11m conditions

Good luck, Ian.

The 115 is a network chaired by Charlie Tango member StevieG 26 CT 3239 I think he may also use a Lima Radio on the net.
It’s on everyday 27.115 LSB on the mids from about 7pm.Great group of lads and with a wealth of information and always willing to help.Numerous times I’ve been chatting to someone in London one minute then somewhere across Europe the next,That’s the good thing with a net being at a set time and frequency daily as it’s always visited and you never know where the next QSK or Breako Breako could be from.

Tom as always your a mine of good info, have saved this one into the Icom, hopefully one evening i will be the break station !!!

Regards Ady

Hi Ady,With the conditions being as they are now I’m sure it won’t be long until QSK 14 CT 014 will be heard on the net.
Hopefully speak soon.
Tom.
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Looking forward to that mate..

Ady

Strong opening right now between here and Poland, Russia, and also Portugal (which is not same direction, so not sure what's going on up in the clouds).

Same here Neal, stations 20+ but skipping all over the place!

Scotland one second, Northern Ireland the next, Poland, Holland, Italy you name it!!

Unfortunately one of those openings that so far is proving too skittish to get a solid contact.

Will keep trying whilst it's sort of open. Best of luck.

Had a nice quick qso with a SOTA station a hundred of so miles to the south of me on 27mhz, he was a superb 59+ and he gave me a 55.
Then again my house is not situated a 1912m ASL !!!!

Hope you all enjoyed your radios today...........

Regards Ady

Managed some radio time while out in the workshop this afternoon..

44 Tony,Florida and 133 Tennessee gave me the wave on 27.385lsb and many more North American stations heard..
Super bowl very loud..

Hour of 2 div heard this afternoon,nothing above s5 but top end of mid band active....Super bowl less so

Saturday morning’s DX was the usual 116 Division’s Turkey on Mid’s Fm 27.205 upwards to Channel 27.305Mhz,This has been a regular morning thing for the last week or so.Then on the high band USB,50 Divisions in Volgograd mother Russia.My god you should hear the signals as they must be using some Ex army radio equipment.Then mostly other bits and pieces of DX this morning as the Propagation seemed to be less stable and no Inter G heard whatsoever.1 SA 156 Venice,18 SD 102 Athens and 14 EK 181 Toulouse all before midday and that was it until 9pm as I sit here listening to the sounds of silence.Have a great weekend all the SFI is on the way up 90+.
Cheers Tom.
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777 Tampa bay Florida worked on 27.385 lsb at 2.40pm...plenty of shout backs on the Super bowl too...busy hour into the states.

British Colombia and Arizona both low on 385 lsb 20 mins ago..been a while since I've heard West USA and West Canada,far too low for a qso but there's hope for this autumn and winter.

Seems like the conditions were really good this weekend,Had family stuff to do today but still managed a few cheeky QSO’s
315 LT 172,315 GI 115 Ukrain and wagon wheel 1541 North Carolina on the super bowl this afternoon.I hope this continues tomorrow as I may have missed out..
Cheers Tom.
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Mondays skip was even better then the weekend.50 division Russian in the morning then home in the evening to numerous 2 divisions on 27.385 LSB mostly in the South and North Carolina’s.With the better QSO’s being 2WWS 612 and 9 WR 50 Canada.Lastly 3 AT 282 (Hello again Dettto) and then it all faded out at 9.30pm but I’m not complaining.
Let’s see what this evening brings as I’ve already spoken to 116 divisions before breakfast..
Cheers Tom.
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Arrived in work this morning at 4am, low and behold the Sfi at 101...

Toms going to be happy me thinks
Will have a listen on 11/10m this evening

Regards to all Ady

Ady that’s so true I’m only here in spirit abc can’t wait to get home..lol
SFI 105 now..
Tom 26 CT 4029

Working in the garage at the moment, flicked on the old Icom 706 and listening to an 9J2 station in Lusaka!!!! On 28.479 SSB....

CUL Ady

Rushed home and heard the tail end of 2 divisions as it faded out on 27.385 LSB,Called a few times on the Super Bowl Am to sadly no reply.So I’m sitting it out on the T5 until I’ve had enough of white noise or the occasional local calling ‘Check Check 1-2)..lol
Roll on tomorrow Tom.
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Looks like you're in the same sort of situation as me Tom. Rarely get to do much radio during the main part of the day during the week because of work. Get home and catch tail ends of conditions and read about others' successes. I get genuinely excited and am very interested in reading about contacts others make during the day, but do still get pangs of jealousy that I can't join in

Did actually pop home at lunch to feed and take the dog out as my better half is on a 12 a hour shift. Put the radios on for literally 2 mins before I had to head back. During that time signals were romping in to here from south east Europe.. Greece, Turkey, with 1 divs in the mix too.

Not wishing my life away, but... roll on the weekend!

Your so right SangueG,But we certainly look forward to weekends and Bank holidays.
Once solar Cycle 25 really kicks in I don’t think air time will be a problem.We’re be talking to Singapore at 12 watts on a Thursday evening.
Things come to those who what and all that..
Cheers Tom.
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Fingers crossed! It's possible. Back in the day my friend and I made an Aussie contact on his Stalker IX, barefoot into a 1/2 wave silver rod, and his house was at the bottom of a hill surrounded by houses too. It wouldn't be fun if it was like that 24/7/365, but I do look forward to the conditions improving.

I have heard reports of 43div being worked in the UK over the last couple of days, chaps. Things are definitely on the up and up.

Fantastic John,I’d love to work Australia.
Most morning in London I get 116 Div.on Mids Fm and 50 Div.Russia on Mids AM.And a Spanish woman which might be a Cab office somewhere in spain..lol
The Propagation seems too be better in the Autumn/winter?
Tomorrow at lunch I’ll be sat in the car up a big hill,Trying to make my first QSO Stateside while mobile if not I could always order a cab..
Cheers Tom.
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 Yes John that's correct, 43 Div is shown to be worked via Big Gun 26/14 Div on cluster DX at the moment.
I was Hearing VK stations early in the morning on 20m but not on 10/11 as yet. The bands are very active..

kilomike wrote:

I was Hearing VK stations early in the morning on 20m but not on 10/11 as yet. The bands are very active..

They are there even on 10m, the problem is FT8, many are junkies for this mode, it has made Dxing easy... TOO Easy.
if you look there are openings...

Ady