Jim, What Alexey was referring to was DX-peditions in the Pacific
(FT5ZM was the Indian Ocean and produce some interesting antipodal paths
favoring the Midwest ) and I would agree with Alexey that most
operations in the Pacific have been very hard to work or even hear on
TopBand from this area. There were some exceptions perhaps due to
serious dedication to locating near the beach with excellent RX antennas
as well. They would include K9W and T33A. Also W8A made some effort to
make the ellusive American Samoa possible to work for me for a new one.
One of the classic mistakes with many of the Pacific DX-peditions is
repeated my some over and over and that is the look at the darn Grey
Line tool on their laptops to decided for them when they fire up on Top
Band for East Coast stations. This is normally 1 hours after my Sunrise
here in the Eastern Caribbean at 64.7 degrees WL so a contact is not
possible. More recently TX6G by coming on at his sunset, by design for
*all* of NA resulted in many contacts. Even though I can work across the
Pacific to ZL3IX (14,000 km) with ease any morning we try, anything in
between at half the distance is a totally different story.
At least by Pacific DX-peditions coming on Top Band at *their* sunset
IMHO it is more NA QSO productive plus they have propagation to Western
Europe often for well equipped stations who are often waiting and hoping
to get in their log for a new one.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 4/13/2014 3:04 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 4/12/2014 4:29 PM, ALEXEY OGORODOV wrote:
BTW pretty much every single pedition to the Pacific recently have
not performed well on low bands.
You must have slept through FT5ZM.
73, Jim K9YC
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