Central Texas Ducting will be strong this week

[blantonl]

Folks, the weather is perfect for ducting across all of Texas this week. Thursday and Friday look great. High pressure, moist soil to cool the evening temps.

This morning, I logged quite a few Starnet sites, and also received loud and clear the Montgomery County TX and Harris ISD EDACS systems loud and clear into San Antonio. Galveston County TX TRS was also fullt quieting for over 2 hours this morning.

Fun stuff!

 

[peterjmag]

It's the same up here in Oklahoma. I have heard OKC stations from here in Tulsa and even picked up the Wichita, KS 800 site from here as well. Ducting is really fun to listen to in the summer and you never know what you might hear. I like listening to the distant NOAA weather radio broadcasts on a good night. The other night I heard Wichita Falls and DFW. Pretty neat stuff.

P.J. Maguire

 

[kkn50]

I was on the beach in Port Aransas early this morning -- very strong signals coming in on a Yaesu handheld. Extremely good ducting on VHF along the coast.

 

[Larryincc]

Great ducting this morning, but I was at the Harbormaster's office in Corpus Christi on business and the radio traffic from the Houston Ship Channel was driving the local Vessel Traffic Managers in the office crazy. Happens every time. Local Corpus Christi Ship Pilots have to set their radio's squelch so high that they have a hard time picking up local traffic.

 

[GlacierClipper]

Interesting scanning the bands and making logbook entries! The lower frequencies were shouting late last night and today, especially the shortwave bands. Listened to several airline pilots doing radio checks with Gander, Newfoundland and Azores working with a KC-135 tanker in route to Rhien Main Air Base in Germany.

That guy in LA "Lower Alabama" on CB Channel 6 was really clearing the CB this morning, bleeding channels on both sides of the Channel 6!

 

[mwjones]

Folks, the weather is perfect for ducting across all of Texas this week. Thursday and Friday look great. High pressure, moist soil to cool the evening temps.

I found a site a year or two ago, that is pretty good at predicting ducting, and it's updated daily.

http://www.iprimus.ca/~hepburnw/tropo.html

I was using it for upper 800MHz through lower 900MHz for most of 2003 on some data telemetry while in Kansas City, and could a number of times pick up radios near Springfield, MO and Tulsa. Most of these were 35W radios with +6db omni sticks at 20ft, coming in on my +3db discone on RG-8 at 35ft. I even once had radios report in from near Denver and Fort Madison, IA. My normal daytime reception was about 10-15 miles around the house.

Too bad I'm in a first floor apartment here in Houston. No good place to put the antennas up.

Mike Jones
Houston Texas

 

[GlacierClipper]

Thurdsay morning ducting on the Shortwave Bands listening to several unknown ships off the coast of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Excellent English speaking radio operators. Working 4626 khz USB (Upperside Band). The British and U.S. Navy operate out of Diego Garcia, they have a shared base on the Island.

Excellent signal here in Tulsa, OK!

Where in the World Is Diego Garcia?

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/dg.html