On 4/17/2012 12:22 PM, Robin wrote: > We have recordings of contacts made with VP6DX on 160 SSB with the eastern > end in full > daylight... Real contacts, not someone playing with a remoted station in > Florida. An > analysis of the VP6DX logs will probably show a couple hundred contacts with > the far end > in hard daylight, and probably 25-50 or so with the VP6DX end still in real > daylight
About nine years ago, before moving to CA I leased a mountaintop site near Sacramento, and had a 100W rig feeding a loaded dipole sloping away from a 170 ft tower. I worked a guy in the Caribbean from there at least an hour before my sunset. Working contests on Topband from my home 70 miles S of San Francisco with 1.5kW, an omni vertical, and Beverages, I regularly hear east coast stations at least two hours before my sunset, but they can rarely hear me, primarily because they're listening on Beverages aimed to EU. I can also regularly work anyone I can hear out to about 1,000 miles in this time frame -- Seattle, Phoenix, CO, NM. After my sunrise, what I hear from the west varies a lot from day to day, but I've made a good number of 4,500-5,500 mile Qs a half hour after sunrise. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
