One of the HFTA arrival angle charts shows the very low angles EU - PNW
on 80m. These are calculated values.
One way to measure arrival angles is to real time compare S/N on a
vertical vs a dipole. From good modeling, the specific antennas can be
"calibrated" gain vs elevation and the
Grant
Having lived in both Spokane and Boston area I can validate you
observation in a general way and I am now in Florida where the game
still played differently again than either
I am REALLY INTRIGUED by you comment "Arrival angles for 80 peak at less
than 10 degrees" . How did you
Excellent post, Grant, key points of which were driven home to me by O(T
Topbander NI6T not long after I moved to NorCal from Chicago.
It's not the miles, it's the path.
73, Jim K9YC
On 9/25/2022 7:25 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
My perspective as originally a "1" in Boston and now residing near
No questions Bob. I’m good with this. If there is a manual please include it.
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My perspective as originally a "1" in Boston and now residing near
Seattle, is the nickname "suffering sevens" is well applied to my
friends here in the Pacific Northwest.
Simply, for the PNW, distance isn't that meaningful - it's path that
matters (and latitude). What was easy in Boston at
I get what you're saying Steve . . .
But to me, anything over 2,000 miles I consider DX on 160m . . . considering
most stations on Top Band struggle to work stations 1,000 miles away.
So I still consider it an achievement to work 'Across the Pond' on Top Band,
which is why it still gives me a
From the viewpoint of old Europe it´s probably "just" the atlantic
ocean, what has to be passed. Thinking, that there is basically nothing
in between the two continents than waves, storms and a view ships and
the signal will be then received at another part of the world, which we
only knew for
G’day all
Some food for thought.
Like Roger G3YRO and others who were teenage UK radio amateurs in the
1960s/1970s I grew up radio-wise on 160m. In those days, the holy grail was to
work across the Atlantic from UK/Europe.
Nowadays, living in Western Australia, it seems quite funny to think
