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Well that was an absolute blast. Played radio with @DafyddJack from some high ground in north east Wales this afternoon. Worked Germany (multiple times), The Netherlands and France on #2m #SSB, 30-50w TX power and a 3 element SOTAbeam.
Before today neither of us had worked mainland Europe on 2m. #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #vhf #vhfdx #dx #tropo

New radio for me. I don't do much in the UHF/VHF bands but saw a good deal on this Yaesu FT5DR and decided to go for it.

I'm honestly not sure what exactly I'll be using it for. Probably some APRS and maybe some local nets. I live in the Boston area, feel free to suggest some good repeaters, nets or projects.

#hamradio #amateurradio #amateurradionet #amateurradiosatellites #vhf #vhfdx #uhf #aprs

More 2 meter band opening let us listen to #KB8EOC (the "Tiffin repeater") here in Ann Arbor until about 810a local time, and then that interference on 145.15- #N8DUY disappeared on our morning roundtable.

Some question about the impact of wildfires on VHF propagation.

#vhfdx

The "Tiffin repeater" is Bascom, OH, Seneca County, #KB8EOC . 145.15- with a 107.2 PL

Listening now on #Broadcastify

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25158

Bob #WD8PIC is about half way between this repeater and Ann Arbor's #N8DUY and he can check in to both depending on how he sets PL.

fun with #vhfdx

@ve3qbz @W8HF

Yes, a lot like that from a map perspective.

From an API perspective, I'm not quite sure what the right approach is. The simplest might be "log if your favorite iGate has a long hop on APRS".

I did look at https://aprs.fi specifically the iGate that Nick #W8XM runs

https://aprs.fi/info/a/W8XM-11

and found an APRS tx/rx pair to #K8YSE

https://aprs.fi/info/a/K8YSE-1

Ann Arbor, MI to N Royalton OH is 118 miles, not bad, logged at 7:52 Eastern 2023-05-21 (sunrise 6:11).

#aprs #vhfdx

Inconclusive, but I think there was a 2 meter band opening between Michigan and Ohio this am based on the indistinct sounds I heard on 145.15-.

There must be something that monitors this, maybe using APRS reception? Thinking that @W8HF might have some ideas.

Ideally I would pull in data into Home Assistant, like the Aurora integration that tracks solar weather.

#vhfdx #aprs #vhf

Report of a Michigan - Ohio band opening on 2 meters this morning, as experienced with signal mixing on several strong repeaters on 145.15 MHz.

attn @W8HF to see if there's anything going on of interest on 145.23 MHz between W8HF and W8UM repeaters.

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Just scored a nice #hamradio contact with Rob VK1KW in Canberra, 211km, well beyond my 80km horizon limit. There's a 1000m/3000ft mountain between us so we need either tropospheric ducting or aircraft scatter to make the contact. No tropo today, fast signal fading, so today was aircraft bounce. #VHFDX

Hi there! 👋

"New" (sept. 2019) EA ham here; current interest are #VHFDX, #SOTA and home made antennas.

#introductions

#TowerTuesday #hamradio #amateurradio #cbradio #27mc #SWL #DX #hamr

RT @[email protected]

One of our 2m low noise LFA Yagis above one of our 50/70MHz dualbanders #vhfdx #144mhz #50mhz #70mhz #hamradio

#TowerTuesday #hamradio #amateurradio #cbradio #27mc #SWL #DX #hamr

RT @[email protected]

50MHz and 70MHz on the same 1.2m boom and single feed point #hamradio #50mhz #70mhz #vhfdx