Welcome to the mix of 80m and solar storms! Those "zoomies" have dogged me for 50 years. They're not indicative of the sky falling down but can be annoying. Those can be caused by a few things but most likely you're hearing a transmission being drug across the dial. Commercial transmitters tend to be fixed on a specific frequency so this may be someone "spinning the dial in transmit. Also, it could be an artifact of an oscillator run amuk. If you see it on one radio but not both, it's likely the latter. To work closer stations, set up an NVIS antenna. Near Vertical Incident Sky-wave. Very simple: put together an 80m dipole BUT only 10 feet off the ground. The signal basically goes straight UP then back DOWN within a couple hundred miles. However, your VHF UHF radio is what we use for really local QSOs via repeaters
Welcome to the mix of 80m and solar storms! Those "zoomies" have dogged me for 50 years. They're not indicative of the sky falling down but can be annoying. Those can be caused by a few things but most likely you're hearing a transmission being drug across the dial. Commercial transmitters tend to be fixed on a specific frequency so this may be someone "spinning the dial in transmit. Also, it could be an artifact of an oscillator run amuk. If you see it on one radio but not both, it's likely the latter.
To work closer stations, set up an NVIS antenna. Near Vertical Incident Sky-wave. Very simple: put together an 80m dipole BUT only 10 feet off the ground. The signal basically goes straight UP then back DOWN within a couple hundred miles. However, your VHF UHF radio is what we use for really local QSOs via repeaters
Any storms near you ?
not that I know of, Seeing it on the other station made me think it wasn't something local to me.