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Author Topic: Mid-West and East Coast Heatwave could mean good VHF / UHF Tropo? Maybe...  (Read 179 times)

Offline ThaDood

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Mid-West and East Coast Heatwave could mean good VHF / UHF Tropo? Maybe...
« on: June 19, 2025, 1753 UTC »
With this fist day of summer heatwave, starting in WV, Friday 6/20/2025, we may go to around 100 degrees this weekend and into next week. So, could that mean some nice VHF / UHF Tropo Propagation? Hope so... https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html   Especially, late night and very early morning. Our 162MHz Weather Stations make for some nice tax $$$$ bought VHF beacons. Oh yeah... Need an OTA Antenna for UHF HDTV DX reception? Build one.   https://archive.org/details/pren2mdvuhfindoortvantennaandtestpdf/6342862%2C%20Pamphlet%2011-2014%2C%20hi%20res/
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 1918 UTC by ThaDood »
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Re: Mid-West and East Coast Heatwave could mean good VHF / UHF Tropo? It was....
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2025, 1804 UTC »
When, I woke-up for a bathroom break at 3AM, I checked the WX FREQ's on the indoor scanner's antennas. And, the Ashland, KY station marched in at full quieting, 162.550MHz. Normally, I can't even pick that up indoors, and it's very weak on the outside Discone. So a good opening to the West.
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“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.
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