Sorry I missed you Todd. I must have just stepped out of the room after signing with W5KGZ in Beaumont before you called.
I noticed there was a major x-ray flare that occurred sometime yesterday. This may have had some effect on what you were hearing there. I know the band went long here about 6:30 local time, but was gradually coming back by the time I signed with KGZ. Hardly any signals on the band last night as you noted... 73 Brian w5ami On 12/5/06, Todd, KA1KAQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Managed to get on 75 for a bit last night and had a good conversation with Paul, W9PJ in Illinois. The band was amazingly quiet overall, so the lack of activity was a bit surprising. While the band seemed long, I was hearing Steve WA1QIX quite strong up here as well. But the really odd thing was the fading on signals. At times it was like the ocean coming and going like waves, other times it was a really fast fading that caused the needle on the S-meter to bounce 2-3 units to and fro wildly. But for most of the night it was a slow, steady 'whump.....whump.....whump'. I've never seen the band maintain this for a long period of time before. Maybe 10-15 minutes, half an hour at most. Heard Brian W5AMI coming in loud and clear, so I fired up the xmtr but not in time to catch him. He said something about it being cold down there. The WX Channel had mentioned that the former home of his 1937 xmtr got down to -2F Sunday night/Monday morning. That's even cold for up here in early December. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
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