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Just got a call from Wil and he was just going into a meeting but he said VHF lowband is open and he was hearing skip in the 40 MHz regions. Time to do some searching down there! :D

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Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Late update.

Army convoy on I5 near Southcenter on 30.000 (150.0) Sabre units yakking with Snake units.

Also got a few hits I skipped past around 42.560 (some sort of traffic hazard) and maybe 42.260. Was busy looking for the convoy.

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Update:

As of 3:20pm today now geo mag shows unsettled and fair daytime poor night conditions above 24 MHz.

No hits today. :roll:

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

Ya gotta have the right equipment for the job, Jim.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

If anyone is interested, I just happen to see this last weekend. If I had the spare cash I'd probably pick it up...

http://www.murphyjunk.net/u-s-issue-com ... ated-items

About the 12th item down... a Datron HH7700 portable with programming kit.

http://www.dtwc.com/products/tactical/vhf/hh7700

33Mhz FM skip is coming in from eastern USA...

In an attempt to get back on the air today, I tried to nurse my neighbor-destroyed coax to life...and ended up splicing in about a foot of speaker wire... one lead for the shield, one lead for the center conductor.. A for effort.. F for implementation. (Source? Anyone? Anyone?).

Anyhow, for the few brief minutes it worked (until the cat sat on the wire and I gave up and went for coffee), I was getting hammered by low band skip....lots of southern accents and, between 29.7 and 30 or so, a metric ton of Spanish taxi dispatching. Also, on 31.5xx (didn't write it down) a guy calling unheard stn saying he was 20 minutes from Enid and would need help with the skid steer loaders.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

Find any yet?


I was getting the CHP up at the Hood Canal bridge and a bit beyond today.

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Yeah, coax was replaced over the weekend. Poor Jim got an earful about it. Via email.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives