I'm guessing the cold weather is good for DX. Yesterday around 11:00 AM, I turned on the Base and all of a sudden Chicago 143 on 36 lsb sounded like he was in my driveway. I hit him on low and had a great contact for 2-3 minutes and then he was gone. Funny weather,
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Cold weather contact
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Cold weather contact
AKA Southwind,Tripple Nickel, DX 555. Base station Uniden Washington Philippines made/ D-104 Tug 9/ Silver Streak 150/ Pyramid Gold Series Variable 26 amp through "Old Reliable Shakespeare Big Stick"... Mobile- Cobra 25, NMO Firestik. USAF 1959-1963/ Andrews AFB, 1001st Transportation Squadron, Maryland, home of AIR FORCE ONE. John F. Kennedy Presidential Innaguration parade 1961.
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That's just cold.
Been cold here, but conditions are dead
Been cold here, but conditions are dead
\m/ >.< \m/
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Cletus your just going to have to create an ionizing antenna to overcome all that influx.