marcspaz Posted May 22, 2023 Report Share Posted May 22, 2023 This is pretty wild. I don't check everyday, but this is either the third or fourth major storm I have seen this Spring. I haven't used the radio tonight, but I have to imagine this is causing some issues to some degree. I noticed the MUF is really high, too. Sab02r 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRKC935 Posted May 22, 2023 Report Share Posted May 22, 2023 This was commented about on the Facebook group and I figured I would share it here. We did have (there were a number of us on the air at the time) an interesting contact a few mornings back. A guy keyed up and said he was coming through the Johnstown PA repeater. Problem was there is no Johnstown PA repeater. I was on the Johnstown600 which is in Ohio and could tell he was coming through that repeater since it has two different courtesy tones. One for local keyup's and one for linked keyup's. So I knew he was on my repeater. It got interesting when I corrected him about where the repeater was and he replied that he was on a handheld radio in Wheeling WV. which was later verified to be 127 miles from my site. Obvioulsy he was on a hill over there and not down in Wheeling since it sits in a big hole. But that's pretty good for a 5 watt portable radio. Yes, the propagation for UHF has been interesting for about the past month. tweiss3, marcspaz, Sshannon and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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