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Re: Topband: Skywave for LF

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Subject: Re: Topband: Skywave for LF
From: W2XJ <w2xj@nyc.rr.com>
Reply-to: w2xj@w2xj.net
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:32 -0500
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True 500 KHz did it for Marconi 111 years ago.

On 2/22/12 2:25 PM, Robert Kavanagh wrote:
>>  630 meter propagation will be almost entirely groundwave as ionospheric
>>  conditions generally do not support skywave (a primary reason for the
>>  use of LF and low MF for NDB).
>  Not true.
>
>  As G5VU has already noted, NDBs are routinely propagated via skywave,
>  e.g. IPA in Easter Island has been frequently heard here (8700 km) after
>  dark.
>
>  Bob
>  VE3OSZ
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>  UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
>

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