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Topband: propagation on 160m

To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: propagation on 160m
From: k9la@frontier.com
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:47:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Rick,

> Any program or url out there like W6EL or Ham Cap that
> you can enter current SSN/K etc and get a 160 plot?
> They all seem to stop at 80 m.

Our propagation prediction programs generally do not go below 80m for several 
reasons, the biggest being the effect of the magnetic field on propagation 
(specifically refraction, absorption, and polarization) of an electromagnetic 
wave at 1.8 MHz.

Anyway, using SSN and the K index won't really tell you anything about 
propagation on 160. Many have tried to correlate these two parameters to 160m, 
but it just doesn't work.

Carl K9LA
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