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Topband: Daylight 160 Sked

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Subject: Topband: Daylight 160 Sked
From: "Lee K7TJR" <k7tjr@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:58:21 -0800
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     Well that was a very interesting daylight test this a.m. . My Beverages 
were very noisy today as was the TX vertical. Only station heard and worked 
easily was K8IA at about 920 miles. Very large and slow QSB swings . The noise 
on the TX vertical is about s5-6 today and K8IA was above that at s-7 to 8 most 
of the time. Most interesting to me was the RX antennas. My Beverage antennas 
(1kft long) seemed noisy this a.m. like the TX antenna (1 extra s-unit). 
    K8IA was in and out of the noise on them both with QSB. Most interesting 
was the short vertical array that produced at least 6db or more S/N improvement 
over the other antennas on reception. Normally the small verticals would be 
equal to the Beverage . Wish I would have recorded and/or measured the 
difference in readability (I use Spectran to guage SNR) as it was huge. 
     Most interesting! I think 1000 miles seems quite doable but 2000 has not 
happened yet here. And, you can never have too many antennas. 
   Lee K7TJR Oregon

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