Oct 1976-A VUD VHF Utility DX
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               Pat Dyer
   5315 Silvertip Drive
  San Antonio, TX 78228
Deadline: 10th of month

White Dot, 43 bytes           OCTOBER 1976

  Hank Holbrook, 7211 Chestnut St., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 QSLed, GMT

  5-31: 1904, N8029N  128.7   ov Salisbury,MD(Richard E. Gorkes; Piper
                              Cherokee 140; 1-engine, 2-seat; 10 watts)
   6-5: 1305, N77CB   127.2   ov Greenbelt,MD(Flight Watch, Inc.;Beech-
                              craft Bonanza; 8500 feet)
        1547, G-BOAA  126.1   vic Dulles Apt(British Airways Concorde;25w)
        1554, N84828  126.0   10 mi se Wilmington,DE(North Jersey Aero
                              Co.;Cessna 172;1-e,4-s;student solo flight)
     6: 0021, N555RM  119.7   s of Ches.Bay Br(Ronald E. Marsh;Cessna 310)
    15: 2050, N232R   133.9   ov L.I.,NY(Dart Industries, Inc.; Lear 24,
                              2-engine, 8-seat; 31,000 feet)
    27: 0132, LVLGP   130.85  vic NY (Argentine Airlines; 707; NY-Miami)
        2342, KIF 844  42.42  Lawrenceburg, TN (state police)
        ----, KIE 964  42.42  Signal Mountain, TN (state police; 350 w)
   7-3: 2003, N6837A  133.5   20 mi e Lancaster,PA(American Airlines
                              flt 672; 727; 25 watts)
        2004, N6819A  133.5   ov Trenton,NJ(American 148;727; 25 watts)
     5: 1548, WY-9430 156.525 1 mi e Columbia Beach(Noble Princess,
                              Yacht,Owens Express Cruiser; 5 watts)
        1731, N81HD   119.7   ov Annapolis(Austin Armacost,Jr.;Cessna 182)
  ----  ----, N4643J  119.7   e of Ches.Br.(Herbert Electric Company;
                              Piper PA28-180 Cherokee Arrow;1-e,4-s;10 w)

  Martin J. Theil, 12 Princeton Dr. E., Holiday, FL 33589 (934-5843)
  Bearcat  101 with rod antenna; loggings for August 1976

  KQI 316   33.90   Cincinnati, OH      KLI 364  150.905  Tampa(auto club)
  KSA 994   39.50   Pekin, IL           KII 218  155.37   Pinellas, FL
  KSO 592   37.10   DC(local govt)      KUZ 385  161.80   Tampa,(USCG)
  KGA 361   33.86   Dist.Hts.,MD        KAC 551  154.815  Tampa(helic.)
  KCA 695   33.78   Manchester, NH      KSB 236   39.50   Effingham,IL
  KGC 676   33.80   Hagerstown, MD      KSB 352   39.50   Morris,IL
  KSB 269   39.50   Watseka, IL         KRC 613   33.94   Hudson, FL
  KIA 680   33.94   Brooksville, FL     KIA 653  154.43   Tampa (fire)
  KXA 312   33.94   Spg Hill, FL           -     162.4    St.Pete.(wx)
  KCG 344   33.94   Hanover, PA         KDR 254  154.280  Clearwater(fire)
  KDP 419  156.03   Dunedin, FL            -     152.69   Tampa(mo.phone)

  skip dropped off the last 2 weeks of August. Would still like to hear
  from other members with the Bearcat 101 regarding programming it. I
  have freq info for members on request for portions of DE, MD, IA, KS,
  NJ, MO, PA, NY, MI, OH

  Dave Cox, 2007 E. Brandywine Ct., Birmingham, AL  35216

  sent along a clipping from the Sep 6 Birmingham News that details get-
  ting the Alabama network of 162.55 MHz weather stations on - delays in
  the delivery of coax cable have caused the planned start in September
  to be put off until probably early October. Current stations on in
  Hunstville and Mobile will be joined by Birmingham, Andalusia, Dothan,
  Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Russellville, and Cheaha Mountain.

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  Solar activity continues to be on the low side. While several Cycle 21
  regions have been crossing the disk, none of them has been very large,
  complex, or long-lived. The Swiss are still predicting a smoothed count
  for this December of 4. The last minimum (fall of 1964) hit bottom with
  about a 9. Thus, F2 prospects for VHF this fall now appear to be the
  worst since the period between Cycles 18 and 19 (i.e., 1954).

VHF UTILITY DX OCTOBER 1976 Now, my loggings. Hammarlund SP-600-JX-10, Hallicrafters SX-62, Allied A-2586; two 30' wires at 12' (ne-sw, nw-se runs). New are underlined. Es unless noted; * F2, bs-backscatter; GMT used 8-11: 2052, KAA 893 35.22 St. Louis, MO (tone pager) 14: 2039, KFL 936 35.58 (west) (tone pager) 16: 2105, 32.000 * 17: 2305, L Ang-a 35.38 Los Angeles, CA (mobile phone) S Diego-a 35.38 San Diego, CA (mobile phone) 18: 2000, KME 438 35.22 Orange, CA (tone pager) 23: 0742, KOE 257 35.22 Phoenix, AZ (tone pager) 2110, KFL 880 35.22 Greenville, SC (tone pager) 35.22 * 24: 2000, 32.000 * 30: 2215, 32.000 * 26: 2120, 32.000 * 9-2: 1950, 32.000 * 27: 2020, 32.000 * 9: 2320, 35.58 * bs 28: 2130, 32.000 * 10: 2025, 35.62 * bs addenda (from prior month) 7-12: 1510, KKL 437 33.70 Gretna, LA (county fire) 1702, KAD 756 37.10 Waterloo, IA (county police) 1708, KAD 821 37.10 Cherokee, IA (county police) KAB 223 37.10 Newton, IA (police) 1711, KAD 505 37,10 Garner, IA (county police) 16: 1909, KSA 877 39.46 Princeton, IL (county police) 17: 0712, KAA 979 37.10 Oskaloosa, IA (police) 29: 1749, "OZN" 109.8 St. George, UT (VOR, A2 code ID) the VOR was logged with an Allied 426 FM set and Archer V-100 @ 20' I now have on hand a recent computer print-out of nearly 1100 VOR's sorted by freqs and alphabetically by idents. I would suggest that those with good equipment for that range (108-118) consider trying to catch some during the upcoming winter meteor showers. The ID's come about every 15 seconds or so. ----- While attending the Central States VHF Society Conference (an amateur radio group) in Houston Aug 19-22, I took along my A-2586 and little Jet-Stream mini receivers. The most obvious thing in Houston on 30-50 is that they have pagers on 35.22/.58/.62 and you'd never know from that racket if the skip was in there or not. The various r.f. fields (at least in the Astroworld area) are so intense that the 108-136 receiver was a mass of FM broadcast spurious responses. I didn't take my hi-band VHF/FM set, and it would have been probably similarly messed up. ----- For sometime now there has been a sort of local pager on 35.22, with a fast A2 code ID, KUC 915. It is apparently the hybrid type which uses tones and voice messages - a tone burst, followed by a voice (with a telephone audio quality) directing the message. So far, this has been active a total of only a few minutes an hour so no great harm to the DX use yet. ----------------------------------------- In the submission of reports for this column, I really prefer that a date and time (even if only approximate) be included with the loggings along with call if known, freq (again, may be apx), and location. This is particularly desired with the DX (i.e., skip) loggings. Then other DXers (even those who never report) have something to compare with. As some already know, I do edit out things from time to time. 73, Pat Signature, 1,689 bytes WA5IYX


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