Bill Tippett wrote:
> It's been a weird experience in the evenings to
>tune across the band using a Beverage toward Europe.
>European signals sound like locals (S9+) and Western
>NA signals sound like DX.
>
Here in upstate NY I have two very short Beverages -- one "sorta" NE
(300 feet) and one "sorta" NW (200 feet). Usually they give me only a
few dB of differential gain or rejection. But last night was quite
unusual. N6TR and I called a European station simultaneously at one
point. I didn't even realize Tree was in there until the EU station
came back to him. I switched to the NW Beverage and Tree went from
inaudible to 589 ! From then on, I switched back and forth between the
two Beverages at each mini-pile-up I came across, and I had similar
results with at least another five or six west coast USA and both
western Canada stations I heard -- plus, of course, KL7HBK.
> I believe this is due to
>the very low-angle propagation since Beverages work
>best (max F/R) at very low angles. See the very
>bottom of the web page above for an elevation plot
>of an end-fire Beverage array.
>
>
There have been many nights when I've been ready to tear down my short
Beverages. After last night, they're "keepers" !!!
Using W6EL MiniProp's Frequency Map this morning with K=1, I had to
crank the solar flux up to 120 to simulate this morning's 15-meter
opening to Europe from this 44-degree northern latitude. Interesting,
coming on the heels of the last few nights' topband conditions.
Bud, W2RU
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