Hi Rein and all,
Ever since the ARRL QST magazine stopped publishing their propagation maps I
have used them on the Internet. See:
http://www.arrl.org/qst/propcharts/2006/12/mid.pdf
For those of us with dipoles, 20 meters here in Texas opens up (locally)
between about 11am and 4pm local time , since we are at the bottom of the
sun spot cycle. This translates to a possible (local) opening from 17 to 22
UTC. The propagation chart only has between 12 and 14 UTC as a possible
time for a DX contact between mid-USA and Western Europe.
We can consider making a sched. I would suggest that we cheat and use IM or
MSN messenger to chat during the attempts. That way one person can transmit
and the other can look on his waterfall for a signal, and we can alternate
the tasks of transmitting and listening. The immediate feedback would help
tremendously if we have propagation. Right now it appears fruitless to
monitor several frequencies for hours at a time pinging away, when you don't
know if you are heard, or whether the other station is even on the same
frequency. Right now we have not made a first NA-NA, but EU-NA is still
possible.
If you have a state of the art propagation tool, the better propagation
predictions would help even more.
Regards,
Steve Pituch, W2MY
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From: pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rein Couperus PA0R
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:23 AM
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I have been running the ORION on 14077.000 during the night, but no sign of
any PSK125 signal.
Pity, I would have liked to make a first EU-NA.
Rein PA0R
BTW, the first AF-EU is by 5A7A...PI4TUE, Nov.28 2006.
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