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Well - there has been some activity - yesterday even 10M was open for a while, especially the transequatorial path, and today 17, 15, and 12 had quite a bit of activity. But unfortunately I'm not set up for much above 20M right now, mostly because of sucky radiation patterns from my antenna on those bands. I intend to improve that later when things are more consistently open. Last cycle I used a shortened 5/8 vertical CB antenna on 10M and it worked great.

About sundown today the noise floor went way down on 60M, at least on the West coast, and there was a group of guys on 5366.5 in mobiles going home from EMCOM/HAMCOM in Reno, and some others with even portable hand carried gear, most of them running 5-20W. I could hear them for quite a while and it was easy enough to work them at the 50W limit with my non-resonant antenna.

That was great, because it was the first time I have heard any activity on 60 other than government data transmissions, which are quite strong and not filtered out so well by my plain jane transceiver. Good to know a lot of them seem to take Sundays off.