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HF Beacons / HA on 6,816k
« on: July 01, 2011, 2043 UTC »
Hearing it in the Atlanta area 20:40z on 6,815.91 kHz.
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HF Beacons / Hexie and Kelsie into Atlanta
« on: July 01, 2011, 1257 UTC »
Caught Hexie (4096.25 kHz) and Kelsie (4096.57 kHz) in Atlanta at around 10:20 GMT (just before sunrise here). Noise floor was S7 and they were fading in and out, but clearly audible at times.
Some of the others I check for propogation: No Russian letter beacons could be found, CHU was only audible on 3330 kHz, and I caught the CW ID during the SITOR idle from NRV (Guam) on 8521.9 kHz and WHO (Mobile, AL) on 8418.92 kHz.
Glad to be hearing something again, but the bands still seem pretty dead...
Some of the others I check for propogation: No Russian letter beacons could be found, CHU was only audible on 3330 kHz, and I caught the CW ID during the SITOR idle from NRV (Guam) on 8521.9 kHz and WHO (Mobile, AL) on 8418.92 kHz.
Glad to be hearing something again, but the bands still seem pretty dead...
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HF Beacons / What's up with the sunspots?
« on: June 15, 2011, 1212 UTC »
I haven't had time to do much listening to HF over the past year. Over the weekend I got the station cleaned out and working. My homebrew active antenna (which was my best performer from LF up to 7 or 8 MHz) is broke and I need to rebuild it. I'm using my multiband vertical which is decent through most of the HF band. But so far, not a single PiFER beacon. Also no Russian Letter beacons which use to be regulars.
Came across this article on sunspot activity:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
I've read a couple of things about this, but the graph in this article shows a pretty clear trend. Hope it's wrong because if it's right we might not have any great HF conditions again in my lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was all about the coming ice age. Then it was all about global warming. Now they are talking about a mini-ice age. Hopefully they are wrong (yet again) and propagation will pick up again.
73,
Jim
Came across this article on sunspot activity:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/
I've read a couple of things about this, but the graph in this article shows a pretty clear trend. Hope it's wrong because if it's right we might not have any great HF conditions again in my lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was all about the coming ice age. Then it was all about global warming. Now they are talking about a mini-ice age. Hopefully they are wrong (yet again) and propagation will pick up again.
73,
Jim
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HF Beacons / Pike into Atlanta area
« on: December 23, 2010, 1653 UTC »
I'm copying a dasher that I assume is Pike on 8000.260 kHz on Dec. 23 at 16:40z. Weak with QSB, but clearly audible at times. Watching it on the audio spectrum analyzer and it's kind of funny--some dashes are fairly solid and others trace an almost perfect "S" shape as the frequency shifts a bit.
Trying to get the station put back into working order after being off the air for several months...
73,
Jim W4JBM
Trying to get the station put back into working order after being off the air for several months...
73,
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / Saturday Morning logs
« on: October 24, 2009, 1821 UTC »
Had a chance to tune the bands this morning for the first time in a while. Between about 0900z and 0930z I caught OK, TMP, Kelsie, and KX. But the big catch was OR making it back into Georgia. Hadn't heard it for a while. Was fading in and out on 8221.92 kHz, but was clearly audible at times.
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HF Beacons / OR into West Georgia
« on: June 16, 2009, 1358 UTC »
I'm hearing OR, weak with QSB, but clearly audible at times, here in west Georgia again on 8211.86 kHz at 1345z.
Also have Echo on 10236.94 kHz and CO on 11003.19 kHz.
No joy on UFO or Pike either now or earlier this morning.
73,
Jim W4JBM
Also have Echo on 10236.94 kHz and CO on 11003.19 kHz.
No joy on UFO or Pike either now or earlier this morning.
73,
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / unIDed on 11004.6kHz
« on: June 02, 2009, 1007 UTC »
Was looking for CO and came across something sending 5 dots and a dash at 11004.60 kHz at 1005z (early morning here). Some QSB but you can hear several streams of clear copy. I've got a recording if anyone is interested.
73,
Jim W4JBM
73,
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / West Georgia Logs 29 May 2009
« on: May 29, 2009, 2250 UTC »
From this morning...
0952z Pike Dasher - 8,000.84kHz - Solid most of the time but occasional QSB.
1002z Kelsie - 4,096.60kHz - Occasional fade-in with decent signal level.
1006z UFO - 7997.36kHz & 7,997.97kHz - DSB/MCW-like signal. Decent copy with occasional QSB.
1015z OR - 8,211.85kHz - Very weak with QSB but occasional audio copy and clear ID on Spectrogram.
1019z MO - 4,077.42kHz - Decent signal usually readable with occasional QSB.
1021z OK - 3,449.82kHz - Fairly solid copy with light QSB at times.
I miss KX--use to hear it just about every morning I listened, but haven't heard it in a while.
Location: Bowdon Junction, GA (33.6581,-85.1249 EM73)
Receiver: Yaesu FT-857D
Antenna: Ground level Butternut Vertical
73 de
Jim W4JBM
0952z Pike Dasher - 8,000.84kHz - Solid most of the time but occasional QSB.
1002z Kelsie - 4,096.60kHz - Occasional fade-in with decent signal level.
1006z UFO - 7997.36kHz & 7,997.97kHz - DSB/MCW-like signal. Decent copy with occasional QSB.
1015z OR - 8,211.85kHz - Very weak with QSB but occasional audio copy and clear ID on Spectrogram.
1019z MO - 4,077.42kHz - Decent signal usually readable with occasional QSB.
1021z OK - 3,449.82kHz - Fairly solid copy with light QSB at times.
I miss KX--use to hear it just about every morning I listened, but haven't heard it in a while.
Location: Bowdon Junction, GA (33.6581,-85.1249 EM73)
Receiver: Yaesu FT-857D
Antenna: Ground level Butternut Vertical
73 de
Jim W4JBM
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HF Beacons / West Georgia Logs 16 May 2009
« on: May 16, 2009, 1959 UTC »
Storms in the area, so lots of QRN with lightning crashes through the whole day today.
0955z - OR on 8211.89 kHz. Very weak and barely audible, but definitely there.
1002z - Kelsie on 4096.59 kHz. Some QSB but decent copy.
1006z - Hexie on 4096.25. Heavy QSB.
1014z - TMP on 4079.63. Heavy QSB and down in the noise, but I think the temperature was 70.
1022z - OK on 3449.82. Good signal and solid copy.
1529z - CO on 11002.76. Heavy QSB but clearly audible on occasions.
1539z - Pike Dasher on 8003.99. Heavy QSB and difficult to dig out.
Location: Bowdon Junction, GA (33.6581,-85.1249 EM73)
Receiver: Yaesu FT-857D
Antenna: Ground level Butternut Vertical
73 de
Jim W4JBM
0955z - OR on 8211.89 kHz. Very weak and barely audible, but definitely there.
1002z - Kelsie on 4096.59 kHz. Some QSB but decent copy.
1006z - Hexie on 4096.25. Heavy QSB.
1014z - TMP on 4079.63. Heavy QSB and down in the noise, but I think the temperature was 70.
1022z - OK on 3449.82. Good signal and solid copy.
1529z - CO on 11002.76. Heavy QSB but clearly audible on occasions.
1539z - Pike Dasher on 8003.99. Heavy QSB and difficult to dig out.
Location: Bowdon Junction, GA (33.6581,-85.1249 EM73)
Receiver: Yaesu FT-857D
Antenna: Ground level Butternut Vertical
73 de
Jim W4JBM
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