Don't worry.....pretty sure it was a solar storm.What little I could
hear last night was quite "warbley".Not having much luck this year.
73/72
Pete N2PG

I've been doing more operating this fall, getting back into QRP a
little bit. Tonight I realized it was Thursday, Fox Hunt night! And
I looked up the webpage on google to see what the schedule was.

I fired up my CW Howes 40 mtr, direct conversion rig right at 0200.
Soon I located Don NK6A near 7042. I listened closely, called many
times, and was rewarded with a pelt! Alright!

Now to find Dave. I wandered between 7030 and 7050 so many times I
cannot remember. I tried it with other receivers, only to conclude
that the Howes was actually doing a pretty good job. There just
wasn't much to hear. Sometimes I would get little snippets, as if the
whole world were talking but I was under a radio-blanket-cloud. I
heard a YY1 calling CQ, and an XE1 came in gangbusters for a minute
or two. I would get someone from 6-land or from 4-land for a little
bit. Toward the end I could hear Don NK6A still calling CQ FOX, with
no takers.

At 0355, a ghostly signal arose in the neighborhood of 7035. hn3bvd ?
I heard him send it a halfdozen times, getting a little piece each
time. I looked in my country list in the back of my logbook. HN3 is
Iraq? could it be? My pitiful 4 watts (on a good day) is not going
to make it to Iraq. But I switched the T/R and sent my call a few
times. When I switched back, he was gone. Nothing but static.

Chris
kc0atc

I moved my QRP rig from the workshop to my office/computer room and
re-installed my antenna in the attic. Transmitter tunes into the
antenna beautifully...near 1:1 SWR but I can't hear a thing! Did my
receiver die or is the solar storm flattening 40m??
=Lou W8LI=

I will not be able to take part in the hunt tonight as I am at work.
VE3XT is president of our local radio club, and it is meeting night tonight, so he might be on near the end of the hunt.
I will look for you all next week when I am on dayshift.
I am in the process of getting the rig and antennas set up on the truck, so I can take part in the hunts from work when I get time.

Good Luck
Fred
VE3Fal
Great Lakers Fox Hunt Team

The following information from:

www.dxlc.com/solar

may be of interest to those planning to hunt foxii tonight:

The geomagnetic field was at active to extremely severe storm levels
on November 10. Solar wind speed ranged between 551 and 903 km/sec.
The planetary A index reached the maximum attainable value of 400
for the 06-09h UTC interval, only two days after the last time this
disturbance level was reached. For the 24 hour period starting at
15h UTC on November 9 and ending at 15h UTC on November 10 the
planetary A index was 227 (based on preliminary data). Based on NGDC
data the current geomagnetic storm would rank as number 12 on the
all time list of the most intense geomagnetic storms. The only
recent geomagnetic storm to rank higher is the sixth placed storm
which started on October 28, 2003.

Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 104.6. The planetary A
index was 181 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap
indices: 180.9).
Three hour interval K indices: 88997654 (planetary), 77886553
(Boulder).

***

See ya there ... Jim KG0PP

I'm posting this for Dave...

Just a reminder that NK6A (Don) and I, N0IT (Dave in
MO) will be your foxii tonight.

The hunt will begin at 0200z on November 12 (8 pm
Central Nov 11). You are likely to find us somewhere
within plus or minus ten 10 khz of 7040.

At the beginning of the hunt I will be listening up
around 700 hz or higher and will be listening closer
to my frequency as the pileup subsides. As usual the
exchange is RST, State, Name, and Pwr. For more info
see:

I will be using Kenwood TS-940S at 5 watts into my
trusty Butternut HF2V vertical.

Even if conditions stink, come out and join the fun.
HF can often be very unpredictable. See you tonight.

73 de Dave, N0IT



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Trying to get up to date here. I'm in QFOX now and hope to not miss
any more messages.

Ok, well maybe some automated device, or maybe someone trying to grab
our ISP info????

hmm .. I got one of those recently as well, and I use gmail so I
figured there was a temporary hiccup ..

de John/W1RT

Got an email saying all my yahoo groups were suspended for bounced mail,
just checking?

Fred VE3FAL

w7kxb@... wrote:

Hello Lou/W8LI
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't w1aw on 7047.5? Later
KXBill
-------------- Original message --------------

w8li writes:

This was my first fox hunt.....new antenna, new rig, first time on the
air in more than 15 years. I never found the foxes although I heard the
CA kw calling CQ SS. Also W1AW booming in at 7.0375.

I'll keep trying.

73,
W8LI LOU GA 5W

k6xr wrote:

I heard LLoyd but no Rick. some guy in Sacramento was running a kw
calling
cq ss and taking out qrp!

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:08 PM
Subject: [qfox] Well, this Hound got skunked :-/

I never heard either fox...
Vy 73
de
Wayne K9DI
k9di (at) k9di (dot) org




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Yep. Typo.... sorry about that. I was just trying to bracket the propagation for the evening and
didn't check my typing.

=Lou=

--- alembichead <alembichead@...> wrote:

.By 10:15z I
could no longer
hear Rick.You were nonexistent.

I was NEVER nonexistent!!!

8?D



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No luck here Lloyd......could hear W0IS pretty well at times
but,couldn't get past the other hounds.By 10:15z I could no longer
hear Rick.You were nonexistent.

73
Pete N2PG

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I had fun on opening night, mostly, until the
curtain came down at about 0315...then the QRM took
over at 0330.

If I erred, please email me direct. Thanks for
playing, and I'll see you in the Pack next Thursday!


0200 N1FN 559 CO ET 5W
0201 KG4FSN 559 FL Juan 5W
0202 KT5V 559 TX David 5W
0203 W7SW 559 AZ Scotty 5W
0204 AA5O 559 LA Vern 5W
0204 K5JHP 559 TX Bill 5W
0205 N9AW 559 WI Jerry 5W
0206 AB9CA 559 AL Dave 5W
0206 KK5LD 559 TX DP 5W
0207 K5ZTY 559 TX Bill 5W
0209 WA0ITP 559 IA Terry 5W
0210 W5YR 559 TX George 5W
0210 K5EOA 559 LA Wayne 5W
0211 W5TB 559 TX Doc 5W
0212 K0EVZ 559 NM Doc 5W ...a paradox??
0212 AC5JH 559 OK Tom 5W
0213 W0UFO 559 MN Mert 5W
0213 N5KIP 559 LA DG 4W
0215 K0LOA 559 TX Dwain 5W
0216 W0IIT 559 KS Bart 5W
0216 K0PC 559 MN Pat 5W
0217 W9UQB 559 AZ Mike 5W
0218 N5ZE 559 TX Lew 5W
0219 AA5CK 559 OK Ted 5W
0220 K5DI 559 NM Karl 5W
0221 AG0T 559 ND Todd 4W
0222 VE6KG 559 AB Norm 5W
0223 W5USJ 559 TX Chuck 5W
0224 W0CH 559 MO Dave 500mW
0225 KZ5J 599 TX Pat 3W
0226 K6VNX 559 CA Arlen 5W
0227 W0ANM 559 MN Chris 5W
0228 K5PSH 559 TX Jerry 5W
0229 VE6EX 559 AB Dan 5W
0230 AC7A 559 AZ Tom 5W
0231 NK6A 559 CA Don 5W
0232 W5HNS 559 TX Henry 5W
0232 K5BGB 559 TX Rod 5W
0233 VE3FAL 559 ON Fred 5W
0235 VE5DC 559 SK Jerry 5W
0236 KI0KY 559 CO Steve 5W
0238 K7HBN 559 WA George 5W
0239 NB7F 559 OR Lee 5W
0241 AK5X 559 TX Bill 5W sounded like 5KW...
0242 WA5BDU 559 AR Nick 5W
0243 K7FD 559 OR John 5W
0243 W0AV 559 MO George 5W
0244 N0TK 559 CO Dan 5W
0244 N0AR 559 MN Scott 5W
0246 VE5RC 229 SK Bruce 5W
0248 KB5FCF 559 OK Joel 4W
0249 K6ESE 559 CA Trev 5W nice call!
0250 K6XR 559 CA Reg 5W
0252 KD5UDB 559 LA Chris 5W
0252 K0MAX 559 MN Max 5W
0254 K9IUA 559 IA Kevin 5W
0258 AD5NE 559 LA Brad 5W
0258 KR0U 559 CO Tim 5W
0259 W7ILW 559 AZ Walt 5W
0301 W0NTA/M 559 CO Dick 4W
0302 N5YFC 559 LA Wayne 5W
0303 AA5TB 559 TX Steve 5W
0304 N5EBD 559 TX Ken 5W
0304 W0RW/PM 559 CO Paul 2W
0305 KD5KXF 559 TX Mike 5W
0311 K5OI 559 OK Tim 5W
0312 VA6RF 559 AB Earl 5W
0313 N5IB 559 LA Jim 5W
0315 VE6TN 559 AB Barry 5W
0319 W2MY 559 TX Steve 5W
0329 K6IA 559 CA Ward 5W
0357 AA7EQ 559 AR Bob 5W
0359 W0IS FOX MN Rick
0359 K3ESE FOX MD Lloyd




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My first also .. I'm in VA and even closer to Lloyd .. I could just
barely hear him (K2, G5RV with one leg ripped off by Dominion VA tree
contractors) but never could copy well enough to get an exchange.

de W1RT/John

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Hi gang,

Think I got a twofer last night. At least the foxii were far enough
away that I could hear 'em.

Put up a quicky attic doublet yesterday. The hunt was its first test.
Hadn't gotten anything back up in the air after Ivan 'til then. Took
all of my wire down for the storm. Good thing too, the eye passed
directly over the house . . .

Don't know if AJ4AY has put back any wire yet. I know he is aiming to.

I haven't been on the air much lately, but I take it that 40 is
getting longer and longer and longer.

Hope to see all of you in the hunts!

Take care es ttul

dave
ab9ca

still tweaking ...:)