Just some bullet-pointed thoughts concerning the upcoming Es season from Kingsport:
* This will be the first Es season where I am live on the Rabbitears autologger with my three TEF's. Looking very much forward to logging stations via this secondary method as well as the ability to look on my phone to see if anything's going on at home.
* Spent the winter months experimenting with radio placement and placement of the antennas. I'll be using two directional 4-element antennas from Stellar Labs and two dipoles. The Stellar Labs are up about 20 feet and the two dipoles are up about 15 feet.
* I'm still old-school, so no SDR's or recording whole swaths of the FM band here, no sir, it's still four S3HD's, four S10HDIP's, three TEF's, one Carver TX-11 and one Sangean WR2. Recording devices range from laptops to Sony ICD- model recorders.
* This 2025 season will be season 30 of listening for Es on FM from here in Kingsport.
* Grateful to have the Forums back, I aim to post here more than I did last year, but then again, last year WAS disappointing. Although I have a Slack account I will likely not make posts on there concerning loggings, etc. Lately I find myself using Slack only to see what others are discussing. I've never had desire for social media anyway. So I'll be utilizing the WLogger and the Forums for postings.
* My goals this season are (1) Double-hop with ID to the Pacific coast states again and/or (2) To get Puerto Rico or Virgin Islands and/or (3) To get Newfoundland.
* This will be the first Es season where I am live on the Rabbitears autologger with my three TEF's. Looking very much forward to logging stations via this secondary method as well as the ability to look on my phone to see if anything's going on at home.
* Spent the winter months experimenting with radio placement and placement of the antennas. I'll be using two directional 4-element antennas from Stellar Labs and two dipoles. The Stellar Labs are up about 20 feet and the two dipoles are up about 15 feet.
* I'm still old-school, so no SDR's or recording whole swaths of the FM band here, no sir, it's still four S3HD's, four S10HDIP's, three TEF's, one Carver TX-11 and one Sangean WR2. Recording devices range from laptops to Sony ICD- model recorders.
* This 2025 season will be season 30 of listening for Es on FM from here in Kingsport.
* Grateful to have the Forums back, I aim to post here more than I did last year, but then again, last year WAS disappointing. Although I have a Slack account I will likely not make posts on there concerning loggings, etc. Lately I find myself using Slack only to see what others are discussing. I've never had desire for social media anyway. So I'll be utilizing the WLogger and the Forums for postings.
* My goals this season are (1) Double-hop with ID to the Pacific coast states again and/or (2) To get Puerto Rico or Virgin Islands and/or (3) To get Newfoundland.
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