2 Meter SSB

The band will open up in the south eastern US in the am July 15 2004 Good cold front moving into the area good early am tropos.
happy dx
73
n1obn
rick

 

I keep telling folks there is more to life than two meter FM.. this was a great opening and 6 has also been open..

get a ft-847, a ts 2000, a ic-706, something that will do all mode all band.. and work the world.. on cw, psk31, ssb, sstv, rtty.. EME, tropo, and more... tom N6AJR

 

35 grids 156 contacts during the 2 meter es event. Wow!
Makes listening to years of static worth it.

Callsigns listed are just the initial contacts for that grid.
Look at FN30 and FN31 almost 40 contacts in
just those two grids. Do you people in 30 and
31 work or just stay home and listen to two
meter SSB all Day.  Ha Ha.   Glad you all were there.


Squares worked by KB4TCU (EM81NM) on 2 m.
Type of propagation: All                Mode: Phone
From 07/06/2004 to 07/06/2004           Distance over: 0 Miles          Page: 1
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                                         DATA OF FIRST QSO
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GRID    QSOs  Conf.     CALLSIGN           DATE     TIME   LOCATOR  DISTANCE
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EN37     2     0       KØAWU           07/06/2004 22:30   EN37ED    1220
FN13     3     0       KØSM            07/06/2004 21:17   FN13       889 +-
FN34     5     1       K1LPS           07/06/2004 21:09   FN34WK    1065
FN43     6     1       K1OYB           07/06/2004 21:17   FN43      1053 +-
FN11     1     0       K3KEL           07/06/2004 23:46   FN11TE     759
FN33     3     0       KC2ILU          07/06/2004 20:40   FN33FK     968
FN1Ø     1     0       KE3BU           07/06/2004 23:36   FN1Ø       704 +-
FN54     6     0       KY1K            07/06/2004 20:40   FN54HM    1157
FN44     2     0       N1KAT           07/06/2004 23:22   FN44VC    1108
FN3Ø    19     3       N2RRA           07/06/2004 21:00   FN3Ø       832 +-
FN22     4     0       N4VC            07/06/2004 21:09   FN22       875 +-
EN84     1     0       N8CJK           07/06/2004 23:19   EN84       898 +-
FN45     1     0       VA2LC           07/06/2004 21:09   FN45      1159 +-
FN14     1     0       VA3HGO          07/06/2004 23:15   FN14       953 +-
EN85     1     0       VA3TEM          07/06/2004 23:19   EN85       967 +-
FNØ7     1     0       VE2HOG          07/06/2004 22:08   FNØ7      1124 +-
FN35    11     0       VE2JWH          07/06/2004 20:40   FN35PJ    1103
FN37     1     0       VE2YKY          07/06/2004 20:40   FN37      1223 +-
FNØ2     3     1       VE3AX           07/06/2004 21:30   FNØ2CW     806
FNØ3     3     0       VE3HJK          07/06/2004 21:35   FNØ3       856 +-
FNØ4     1     0       VE3HLS          07/06/2004 23:16   FNØ4       923 +-
FN25     4     0       VE3KKL          07/06/2004 21:17   FN25      1056 +-
EN82     1     1       VE3TMG          07/06/2004 23:13   EN82LH     745
FN42    14     2       W1FKF           07/06/2004 20:50   FN42KL     995
FN41     5     0       W1LP            07/06/2004 22:20   FN41TR     987
FN2Ø    15     1       W2GJW           07/06/2004 20:55   FN2Ø       762 +-
EN74     1     0       W8MIL           07/06/2004 23:32   EN74GF     889
EN43     1     1       W9RPM           07/06/2004 23:16   EN43       939 +-
EN53     2     0       W9YYZ           07/06/2004 22:53   EN53FH     892
FN32     5     1       WA1RKS          07/06/2004 21:17   FN32HM     922
FN23     3     0       WA2AEY          07/06/2004 21:17   FN23BX     941
FN12     2     0       WA2BPE          07/06/2004 21:50   FN12LF     806
EN91     1     0       WA8RJF          07/06/2004 22:36   EN91IQ     708
FN21     6     0       WB2VVV          07/06/2004 20:55   FN21       818 +-
FN31    20     3       WZ1V            07/06/2004 20:40   FN31       882 +-
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  35   156    15
BEST DISTANCE: 1226 Miles  with K0AWU in EN37 on 07/06/2004 at 23:04

 

well, i was fortunate enough to work 2M skip but I did get to work 6 USB from the mobile. I have an OA-50 on a 97 saturn 2 door and it was great, mobile 6 from EN82 with a 60+s9 signal into arkansa great day for 6, was open for me for 2 days, hasn't been open sense then. hopefully we can get to work some more 2 and 6 before the summer ends.

 

I was also fortunate enough to overhear that the VHF bands were open on July 6th. I was mobile near Atlanta and went to 6M (FM) and made a contact at Dulles Airport, VA. This is over 600 miles! I was very impressed. I also began scanning the 2M band and listened to a couple of NY repeaters. It is definitely fun and I hope we have more openings like this.

 

Have a couple of all mode radio's. Shuck's I missed most of it .
Nice to see hams enjoying the hobby
73

 

good!

 

What a day it was. At mid day, a friend across town dropped me an email to say two was open to Rochester, NY (we're in EL98, central FL) at lunch. When I got home, I turned on the rig, worked my first contact in FN35 at 2107 UTC. The band was open 3 hours, with amazing fades.

10 QSOs, 9 new grids, all NE USA and VE (VE2 and VE3).

100W Icom 746Pro and KMA5054 6m log periodic (that works pretty well on 2m).


73,
Bob

 

I worked KC4PX 144.20785 EN98 from EN82 QRP w/Comet tri-band vertical, 05 July 23:20 GMT.  Thanks to VE3TMG for the audio of the contact as I can now know it really happened.  I just hope I don't have to wait 11 years for the next opening, Terry. Tnx to KC4PX for being off the call frequency where QRP and polarized the "wrong way" operators can be heard.
73deVA3QRM

 

There's been considerable QSB of LOCAL broadcasters on standard FM (88-108MHz)...Even my favorite local station (WFTZ, 101.5MHZ in Manchester, TN) has been wavering with other broadcasters from up to 250 miles away drifting in and out of the passband. Rotten time to not have my 2M yagi up!

73

Steve, K4YZ
Winchester, Tn EM65

 

For those of us that sit and listen to nothing but hissing and static day after day on 2 ssb this was the pay off!! Great signals, new states worked and was also hearing stations 1000 miles away on 146.580( the local chit-chat freq here in my area of CT) and 146.520. Classic set up - really short skip on 10m ssb in the late morning, really short skip in 6m ssb in the mid to late afternoon and then 2 blew wide open. I was lucky to be on vacation that day. I dont have a big vhf station, 3 el and 80w on 6 and 100w and 10 el on 2. The QSLS are starting to come in now. It sure was a blast!

 

Well, you know what they say...

Life is all about timing. I had installed a 13-element yagi -- my only antenna for 2m SSB -- just 3 weeks before the opening. I thought I might get lucky and catch a station or two during the Summer. I surpassed that in spades.

It wasn't just SSB, though. I worked several stations on FM, some of whom were using standard-issue 50w mobiles in Northeastern traffic. Lots of FN41s. Fun.

I finally got the last of my cards out yesterday...

Peter, N4LI

 

Gotta love that E-skip on 2 meter SSB! I logged a few stations in western Michigan that day, and it was all done with a Comet GP-6 Vertical dual bander to boot....Good to hear you had success in one of amateur radios' most challenging and elusive modes on a band that is usually reserved for short distance, line of sight contacts...

There has also been some good repeater skipping recently, as I have been working quite a few Iowa stations at least 200 miles from my QTH. Conditions were particularly good when I started receiving the Jones County, Iowa repeater in Anamosa at 30+ S-units! Keep us all posted of any other cool stuff you work on 2 meter SSB and even anything on 70 CM, I like to see what is capable on a good day...

73 and good DX,

KC9DGM

 

I was in my car, and accidently hit he reverse button on my mobile, and heard a conversation from Ohio, this made me intereted, and I tuned to 146.52, and behold, the 2m band was open. I made a contact with KE4YZN EN15, and N0MVA EM27, all on 11watts and a 1/4 wave mobile antenna! To cool!! anybody do it with less, I'd like to know...