[aprssig] 30M APRS
Stephen H. Smith
wa8lmf2 at aol.com
Thu Dec 3 22:30:23 EST 2009
Matthew Stennett wrote:
> I am not hearing anything of an APRS nature on HF.
>
> I HAVE received a Node signal on 10.145MHz.
>
> Is anyone still ON HF APRS?
>
> Matt
There are very few signals receivable at the moment because of the
incredibly low (i.e. non-existent) sunspot count, but there is SOME
activity.
I monitor 10.149.2/10.149.4 (actual mark and space freqs for 30M APRS)
24/7 from my QTH in Pasadena, CA and plot what I hear on a map of
the entire continental US. You can see it on my personal UIview web
server here:
<http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439>
Note that I have an absolutely horrendous local noise level here (S9+10
broadband white noise level from a leaking cable TV trunk) which
severely limits what I can hear. Most days I DO hear 3 or 4 stations
regularly during the 2 hours around local sunrise & sunset, when
propagation is best. As I write this , the last station heard was W7CCY
in south central Washington state at 16:24 local (Pacific) time
today. The regulars that I constantly hear through my massive noise
level are:
W7CCY (He seems to have some sort of gold-plated magic antenna system --
I hear him consistently even when I don't hear
ANYONE else!)
VE7TXP
VE4GLS
K5RAV
KM5HG
When ever the sunspot count kicks up to a non-zero value, I immediately
see several more routinely.
A month ago, on my annual cross-country trip from CA to East Lansing, MI
and back, I heard a lot of stations from the mobile (FT-857 into W6HIQ
"Hi-Q" screwdriver ant) all along the 2000 mile route, day or night,
once I got out of high noise level urban areas.
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