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Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Tue Oct 22, 2024 6:09 pm
I'm running horizontal for all my HF activity including 11m but then those signals can bounce off the ionosphere at any polarisation. (Verticals tend to be favoured for low take off angle but similar properties can be found with horizontal antennas.) The only issue I have is with 'local' signals as they're usually running vertical antennas but not an issue with 'skip'.
Then again my antenna is too low for 40m and lower being NVIS in nature down there but doesn't stop me banging into the USA or Caribbean on the old greyline.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Tue Oct 22, 2024 6:43 pm
Will be on the radio tomorrow, all day, catch you tomorrow hopefully Victor.
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Wed Oct 23, 2024 4:47 am
I shall keep an eye on propagation conditions Glenn.
I've got a few CT members in my Ham logs now but not too many on CB so here's hoping we catch each other.
73
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John123 CT Directors
Call Sign : 26CT763 Posts : 4635 Times Thanked : 166 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Manchester Equipment Used : Optima, Superstar 360fm, Stalker 9fdx, President Jack Age : 51
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:50 pm
I installed my new acquired President Mckinley 2 (fully opened up) and Sirio 145 antenna for mobile applications (still got the 4000 for static-mobile). I managed to work into 2 Div Arkansas whilst mobile and SWL'd a station in London working Florida and New York State. I could hear both sides of the conversation, too.
A bit more tidying up of the installation required and fine tuning of the antenna and radio settings.
73s John.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:38 am
Great to hear about your new President rig there John and sounds like it's giving the goods.
I didn't get much time on air as tending a pretty awful cold at the mo then away from the radio room awaiting on parcels. (One of which was a little new radio for me. )
Did hear 14 division FM/EU later in the day like they were locals on this new little rig (Jopix PT-31) so looks like conditions were ripe yesterday. Looking forward to a little bit of 11m fun with this rig that's so tiny it could almost fall into the cracks of one of the bigger sets!
73, Victor
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glenn dog Major contributor
Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:53 am
Hello, Victor, Tuesday morning, tooth ache started, so was not on the radio, visited the Dentist, all OK now, on the radio today
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:59 am
Ooh, sorry to hear there Glenn. Glad the dentist trip sorted you out.
Here's hoping conditions are favourable again for some good DX.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:30 pm
Hello, Uk Now strong into North Finland
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:23 pm
Bit of a mish-mash mess this way today, Euro chatter AM/FM in and out, SSB not as good as recent days (when I mostly missed it!) and strangely someone sending SSTV on 27.701 a little while ago.
I hope everyone else fared better. (The day's not done yet so I'll persist a bit more. )
Happy this new little rig picks up as well as the main rigs on the quickly knocked together inverted V.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:27 pm
Loosing the skip now
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Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:40 pm
Dropped right off this way too Glenn. (Just a few big-gun Italians.)
I will catch you on the bands one of these days!
73
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Call Sign : 26CT763 Posts : 4635 Times Thanked : 166 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Manchester Equipment Used : Optima, Superstar 360fm, Stalker 9fdx, President Jack Age : 51
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:08 pm
Hello Victor and Glenn,
Cheers, Victor. I am well pleased with it. Very compact and feels well built. The receive sounds good on all modes.
Hope you feel better soon.
The Jopix looks like a cool little radio. It is amazing how compact modern rigs are. My CRT Sace U is comically small and makes good power for such a small radio. Ideal for modern motors.
Take it easy, Buddy.
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John123 CT Directors
Call Sign : 26CT763 Posts : 4635 Times Thanked : 166 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Manchester Equipment Used : Optima, Superstar 360fm, Stalker 9fdx, President Jack Age : 51
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:10 pm
The skip was banging in, when I left work this evening. It was flat later on, apart from the Superbowl.
73s John.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sat Oct 26, 2024 9:22 am
Skip booming in to Finland this morning.
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Call Sign : 13-CT-139 Posts : 57 Times Thanked : 3 Join date : 2023-12-13 QTH or Location : Neustadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-891, Gainmaster 5/8
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sat Oct 26, 2024 11:25 pm
I've spent most of the day exploring the options on my new Yaesu FT-891 radio. I was in for a huge shock when I saw the menu, it’s like a spaceship compared to a regular CB radio. Working with all those filters, noise-free, is a real pleasure.
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glenn dog Major contributor
Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:00 am
Very active 11m band this morning.
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Posts : 105 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2024-09-01 QTH or Location : England Equipment Used : All sorts
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:23 am
It looked liked a nice morning for the skip today here in London. I got the radio setup but its all silent, nothing at all. It might pick up later.
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Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:36 am
Victor wrote:
I'm running horizontal for all my HF activity including 11m but then those signals can bounce off the ionosphere at any polarisation. (Verticals tend to be favoured for low take off angle but similar properties can be found with horizontal antennas.) The only issue I have is with 'local' signals as they're usually running vertical antennas but not an issue with 'skip'.
Then again my antenna is too low for 40m and lower being NVIS in nature down there but doesn't stop me banging into the USA or Caribbean on the old greyline.
I'm glad the horizontal is working well for you.
I always wondered about horizontal on 11 meters as everybody uses vertical but I guess it doesn't really matter with DX. I'm quite compromised where I am so I can live with horizontal all day long.
Local FM isn't that interesting so it doesn't matter too much about not being able to go vertical.
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Posts : 105 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2024-09-01 QTH or Location : England Equipment Used : All sorts
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:47 am
10m has started opening up plenty of stations coming through but not so much on 11m right now.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 8:58 am
UK FM 27/81 This Sunday morning i am once again getting the UK Midlands area very good signals.
John123 CT Directors
Call Sign : 26CT763 Posts : 4635 Times Thanked : 166 Join date : 2019-06-27 QTH or Location : Manchester Equipment Used : Optima, Superstar 360fm, Stalker 9fdx, President Jack Age : 51
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:37 pm
Hello All,
11m wide open today. I heard a Scottish expat located in Dallas, Texas. I tried shouting back, until he gave his working conditions. A three element beam, 1kw and a Yaesu FTDX10..... I quickly decided I was 'urinating into a prevailing wind' with my 20w into a mobile whip. Lol.
I was struggling to make contact, despite hearing lots of stations, so, I 'poured some coal on the fire' in form of my KL203 amp. It did the trick, with contacts into the Americas, Southern and Eastern Europe.
73s and good dx.
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Posts : 105 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2024-09-01 QTH or Location : England Equipment Used : All sorts
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Mon Oct 28, 2024 6:03 am
I do about 12 watts SSB which is about all I can do without the SWR peaking with the antenna being indoors plus I have to be mindful about coming out through my neighbors TV speakers so low power for me and I still get all over the place. It was all mostly Europe today I didn't hear much American stations at all. One problem I have is when I put my call sign out and three other stations go right over the top of me at the same time so it can be a challenge to be heard being the weakest station out there. I'm just happy to finally be able to make contacts on some form of HF because I was beginning to lose hope that it would be possible given my situation.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Mon Oct 28, 2024 7:37 am
Good morning, France and Holland so far this morning.
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Tue Oct 29, 2024 7:34 am
Good morning from Finland , Oulu Town, French speaking skip so far .
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Call Sign : 56-CT-004 Posts : 589 Times Thanked : 13 Join date : 2019-08-23 QTH or Location : Oulu -Finland Equipment Used : ft-450d-mc kinley - cobra 19dxeu- lincoln+2 - superstar lord - grant 2 - tti hand held- alan42- crt mike cb - zodiac 68 hunting radio hand held- and few PMR 2
Subject: Re: 11m conditions Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:41 am
27.495 usb div 26 to div 3 i could copy both stations many calling in, just could not get 2 way with div3
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