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Amateur Radio / For those that want to get away from Field Day madness...

« on: June 23, 2020, 2104 UTC »

Don't forget... If you want to get away from this weekend's Field Day craziness, the WARC 12M band, 24.890MHz - 24.990MHz, also does nice Sporadic "E" hops as well, yet I hear very few ops using it for that. The "E" skip maybe a bit shorter than 10M and 11M hops. HAPPY DX!!!!!

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Propagation / Will Sahara / Atlantic Dust Cloud affect propagation?

« on: June 23, 2020, 2046 UTC »

What is this dust cloud going to do to affect RF on various FREQ's?    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/abnormally-large-dust-cloud-making-5000-mile-trek-across-atlantic/761708
This does not answer that.

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Amateur Radio / Re: Anyone ready for Field Day 2020?

« on: June 23, 2020, 1814 UTC »

Actually, yes... During Field Day dinners, and even breakfasts, folks have a tendency to see what other people's rigs can RX. I know that I have, so I would tune around 6925kHz, 13.900MHz, 15.050MHz, 1710kHz, etc. With many of these stations now SDR aided, this would be a great weekend to be checking for pirates.

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Equipment / Re: RFI from Recent Installation of Metal Rain Gutters?

« on: June 20, 2020, 1850 UTC »

I've DF'ed wide-ass RFI hash to duct works inside the house and the outside vent pipe. Every time the furnace would kick on, I'd get this bad crunching noise as well. So, I grounded the whole assembly. That worked.

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Amateur Radio / WV QSO Party, that is this weekend 6/20/2020.

« on: June 19, 2020, 2309 UTC »

I was recently told about this,     https://www.qsl.net/wvsarc/wvqp/wvqp.html

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General Radio Discussion / Re: CHAZ Free Radio Stations?

« on: June 19, 2020, 1948 UTC »

Oh wow!!!! Thanks for the reminder. I haven't corresponded with these two in years. Maybe, I should again. I even bought the DVD at the time and promoted the schytt out of their movie. I just can't believe that was just 15 years ago. (Here comes the Ben Stein WOW here.)

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Amateur Radio / Anyone ready for Field Day 2020?

« on: June 19, 2020, 1934 UTC »

http://www.arrl.org/field-day        Glad that I looked, since I thought that it was the weekend after the ARRL VHF Sweepsteaks. But, for those that want to get away from that to just QSO, there's always the WARC Bands and 60M, as well as 146.520MHz FM Simplex.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: No to Digital AM!!!!!!!

« on: June 19, 2020, 1928 UTC »

As sort of an add-on to the AM Stereo,    https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/no-to-digital-am

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General Radio Discussion / Re: CHAZ Free Radio Stations?

« on: June 18, 2020, 0607 UTC »

Well, from what I've observed from CHAZ, CHOP, or whatever they will next call that now 3 block area, if it can't come over a smart phone, then there's no use, or interest, for it. That, and unless it's all plug& play, I suspect that the technical competency to build, assemble, and run, a pirate station there doesn't exist. Yes, I can certainly be wrong here, but that said in the preceding, it may be interesting to monitor the known pirate FM stations in areas where the protests, and riots, have been going on in other cities.   

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Why is the World Health Organisation Anti-Meat?

« on: June 15, 2020, 0316 UTC »

And, apparently raising farm animals adds to the so-called 'Greenhouse Gases' when they fart. Last year, didn't you hear about the dangers of cow farts?

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10/11 meters / Re: 11 meter channel 29 usb June 13

« on: June 15, 2020, 0302 UTC »

Sounds like Sporadic "E" skip from Quebec. Tis the season for it. You may still hear Canadians on CH16 LSB still when Skip rolls from Quebec and Ontario.

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General Radio Discussion / Letter to the Editor: AM Stereo Is Still an Option? Sure!

« on: June 13, 2020, 1757 UTC »

Boomer forwarded that to me.    https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/readers-forum/letter-to-the-editor-am-stereo-is-still-an-option
      Well, I still think that it's an option, even if many of those AM stereo stations are not music formats. And, there are still a couple AM Stereo transmitter kits out there, as well as receiver MOD kits for that as well.

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Amateur Radio / Re: ARRL VHF Sweepsteaks this weekend June 13 - 14, 2020!

« on: June 12, 2020, 1909 UTC »

VHF High and UHF were wide open to my south this morning towards the VA and SE KY borders. The country bumpkin on 96.5FM Williamson, WV boomed in right over a local 96.5FM translator. And south is my geographically very worst direction. Will we have that this weekend? Murphy's Law says, NO!

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Equipment / Re: Radio Jay's review, site and Radio Survivor interview?

« on: June 12, 2020, 1904 UTC »

The Radio Jay site is indeed a fun site to get lost in,   https://radiojayallen.com/    And, how I remember hearing about him was when I aired the interview of him on a very early Radio Survivor,   http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/03/14/podcast-84-improving-radio-reception/     It is more on improving AM / FM reception, but Radio Jay does talk about his site here, and I'm glad that he did. Yeah... No tech specs on his radios, and he says that up-front, but wants his site so that the average person can go through it.

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MW Loggings / Re: Shuttered AM College Station Frequency in CT Relaying NWR Transmitter

« on: June 09, 2020, 1909 UTC »

I interpret this to mean that the new format of the station is going to really suck.