2 meter conditions

Conditions today on 2 meters are almost identical to conditions two days ago with the best DX being K3ARL-1 near State College, PA, at 261°, 266 miles.

more ducting

More 2-meter ducting on my APRS map this morning with the top DX being in almost completely opposite directions:

• KQ1L-2 in Litchfield, ME, at 39° 230 miles

• W3ND-2 in Enola, PA, at 245° 230 miles

Surfin': If It Looks Like A Ducting...

Two-meter band openings and a unique way to spot them is the topic of this week’s installment of Surfin’. After you read Surfin’, you can leave your comments here.

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144-MHz band opening

Every evening after work, I drop off my briefcase in my home office/shack and check the status of 144.39 MHz as displayed on my computer screen running APRS. Last night was no different except that there must have been a nice band opening on 2 meters during the day.

It looked like your classic summer tropospheric ducting event with loads of stations received by my station all clustered along the East Coast down to the Virginia-North Carolina state lines. The most distant station received was WB4YNF-4 in Ahoskie, NC, approximately 430 miles away!

There was one station I received that was a bit of an anomaly: K3ARL-1 near State College, PA, approximately 267 miles west/southwest of WA1LOU. It is inland and far from the other stations huddled along the coast and I am not sure how my reception of that station fits into the tropospheric ducting model.

1984 plus 23 part 2

What were the pre-2005 "other intelligence activities"? ...our own Government was spying on us using methods even more blatantly illegal than the "Terrorist Surveillance Program"...