Friday, December 6, 2013

Winter Storm Cleon Heads East

I'm tracking the weather here closely this weekend as the December Ice Storm moves into Southern New England.  I'll have to work a little radio along the way!




Friday Evening

23:01 UTC
There's steady light rain at present, with a report sent to mPing.   There's 0.08 inches of rain in the rain gauge.

Saturday Morning - Casually working the ARRL 160m CW Net

02:03 UTC  SKYWARN RECOGNITION DAY NET
I had the privelede of checking into the Special Hartford Tolland County Weather Net for Skywarn Recognition Day

K1PAI - Roger Net Control
WA1KGQ Vernon CT Repeater 146.790
and linked repeater
W1AEC/R Dartmough MA  WX1BOX, NWS Taunton

Hartford Tolland Co - Skywarn Recognition Day - Special Net

My working list of Stations Checking in with conditions:

KB1KJK/m 34 OVERCAST MODERATE RAIN
KA1GYB EAST HARTFORD CLOUDY 36.8 MODERATE RAIN
KB1YKJ TERRYVILLE 39 LIGHT RAIN OVERCAST
KA1H ENFIELD 38 LIGHT RAIN OVERCAST
W1RCT MANCHESTER 39 LIGHT RAIN OVERCAST
AB1GL MANCHESTER LIGHT RAIN
N1DN WEST HARTFORD 36 LIGHT RAIN
N1LWS  WESTFIELD, MA 35 OVERCAST MIXTURE RAIN, FREEZING RAIN, SNOW
KB1SYA NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI  43 OVERCAST LIGHT RAIN

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Monday, December 2, 2013

NAQCC Sunday Night Net

Ron, WB1HGA, was the net control operator for this Sunday's North American QRP CW Club Net.  the NAQCC apparently moved the net to 80 meters this week as a test.   This was a great opportunity to try my new 80m dipole.

 Net control was located just "up the road" in Massachusetts and quickly returned my call.  I gave Ron a 559 signal report, and listened for other checkins.   I'm not very experienced with CW nets, and even this slow speed net gave me a little challenge.  I copied the following stations:

WB1HGA (NET CONTROL)
W4HH
K3NLT
WI1X
K3NLT
N8ME
K4AOA
K3DLT
K8ME

A VE3 station called several times.   I couldn't complete the call nor could net control.   Hopefully next time!  A listing of the NAQCC nets can be found at their web site --> NAQCC QRS Nets.

73,
Phil, N1DN


Sunday, December 1, 2013

10m Beacon Activity

42 degrees, cloudy
30.11 in and falling

The Solar Flux is 133, and a number of 10 meter beacons are visible on the waterfall and audible to the ear today

28.204KA1KNWSouth Windsor, CT
28.224K5GIRCorpus Christie, TX
28.22KP3FTPonce, PR
28.219VE4ARMBrandon, MB
28.214XE3DMerida, Mexico
28.213KF5KBZAustin, TX
28.203PY2WFGSao Paolo, Brazil
28.189LU2DTMar Del Plata, Argentina
28.181VY0SNOIqaluit, Canada



   10 Meter Beacon N1DN/B
   Yaesu 817d at 5 watts to Solarcon A99 Trimed for 10m
    All reception reports are most apprreciated!








73,
Phil, N1DN