Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles

[GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv@atlanticbb.net>]

Greg,
In concert with HA7RY (Tomi), one night I was monitoring OH8X while the 
monster Yagi was still up. At Tomi's QTH (in Hungary) it was very loud. I 
could barely copy it in FL.
I worked EU stations that were much stronger. I think the antenna was too 
low and there was too much high-angle radiation. If they just would have 
made it vertical...
73,
George.
AA7JV

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 08:33:17 +1300
 Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> OH8X was active for some months when I was making Qs with Eu, in particular OH. 
> I never heard them at all, although I have no idea of exactly when they were 
> QRV. My guess is that if their monster antenna had produced results, they would 
> have been a lot more active. We can certainly draw inferences from that!
>
> In contrast, I have made many Qs with other guys running good stations with 
> vertical Tx, such as OH2MA and OH3XR. In fact if there is any propagation at 
> all between ZL and Eu, OH is often one of the first areas to benefit.
>
> Conclusion - OH-ZL is not a particularly difficult path, and if the OH8X 
> antenna had been effective, I would have easily heard them.
>
> 73, Greg, ZL3IX
> > It would have been great to have had the OH8X 160m Yagi up for a long time
> > so RBN could have been used to compare it to nearby vertical antennas. It
> > would have shown how much of this theory is applicable in the real world.
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