HF BANDS Open
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Must be due to field day this weekend.
Yes your correct, there is a field going on tonight.
Saint
For me HF as been bad since winter, even ft8 is not very good.
Got on last night for about 20 minutes. Between 5 and 7 Mhz, signals were booming in loud and clear. Some of the strongest signals pegging my s meter. Most max it out.
The Bands seem to be getting better for me at night, but they are still not that good, I get nothing in the day time in the Amateur Radio Bands.
Saint
Decided to get up with the other half. She gets up around 3:30 for work. Not the greatest conditions this morning. Had allot better luck last night around 9PM.
Same here, basically. Nothing like it should be with the Solar Cycle at or near its peak. Even 80M is mostly dead most times I check it, aside from maybe a couple hard to read QSOs. And static crashes aren't anything like they were in the past, even on my older, non-DSP radios that don't have the better noise reduction characteristics. The ionosphere just isn't reflecting that terrifically right now.
It should pick up by late summer, early fall, I suppose.
Last night I turned on around 8:30. Banging strong again. 5 through 9 MHz was blasting my needle again. Scanned through 30 MHz. Not much above 13 Mhz.
The bands seem to be getting better the last several day down my way with the setup I have, Around 8:00 pm my time I start listening.
Steve
Pretty good conditions last night around 8:30. Not as good as past night but some frequencies were burying my s needle. Hams were coming in strong between 3 and 5 MHz. Have a new antenna coming in soon. Hoping it’s better than my wire I’m using now.
I dialed across the bands last night. MUF here was like 8 MHz. 40 to 160 was dead as a doornail, nothing then just below
5 MHz WWV a megawatt broadcast, another just above 10 MHz otherwise nothing at all.
I think I will check my antenna tomorrow.
5 MHz WWV a megawatt broadcast, another just above 10 MHz otherwise nothing at all.
I think I will check my antenna tomorrow.
About three hours ago I checked the ham and SWBC bands.... New Zealand was in on 9700. Not much else. Two or three barely legible LSB QSO's on 40. Rest of it was dead. One CW QSO on 40 that finished up when I tuned in. Rest of 40M CW was dead. 30M was dead. 80M had one LSB QSO that was in the static and unreadable. Traces of possible Chinese broadcast stations trying to poke through perhaps on the 31M band but not much, really.
Earlier today RNZI was in reasonably on the 16 Meter band, and they were in really well the afternoon previous (17675 kHz). That is, during the afternoon here in the NW US.
I think the high bands may be trying to pick up, but since the end of winter most of the band above 20M have been dead nearly any time I've checked them, with a few rare exceptions.
X-ray flux is slowly increasing, bringing better conditions in the higher bands recently, but a slight geomagnetic storm interfered yesterday.
A coronal hole will be facing Earth this weekend, bringing geomagnetic disturbances early next week.
99% probability for C-class flares, 50% for M-class, and 5% for X-class. A large, high-latitude sunspot group is exiting, while a smaller, but complex, low-latitude group is approaching. Without any further development in the complexity, a few days of better than recent conditions may be in store.
A coronal hole will be facing Earth this weekend, bringing geomagnetic disturbances early next week.
99% probability for C-class flares, 50% for M-class, and 5% for X-class. A large, high-latitude sunspot group is exiting, while a smaller, but complex, low-latitude group is approaching. Without any further development in the complexity, a few days of better than recent conditions may be in store.
Not very good last night. Some of these bible pumpers are cranking out some serious power. One in the 4 Mhz range was pegging me so hard there was bleed over close to other transmissions. Used to get asia in the 9 Mhz range awhile back but nothing in the last couple months.
That was probably WWCR from Tennessee. Their transmitters are all 100kw.
They were one of them. Just blasting the air waves. There are a couple others doing the same thing.
Unfortunately they are all over the place.
Yes, The Amateur Radio bands were in terrible shape down my way with my HF setup, Tried to listen to the 80 meter band but all the conversations were in or near the background noise. The other bands were not worth trying to listen to. Hope today is different.
Saint
Saint
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