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Originally Posted By Redbirdxx: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/461668/7114_png-2066036.JPG Anyone seeing/hearing similar in their area? Not here. We'll test 20M in just about 10 minutes and go from there. I'm guessing 20M will be better based on what I saw earlier. |
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Originally Posted By seek2: Had great copy on redbird on 20M but I don't think anyone is hearing me very well. I heard you but you were marginal. I tried to send back but I seem to have some sort of RF feedback issue on 20 meters with my normal 72' wire. Knocked out my USB ports again. May not be able to do it tonight. |
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I'm shutting down. Storms in the area are making a mess of my reception and they're getting close enough I should probably unplug some stuff, anyway. edit, right as I was getting ready to shut down Mach came through pretty strong, then I caught Nmbmxr"s response at +5. No copy on NC |
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Originally Posted By seek2: Doesn't look like any of you are copying me very well but are getting NMBMXER ok... You want to NC NMBMXER? |
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Originally Posted By seek2: My photons just don't want to go east tonight for some reason. Originally Posted By seek2: Originally Posted By Mach: had you 100% ghost copy seek My photons just don't want to go east tonight for some reason. The hurricane sucked all the photons out to sea it's science yo |
Mach
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Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: Net closed tonight with 5 check-ins including NCS. Thank you all. I like 7120, I propose we move until the jamming subsides. I'm cool with that. We're still 5KHz away from the digital band edge. There might be some broadcast interference at some point but it's coming up as somali rather than south american, which helps. |
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Originally Posted By seek2: I'm cool with that. We're still 5KHz away from the digital band edge. There might be some broadcast interference at some point but it's coming up as somali rather than south american, which helps. |
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Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: You have a lot lower noise floor than me. I just run the 7300 at full tilt so everyone can hear me lol It's funny I dreamed of having a lower noise floor forever, and once I got to the promised land I realized it's a recipe for disappointment... or big time QRO. Even with all the grounding work I've done at the new place there's enough RF issues I'm unwilling to run the full 500W. |
Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: It's funny I dreamed of having a lower noise floor forever, and once I got to the promised land I realized it's a recipe for disappointment... or big time QRO. Even with all the grounding work I've done at the new place there's enough RF issues I'm unwilling to run the full 500W. Originally Posted By seek2: Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: You have a lot lower noise floor than me. I just run the 7300 at full tilt so everyone can hear me lol It's funny I dreamed of having a lower noise floor forever, and once I got to the promised land I realized it's a recipe for disappointment... or big time QRO. Even with all the grounding work I've done at the new place there's enough RF issues I'm unwilling to run the full 500W. what kind of RF issues? |
Mach
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Originally Posted By Mach: what kind of RF issues? Absolutely freaks out any touchpads I use, and I start having rig control problems. At the new place I did everything by the book as well, grounds are bonded, I have real ground panel where all the coax comes in, etc. I suspect the real issue is simply the antenna is about 120 feet away and is a ground mount vertical and I'm in the near field. Interestingly when I first moved here I did a temporary elevated 40M wire vertical with 2 elevated radials, bottom of the antenna was probably about 12 feet up, and of course no ground radials. I had zero issues with that setup at any power level, other than very legitimate concerns about starting a forest fire using bone-dry trees as supports. |
Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: Absolutely freaks out any touchpads I use, and I start having rig control problems. At the new place I did everything by the book as well, grounds are bonded, I have real ground panel where all the coax comes in, etc. I suspect the real issue is simply the antenna is about 120 feet away and is a ground mount vertical and I'm in the near field. Interestingly when I first moved here I did a temporary elevated 40M wire vertical with 2 elevated radials, bottom of the antenna was probably about 12 feet up, and of course no ground radials. I had zero issues with that setup at any power level, other than very legitimate concerns about starting a forest fire using bone-dry trees as supports. Originally Posted By seek2: Originally Posted By Mach: what kind of RF issues? Absolutely freaks out any touchpads I use, and I start having rig control problems. At the new place I did everything by the book as well, grounds are bonded, I have real ground panel where all the coax comes in, etc. I suspect the real issue is simply the antenna is about 120 feet away and is a ground mount vertical and I'm in the near field. Interestingly when I first moved here I did a temporary elevated 40M wire vertical with 2 elevated radials, bottom of the antenna was probably about 12 feet up, and of course no ground radials. I had zero issues with that setup at any power level, other than very legitimate concerns about starting a forest fire using bone-dry trees as supports. yeah sounds like near field. My dipoles are over the house. at 800 watts I see the RF on the monitor, get USB interruptions, get wifi issues, chirp the smoke detectors, turn on and off air cleaners and my transmissions come out of the hifi speakers with the stereo off |
Mach
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Originally Posted By SteelonSteel: Would watering your ground prior going on the air help? Ground rods don’t work well dry from what i read. Your area would be dry i suppose. Spitballing  I've had about 14 inches of rain in the past 6 weeks and there's creeks within 100 yards on either side of the antenna flowing. It definitely makes for a better ground and more efficient antenna, but doesn't fix the RF inside. |
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I should be present to NC, weather permitting. The net this week is on 7120 KHz. Hopefully it's no an exercise in frustration. SFI is 84 and we've got 37 sunspots so prop might be a bit better this week. |
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First reminder out at 2302Z or so. 7120 KHz #2 out at 2315Z #3 out at 2330Z. Not trying 20M today. Also have 100% both ways to TX. Looking from IL as well. Might actually have a working net tonight, knock on wood. |
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I hate fldigi (and Trimode) so much. Ever since I started running the rig as a Winlink gateway it takes forever to figure out why fldigi won't talk to the radio when flrig works fine. Tune in flrig and it tunes, tune in fldigi and silence. I came in 10min before the net and the radio isn't cooperating. Might be late tonight. ETA: Had to restart the PC and stop trimode before it auto-booted and then on the 7300 go in a change the data mode to USB as trimode keeps changing it to ACC... |
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Finally decent propagation for the net! Five stations tonight, most hearing the others with 100% copy. Hopefully the SSN will keep climbing and prop will be better still. It's getting darker earlier which is helping 40M prop as well. |
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I should be present to NC tonight. No threat of storms so far, and we have 85 sunspots and a solar flux over 100, prop should be improved. ETA: But we're having some elevated geomagnetic activity... |
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Originally Posted By Redbirdxx: Copied the warning messages but flrig froze up when I went to tune and is now unresponsive. A reboot would probably solve it but I have too much other crap open on my computer to shut it down for this right now, so I'm out. At least I copied you pre-net, so it would have worked! |
Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I know some of you had QRM but man did your signals look good on my end tonight. Best I've seen in months. I saw a couple deep fades on NMBMXER, but still 100%. We had three check ins + a fourth heard pre-net tonight. Thanks for checking in. Hopefully conditions are better still for us next week. |
Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I should be present to NC tonight. Sunspot number is down to 13. Hopefully that doesn't impact prop too much. ETA: Remember we're on 7120 KHz tonight! ETA #2: First reminder out at 2300Z |
Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.