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Mike<p>I'm hearing frustrating bursts of voice on the 70MHz FM calling frequency - lots of flutter, but I'm convinced it's not a /M station. Whoever it is can't hear me. That's the joy &amp; frustration of the 4 metre band!</p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamRadio</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamRadio</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/70mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70mhz</span></a></p>
Mike<p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> sort of afternoon.<br>Pretty good conditions on 10m / 28MHz with strong North American stations although the QSB was also strong. </p><p>Got into the New York 10m repeater and made a couple of contacts. <br>I would have got into the London Ontario repeater but it was hogged by a couple of blokes talking politics for over an hour!<br>I resorted to <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/FT8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FT8</span></a> and got Kentucky, Sth Carolina &amp; Georgia before getting bored.</p><p>Still nothing heard on my new 4m / 70MHz handheld!</p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamRadio</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/28MHz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>28MHz</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/70MHz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70MHz</span></a></p>
ftg<p>RF section of a Motorola MC Micro for the 66-88MHz band. </p><p>This unit in particular needs some work before being put on the 4m band, due to it not actually working at the moment. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Motorola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Motorola</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/MCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MCMicro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70MHz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70MHz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/4m" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4m</span></a></p>
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL<p>But not the very center.<br><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70MHz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70MHz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sporadic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporadic</span></a></p>
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL<p>Last year <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70MHz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70MHz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/4mband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4mband</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sporadic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporadic</span></a> stats:<br> <br>$ wget <a href="https://dxrobot.gooddx.net/eskiplog70.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dxrobot.gooddx.net/eskiplog70.</span><span class="invisible">htm</span></a></p><p>$ cat Good\ DX\ -\ 70\ MHz\ E-skip\ in\ Europe.html | fgrep "ES&gt;" | awk '$3~/([A-Z][A-Z]?|[A-Z][0-9]|[0-9][A-Z])[0-9][A-Z]+/ {if ($NR&lt;3514) print $(NF-1)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr <br> 1634 Jun<br> 861 Jul<br> 265 Aug<br> 189 May<br> 23 Apr<br> 6 Sep<br> 1 Oct<br> 1 Mar<br> 1 Jan</p><p>Apparently, I should start sending stray CQs to probe conditions<br> (initally in FT8) in May.</p>
Dom HB9HLI<p>Good news ! <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70Mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70Mhz</span></a> band is open for <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamrado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamrado</span></a> in Switzerland (only HB9) from 1 janvier 2023. 👍<br><a href="https://www.uska.ch/fr/4m-band-in-der-schweiz-ab-1-jan-2023-freigegeben" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uska.ch/fr/4m-band-in-der-schw</span><span class="invisible">eiz-ab-1-jan-2023-freigegeben</span></a></p>
Carl G1VIF<p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> <br>Dad of three, living in West Yorkshire.<br>Licensed radio ham nearly 40 years.<br>Radio interests: <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/FT8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FT8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/dxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dxing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/DMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/DSTAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSTAR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/C4FM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C4FM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Hubnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hubnet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Allstar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Allstar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/HF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/scanners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scanners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/echolink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>echolink</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/peanut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peanut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/50mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/VHF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VHF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/UHF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UHF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/11m" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>11m</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/446mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>446mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sdr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/qrp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qrp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/antennas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antennas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adsb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70cm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70cm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/144mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>144mhz</span></a></p>
19WAC3067 ~ PA11343<p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/TowerTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/cbradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cbradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/27mc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>27mc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/SWL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SWL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/DX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamr</span></a></p><p>RT @InnovAntennas@twitter.com</p><p>One of our 2m low noise LFA Yagis above one of our 50/70MHz dualbanders <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/vhfdx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhfdx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/144mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>144mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/50mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a></p>
19WAC3067 ~ PA11343<p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/TowerTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TowerTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/cbradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cbradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/27mc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>27mc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/SWL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SWL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/DX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamr</span></a></p><p>RT @InnovAntennas@twitter.com</p><p>50MHz and 70MHz on the same 1.2m boom and single feed point <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/50mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>50mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/70mhz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70mhz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/vhfdx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vhfdx</span></a></p>