Hi folks it's me Michael.

[Michael Evans]

Hi All. New member here Michael Evans, age 68 but act and told I look no more than mid 50s these folk go on my christmas card list, been a dxer since age of 11 yrs tuning the SW bands on gran parents radio and under the carpet long wire, did some TV dxing started in 1973 a peak year I understand, then went onto Sat DXing liked that very much, now I am into VHF FM dxing on Band 2 have 5 tuners WHY!! just so easy to get nowdays and cheaply, main one is a Sony ST SB 920 with the filters changed for narrow reception in mono, I also do some OIRT band dxing that's 64-74 MHz I have got 1,850 kilo meters reception so far, not tech at all but I get there, make all my own atennas out of scrap aliminium tubing.
Moderator of Skywaves CHAT with 22 members for 6 months of starting. Michael Rae.

[mikeydxer]

Welcome Mike, sounds like you have a lot of experience to work with! Glad you came to join us,there are a bunch of really nice people here willing to help with just about anything that has to do with dxing and propagation.Enjoy your new home here, we all look forward to hearing from you! :D Mikey

[KW4RZ]

Hi Michael. Is there much left in the OIRT band? I was in England in June 1995 and DXed 65-74MHz with a PRO2004 scanning receiver and when Es came in the band usually filled up with multiple overlapping signals. It was interesting nevertheless as there was nothing local in that part of the spectrum so the scanner would search the entire spread undisturbed until the Es started. Is it still like that now?

[Michael Evans]

Hi Randy. Just joined the group and so just getting used to how replies come in, plus not 100% up on how PCs work, but here I am, the russians are still on there and I got Radio Rossii they seem to have either and chain of stations under that name or each station has a op out amount of programming, the thing is the poor cannot afford so the story goes to buy new radios and or the stations to buy new gear, anyway this station Radio Rossii on 66.290 was from Kareliya Nadvoyitzy at a distance of 1.850 klms it was in full streo for 20 minutes, look up my location Bungay Suffolk UK.
About two weeks ago I had 17 freqs to tune to within a tuning range of 66..00 to 72.00 for some reason the lower 64.00 and higher 73-74 seems not to be used. I made my own 3 element beam which has a gain I am told of 8.5 dB so for someone who just uses guest work I am pleased, my receiver is a converted Technics ST 500L with 16 memos which are full now, glad you are or where a beleiver in this band. Good DX. Michael UK.

[pjdyer]

We resided not far from you (Botesdale) 1952-54. We probably took the A143 by there on a few trips to the Great Yarmouth seashore. http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/uk-52-54.htm We only had a US AM-FM (not working)-Phono set that was used mainly to listen to AFN programming from Frankfurt at night. At 50-Hz you can imagine what the phonograph sounded like!

73, Pat - WA5IYX

[crainbebo]

Welcome to the forums! I hear there's been SEVERAL 144 mHz E-skip events across the pond this year.