Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-23 Thread Dave Sergeant
Sporadic E does not really affect 20m. As for sporadic E, it is as per its name 'sporadic'. Saturday here in Europe was excellent and I had good fun on 10m. Yesterday it was a total anticlimax with the bands being pretty flat again. (and it looks as if the discussion on the new box has now

Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-23 Thread Bill W4ZV
g3ymc wrote: Sporadic E does not really affect 20m. N6BV makes a good case that Es on 10m-20m was a factor in the extremely high number of EU QSOs (ITU Zone 28/29) experienced by the competitors near Moscow at the WRTC in 2010. He does this by comparing VOACAP predictions using F2 only

Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-23 Thread Fred Jensen
On 5/23/2011 3:33 AM, Bill W4ZV wrote: g3ymc wrote: Sporadic E does not really affect 20m. N6BV makes a good case that Es on 10m-20m was a factor in the extremely high number of EU QSOs (ITU Zone 28/29) experienced by the competitors near Moscow at the WRTC in 2010. He does this by

[Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Jensen
Kevin, KD5ONS, is 569 running ECN on 14050.5 in N. Cal From that and all the 6m spots, looks like summer Es has finally arrived 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org

Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-22 Thread Tony Estep
Thanks to those who commented on the sporadic-E on 6M. I have never operated 6M except for a couple of months in 1959. On the few occasions that I've checked it, it was always dead as a doornail. After reading the posts on here today I checked, heard a bunch of signals and using my 10-meter

Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-22 Thread Kevin Rock
Operating conditions are never off topic on this Reflector. I enjoy hearing how the bands are performing whenever possible. 73, Kevin. KD5ONS On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:21:05 -0700, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to those who commented on the sporadic-E on 6M. I have

Re: [Elecraft] Es Season seems to have arrived

2011-05-22 Thread Jim Brown
On 5/22/2011 3:02 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: From that and all the 6m spots, looks like summer Es has finally arrived Yes. In less than a half hour I made three double-hop Qs -- from my QTH near San Francisco to Ohio (near Cleveland), WV (near Charleston), and TN (near Bristol, in the Smokies.