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August 30th, 2010 by kmack

Back in 1964 as a novice, it seemed like the strongest signals I heard in Central Indiana were the Florida stations. Man, seemed like they were always there, louder than anything else. As a new ham and teenager, I always thought how cool it would be to live in Florida, the land of fantastic propagation.

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Sure been disappointing lately… the bands are noisy, the thunderstorms consistent and sometimes it seems like no one else is on the air. What happened to my Florida ham radio paradise dream?

Are the bands working elsewhere? Boy, we have had some poor conditions lately. How about you?

On a high note (pun intended) it was pretty cool to watch QRPSPOTS.COM yesterday as lots of hams helped give signal reports to the Iowa High Altitude Balloon launched by W0OTM team! Congrats on creating some excitement and interesting reports. Now, if I can just get my antenna up to 30,000 feet or more, maybe my FL QTH will be ham radio paradise after all.

72,

Kelly K4UPG PB #173

3 Responses

K3NG writes:
August 30th, 20105:35 pmat

6 meters has been dead as a doornail It just ran out of gas a few weeks ago. Considering how well it was going earlier in the season, I thought it would still be going strong now….
Mike Weir writes:
August 31st, 20106:32 amat

Good morning Kelly, Have not been on much this week been tied up with work so far. I have heard from other bloggers that 17m is not doing so bad. One side note…never heard of QRPSPOT.COM checked it out and for me a tool worth bookmarking. I hope to get my KX1 into action this weekend and for sure will use QRPSPOT.
kmack writes:
August 31st, 20107:56 amat

Hi Mike! You will enjoy QRPSPOTS.COM as it is a fun tool. You can send spots via a cell phone using Twitter and they post there and on the FISTS/QRP spotting list run by K3UK too. There is a way to use email to spot too if you have an internet enabled cell phone. Sure is a good way to stir up some action and help others find our peanut whistle signals.

72,
Kelly K4UPG PB #173