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I wonder if anyone could go in and make a squelch adj on this thing (or what ever it needs.) This has been kerchuncking on site 6 for the past few days...... It sounds like a VHF link or something similar.

I have noticed today that VHF is "open".
Probably atmospheric, ducting.

It's a good time to play with 2M simplex!

If so, this will go away in a few days, and truthfully, (if ducting is to blame) "adjusting" squelch on the rx is not a good idea, as one would have to set it "too" tight, (and then would need to return again in a few days to "reset").

This happens a few times every year.

I use these kinds of phemonenah as a clue to when the VHF bands are "open". You can also tell by monitoring FM broadcast (which is VHF). If you normally listen to a somewhat weak station (I listen to OLY in Fed Way) and other stations start "blocking", this is another indicator that VHF is open.

I formerly supported an agency that had UHF base stations in SEA, PDX and other locs on the same freq. Every once in a while we would get "feedback" when operating a base, as all base stations were wirelined into the same console here in SEA. Feedback was resulting from TX in one city and the other city's base would RX, causing actual feedback. Keep in mind this was around 407-420 MHz UHF. The dispatchers and managers would bitch to me, and all I said to them was "HELL YEAH!" and ran outside to play HAM radio. ('cuz that meant the bands were REAL open)

They never understood...

I do not know who uses this group, or if it was used last week at Southcenter. It just sticks out as a single kerchunker.

Thanks,
Dan