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Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?

To: "'Tom W8JI'" <w8ji@w8ji.com>, "'Richard \(Rick\) Karlquist'" <richard@karlquist.com>, "'Art Roberts - W5AER'" <w5aer@hotmail.com>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: 160m Sloping Vertical Antenna?
From: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham@nc.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:16:05 -0500
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Multi-path was my thought as well!

Merry Christmas!

73,
Charlie, K4OTV


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From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@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" <richard@karlquist.com>
To: "Art Roberts - W5AER" <w5aer@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
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