most difficult was K1ZK but we finally made it on qsb peaks
working odd/even 30sec segments on cw.
Longest contact was with VE3DS at 376 miles on cw, Thanks Dana!
The strongest stations worked were K1WHS and KO4YC, both were S9+.
Looking forward to next week.
73 de,
N3RG Ray
> On 08/29/2023 1:50 PM EDT David Olean <k1whs@metrocast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Don't forget that Tuesday evenings are reserved for 222 MHz activity.
> There is no excuse for you watching re runs of Taxi or Seinfeld. You
> don't want to be looking at Facebook either checking on the latest smart
> phone photos of what your friends ate for dinner. Join the cool crowd.
> Get on 222 instead. Everybody is gravitating to 222.100 starting at
> about 2300 UT on the East Coast. The activity stretches out past 0200 as
> you go farther West. There is now considerable activity in middle
> America which is great. CW, SSB, FT8, MSK144, FM, all are welcome. We
> are still waiting for the first slow scan TV QSO.
>
> Another feature of today's 222 Activity night is that the Moon rises
> here in Maine at 23:15 UT. Guys in New England will be busy working each
> other between 2300 and 0000 UT, but as the Moon appears in the mid and
> far west starting at around 00:30 there will be a few EMEers on the Moon
> making noise. Best plan is to check the HB9Q logger page (220 MHz) and
> see who is doing what. I plan to be QRV on EME as we get close to 0100
> UT. That is perfect for working guys like WQ0P in EM19. His Moon comes
> up at 00:45 UT. Note that K3SK will be on trying with W6TCP in
> California. W6TCP's Moon rise is at 02:30 UT, so expect some activity
> off the Moon this evening. I should add that degradation is about as low
> as possible, so signals will be very good when things line up. I plan to
> hit EME pretty hard this evening looking for anyone with a single good
> yagi and a few hundred watts. Tonight could be the night, with such low
> degradation. If you are a 222 EMEer, tonight would be a great time to
> congregate around 222.085 starting whenever the Moon comes up. We need
> signals for the horizon only folks to listen to!
>
> I have been watching the Hepburn Tropo site and and looks like southern
> New England will be happy on Thursday morning again, with tropo
> extending westward as far as Missouri. Northern New England might see
> some action starting late at night Friday night and then early Saturday
> morning both down the coast and inland. Sunday looks like a coastal
> event with Nova Scotia involved down to Florida with extreme intensity.
> The next few days bear watching as the system could change and go flat,
> or it could cause another good tropo session oover the weekend. Do not
> forget to check the bands!
>
> 73
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
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