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Re: Topband: Daylight QSO

To: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Daylight QSO
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:10:36 -0500
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: Daylight QSO


> >I suggest we look at the actual paths using something
>>like DX Atlas to see whether we are really talking about
>>"daylight" or "twilight" with the sun at very low angles.
>
>
>
> In that case my East - West QSO's yesterday happened when 
> the terminator was
> ~9000 km to the East and ~11000 km to the West as per DX 
> Atlas. That's why
> it was decided to try at or about local noon - so there 
> would  be no
> twilight enhancements.


We shouldn't look just east or west, we should look along 
the direction of the path. 

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