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General Category => Amateur Radio => Topic started by: Matt285 on March 27, 2019, 2240 UTC
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20m is open late in the day. Lots of DX stations. Worked Barbados, Slovenia, Spain, England,Austria and Canada. Will try to log tomorrow
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Just added Anguilla and Jamaica
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Left coast and Hawaii was propagating to the midwest last nite at the same time as Russians were. Odd how 20m behaves sometimes.
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20m SSTV (14230) was busy through around 0200 overnight, not too bad given recent conditions.
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20 was closed last nite, but 80 had Germans on ssb, one was saying he was an hour into sunrise and still had a strong sig here.
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20m is dead right now save for a frying egg sound to the band, suppose a solar fart has been farted. 40's dead too.
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20 meters wide open last night and tonight (local) for a few hours. Heard a guy in Hawaii talking to Europe, Russia, etc. for over an hour. Haven't heard conditions like this for several months.
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I actually worked a guy in Germany last night. He told he had lived in the US for a couple of years for studies. He then said he had been to Florida and loved it. He went on to tell me he would consider living in Florida if it weren't for ZE Alligators, they are a nuisance no?
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Shoulda popped on 20 last nite, Lajes was coming in on 11175 so I knew propa was propagatin.
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Yes. its been good lately starting around 7/8 o'clock. Waiting for a lightning storm to pass so I can get on.
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What kind of antenna are you guys running on 20m?
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20 dipole fed with a balun and RG-6 coax.
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An OCF dipole at about 35'. Running 100 watts.
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An OCF dipole at about 25'. Running 200 watts.