You can always try it, and see for yourself, get on with some DX right after the contest, and see how long signals last at the certain level, and when they start dropping rapidly. Do the same test at
I was going to respond with a nice article about using my stacked push-pull Razor beams to generate my own propagation, but then I looked at the date. Since this not the first, I assume you are seri
The most relevant page found from the site appears to be: http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/information/onrpgagm.htm especially: "Program investigates the interaction of high power, high frequency ele
Go to http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/srch.html and do search on word "heating", it will bring bunch of material, there were experiments publicized via ARRL for ham participation in conjuction with ionospheri
Please explain why my 100W produces S9 signals in Europe. If I put on my 500W amplifier, the signal in Europe sometimes increases to S9+20 (no Lulu, this not a case of S-meteritis). Of course, more o
Not sure what S-meter it is but how do you know what the receiver s-meter characteristics are at the Europe QTH? My FT990 is rather "accurate" on 20-15M. My IC706 ain't accurate anywhere. Now, By acc
Tom W8JI, I question your summary... Did you mean dense or stupid? Did you mean hot air production or a loose reference to excessive use of bandwidth on reflectors? I'm sure Freud would agree... Ford
BTW have you all read the QST article this month about the laser antennas? I want one of those! 73, Zack W9SZ -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: c
Without knowing what the person at the other end is doing, and how his S meter works, it is impossible to say why the change is reported as more than the power change Tony. Most S meters are pretty
Here we go again, people reading, what was not written, must be them liberal educational institutions :-) Did I say anything about Razors? Have you read carefully the first sentence? Have you tried t
I admit I am not able to comprehend what you are saying. A visit to an suitable institution might help me understand more about things like ionospheric heating and Razor beams....but I dislike the s
It seems that the idea of the bands being conditioned by the RF activity during a major contest is being proposed. The observation that conditions seem to deteriorate after the contest has also been
Let me try to explain what we have observed. We used to have skeds with OK2RZ (when I was VE3BMV) around 0000z on 40m. You get the feeling for signal strengths for particular propagation patterns. Yo
etc... Although I don't really understand this area at all, it seems to me to be reasonable to assume that there are definite non-linearity's in the ionosphere. How do the various layers change durin
I found similar effects are regular and reproducable on VHF. 2 or 3 time the week I schedule with a friend about 350km from my qth on 144Mc. When we start signal strength is around S9. After about 20
I certainly cannot argue with the logic (and physics) presented by Tree and Tom. If the concept were true, a lot of people were not doing their job a week and a half ago for the WPX contest. Well may
With all the tera watts that daily surround our bands, I don't believe our contest activity may cause any significant difference, except in those areas of the planet where contest stations radiate mo
be Very interesting Peter, I wonder if more work was done to see how selective in frequency the effect is? Would it be just on that particular frequency, or more broadband (so others can take "free"
Hi Yuri, When we re-quote someone, let's make some attempt to do it accurately. Clearly that is not what you stated, and it certainly is not how I responded. Let's not play "you said this, I said tha