Post by thelegacy on Aug 21, 2017 15:30:36 GMT
It is now Monday the 21st of August and the time is 11:21 a.m. As you may know the eclipse will definitely have an effect on radio reception today. I have already seen some serious band opening around 6.927 megahertz today.
Scanning the all-too-familiar famous frequency for pirate shortwave operation I got down to 6.925 megahertz and heard a nice clear signal. The signal does have some very fast fade in and outs. So far the station has not identified with any moniker or call sign although we know that it is what it is.
7.100 megahertz all the way up to around 7.15 is a bustle with all sorts of CW. 7.185 and 7200 KHz or 7.200 Mhz has Dave from South Carolina working in a lot of stations and making Cassell's. I did hear some other stations in there and though I don't have a beat fo4 sideband I can still sort of make out what they are saying. This is a lot of fun there is a lot of folks working the bands today.
Now for the fun of it I started turning around at 13.5 60 megahertz. And wouldn't you know I did hear a signal. It was a carrier I didn't hear much audio on it. Tuning up and down the dial though there is quite a bit of activity. Getting closer to 13 megahertz there's all sorts of ham radio activity in that area as well.
Even FM radio seems to have a more of an open band as I started to scan around the dial. 99.9 of course I got that Maryland station coming in playing country called Froggy 99.9. I also noticed they stationed at about 104.1 megahertz which was from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This station was coming in on usually clear today.
I am pretty excited because I do believe that within a half an hour around 12 p.m. I will go back outside again with the radio and see what I get as noontime is supposed to be when the eclipse is starting to come in. This should really have an effect and already I'm seeing it on the dial. Actually when I got up this morning at around 5:30 just for a brief time I did scan am at 1630 kilohertz and I did find that the sports station from Augusta Georgia was coming in quite clearly. This was quite unusual as well so already the bands are starting to show signs of increased DX capability.
I suggest that everybody get out there and work some DX. Even if you're a c b r you could have some fun shooting skip during this time. It's not going to take a whole lot of power even a good radio running at the stock 4 or 5 a.m. and 12 Watts pep sideband can do wonders. Remember that it is now legal to shoot skip on CB so make the best of it. If you thought about getting a radio you could get one even if it's one of those CB handy Takis. You might be able to pick one up for like 20 or 30 bucks. Get one go outside and have fun with it.
I don't know if anyone has ever tried to work skip on the FRS channels but that would be fun to do to. As far as I know it's not illegal to do that so I don't see why not.
Scanning the all-too-familiar famous frequency for pirate shortwave operation I got down to 6.925 megahertz and heard a nice clear signal. The signal does have some very fast fade in and outs. So far the station has not identified with any moniker or call sign although we know that it is what it is.
7.100 megahertz all the way up to around 7.15 is a bustle with all sorts of CW. 7.185 and 7200 KHz or 7.200 Mhz has Dave from South Carolina working in a lot of stations and making Cassell's. I did hear some other stations in there and though I don't have a beat fo4 sideband I can still sort of make out what they are saying. This is a lot of fun there is a lot of folks working the bands today.
Now for the fun of it I started turning around at 13.5 60 megahertz. And wouldn't you know I did hear a signal. It was a carrier I didn't hear much audio on it. Tuning up and down the dial though there is quite a bit of activity. Getting closer to 13 megahertz there's all sorts of ham radio activity in that area as well.
Even FM radio seems to have a more of an open band as I started to scan around the dial. 99.9 of course I got that Maryland station coming in playing country called Froggy 99.9. I also noticed they stationed at about 104.1 megahertz which was from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This station was coming in on usually clear today.
I am pretty excited because I do believe that within a half an hour around 12 p.m. I will go back outside again with the radio and see what I get as noontime is supposed to be when the eclipse is starting to come in. This should really have an effect and already I'm seeing it on the dial. Actually when I got up this morning at around 5:30 just for a brief time I did scan am at 1630 kilohertz and I did find that the sports station from Augusta Georgia was coming in quite clearly. This was quite unusual as well so already the bands are starting to show signs of increased DX capability.
I suggest that everybody get out there and work some DX. Even if you're a c b r you could have some fun shooting skip during this time. It's not going to take a whole lot of power even a good radio running at the stock 4 or 5 a.m. and 12 Watts pep sideband can do wonders. Remember that it is now legal to shoot skip on CB so make the best of it. If you thought about getting a radio you could get one even if it's one of those CB handy Takis. You might be able to pick one up for like 20 or 30 bucks. Get one go outside and have fun with it.
I don't know if anyone has ever tried to work skip on the FRS channels but that would be fun to do to. As far as I know it's not illegal to do that so I don't see why not.
