. QST . c. through the efforts of W5RCI last summer,has been working Texas stations frequently sincethe middle of March. W5FEK, Houston, saysthat W4UUF has hit S9-plus levels on severaloccasions, and has been heard working stationsat 500 to 600 miles as fast as he could turn fromone to another. Well bet that Tampa to Houston,800 miles, could have been worked almost asreadily. From Orlando, W4CSS writes that he andW4MSX and W4QN have heard W4UUF. Thisis an all-Florida circuit of some 400 miles thatalmost certainly could have included Jackson-ville, Miami and other Florida cities, too. Justafter
. QST . c. through the efforts of W5RCI last summer,has been working Texas stations frequently sincethe middle of March. W5FEK, Houston, saysthat W4UUF has hit S9-plus levels on severaloccasions, and has been heard working stationsat 500 to 600 miles as fast as he could turn fromone to another. Well bet that Tampa to Houston,800 miles, could have been worked almost asreadily. From Orlando, W4CSS writes that he andW4MSX and W4QN have heard W4UUF. Thisis an all-Florida circuit of some 400 miles thatalmost certainly could have included Jackson-ville, Miami and other Florida cities, too. Justafter midnight, May 8th, W4QN heard W4SMA,Whiteville, N. C, for more than an hour, butcould not raise him. This is a 450-mile over-water path that is probably close to ideal work. We suspect that Norfolk, Baltimore,or even Philadelphia might be worked fromFlorida points now and then, too. To aid inestablishing contact with distant points, Orlandostations aim their anteimas on the following July 1955. schedule, transmitting and listening for DX: 2045EST — Miami area; 2100 — local check, beamedon Gainesville or Tampa; 2115 — Pensacola;2130 — Tampa; 2145 — various directions, de-pending on conditions observed during abovechecks. Activity on 144 Mc. in North Carolina hasbeen coming along well in recent months. Ourmeeting in Raleigh was attended by an enthusias-tic band of 2-meter men who are working theband for all its worth, several of them in loca-tions that should be hot spots for 2-meter , Wilmington, N. C, has since writtenthat on the night of May 10th, while W4MDAwas at work, K4CTW picked up a weak signal 2-METER STANDINGS CallStates Areas Miles WIRFU 19 7 WIHDQ 19 6 WICCH 17 5 WIIZY 16 6 WIUIZ 16 6 WIIEO 16 5 5 WIAZK 14 5 5 WIBCN 14 5 WIDJK 13 5 5 W2UK . .W20PQ. . . .W2PCQ. . .W2AMJ. .W2QNZ. .W2BRV. . .W3
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