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I had luck enough to make a couple of contacts last weekend, but since then the bands seem to have dug a hole, crawled in, and pulled the hole in behind them. I can't hear *anything* out there except for a few squeals of heterodyne and a lot of hash. Even if my antenna was a two-foot piece of rebar, I'd expect to at least HEAR things even if I couldn't get out more than a block, but I'm not hearing diddly.

So my question is, did I blow out the front end or something? I checked the band conditions and last night they were practically zero across the board. I think 30 had a "4" or something, but the rest were flat at the bottom. I suppose the website could be broken, too, so I'm still going to ask if anyone else has been hearing anything worth mentioning, or have I built a wonderful radio and some nice antennage just in time for the bands to die like a squirrel on a six-lane highway?

Never fails. If I buy a raffle ticket, the Monsignor wins the Cadillac.

73,
Gwen NG3P

what mode?? what bands?
Lately I've been working mostly digital on 30m and 20m with a little 17m and 15m sprinkled in for variety because I can do that and work my day job.? While all the bands do seem worse than a month or so ago they are far from dead.
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Always signals on CW & FT8 tho.?
I'm working on my code ahead again and FT8 is a no brainer. 73, Bo W4GHV since '54

Doug,

We are experiencing a solar storm right now and band conditions are bad but not completely gone. Yesterday I threw a cheapo 10 meter rig in my car and a Mag mount on the roof and worked a special event station at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA in the LA area of southern California on 28.400 while on my way to Dr's appointment. About two hours later I could still hear the guy calling CQ, This on a paltry 7 watts out. When I got home I checked into the Noon Time Net on 7.285.5 on the west coast of the US on 5 watts, got a 57 signal report. Even later in the day I checked into the Maritime net on 14.300 using my FT-817ND running 5 watts, and last night I checked into the YL System net on 7.245 using my uBitx and a EFHW antenna laying on top of my roof. So, while the band does indeed suck it's not impossible to make contacts. Just keep trying, it will get better. BTW, I strictly run QRP.

Joel
N6ALT

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:38 am, Joel Caulkins wrote:

Doug,

We are experiencing a solar storm right now and band conditions are bad but not completely gone.

I wasn't complaining at all.? Just sharing my recent experience with the original poster.
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Sorry Doug,

Got you confused with the OP.

Joel
N6ALT

A while back 20m was almost dead for me.? Thought it could be the band conditions.? I live in a mobile home park and my antenna is 2 pairs of ham-stick type mobile antennas set up as 2 dipoles.? One pair for 20m and one pair for 40 meters mounted 90 degrees from each other 16' up on a paint pole.?? A single coax feeds a T fitting to the lower antenna, 40m, and then up to a 90 fitting feeding the 20m.? My top 90 went bad.? The moral of my story is if the band seems dead the check the antenna.? 20m was flat lined on my Youkits Analyzer.
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