Multi-path was my thought as well! Merry Christmas!
73, Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom W8JI Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 11:02 AM To: Richard (Rick) Karlquist; Art Roberts - W5AER; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna? More likely it was a mix of groundwave and sky wave, if the station was local, cancelling or reinforcing signal as phase shifted on the sky wave path. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <rich...@karlquist.com> To: "Art Roberts - W5AER" <w5...@hotmail.com>; <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:23 PM Subject: Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna? > > > On 12/24/2014 3:39 PM, Art Roberts - W5AER wrote: >> On the thought of a low dipole: >> >> Years ago in Northern California, as an experiment, I had a VERY low >> dipole and got some strange results. Listening to a local station, in >> the afternoon, there was very deep QSB. We were able to talk, but with >> difficulty. >> >> 73, >> Art W5AER >> > > Were you cross polarized; IE was the other station running a vertical? > If so, minor fluctuations in propagation could result in major > fluctations of polarization cancellation. > > Rick N6RK > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4794 / Virus Database: 4253/8802 - Release Date: 12/24/14 > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband