Woody can't turn his beam - it's a fixed wire array pointing northeast. I seriously doubt he'd get you in Wyoming anyway!
People move there to get AWAY from population centers, and 40m is short skip daytime band. On 22 Jul 2002 at 9:38, WILHITE, JIM wrote: > Hi Brian: > > Interesting to read your post. I recently moved to Casper, WY and > find myself almost alone. The only regular activity up here is the > Colorado morning group. I moved here from Belton, TX and there you > could find activity morning, noon and night. > > Tell Woody to point his beam up this way, and if there are others who > are in this area, listen for me. I just got the Globe King 500 back > on line. Interesting here this summer, there are days when I can tune > the entire 40 meter band and not hear a signal between about 9 AM and > 4 PM except for maybe a couple of skeds. > > Sure am lonely the SX 28 will be waiting. > > Jim > de W5JPW > > > > I got on 7290 this morning and called CQ with about 20 watts from an > Icom 746. Lots of QRN came back the first few times. > > K4CR, Woody came back with a massive signal from near Punta Gorda, FL > > Woody reports that there used to be more daytime activity in Florida > on 40m AM, so perhaps it will be up to the two of us to revive things! > > he gets on 40m and 75m at night reporting plenty of contacts, but that > he is usually the only one from Florida on the air. > > Pair of 810 finals running 350 Watts, modulated by a pair of 810s to > 300 feet of co-ax cable. to a 4 element wire beam on Four 50 foot > towers, aimed toward the east coast. Wow! What a nice array! > > Of course, he's booming in here at about 25 dB over S9 on a relatively > stingy s- meter, hi hi! > > I hope we can get more AM ops on the air in Florida! > > Daytime condx on 7 MHz can be very fine out to a few hundred miles. > > Anyone else out there able to join the fun? > > 73 de AF4K > in Central FL > > > 75S1 receiver > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML > or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. > Please post in Plain-Text only.--- > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
