wayne burdick wrote:
I'll have to get to work improving my antenna. Now let's see.....if I'm going to put up a fixed-aimed wire beam that would optimize for ECN Eurasia from San Francisco, where should it point? :)
About 14 degrees is right for Fresno to Iraq, and given the beamwidth of practical antennas, should be fine for SF. The best propagation today (assuming a flux of 100 and K of 2) appears to be on 14 MHz from about 0100Z to 0400Z. 18 MHz would be slightly better, but is less reliable. My propagation program shows zilch at the 1900Z ECN time! The current time zone offset to Iraq is +4, so that means from 0400-0800 Iraq time would be best.
-- 73, Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
