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----- Original Message -----
From: "Merv Schweigert via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 9:33:19 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles
Not sure how long they were on, but I remember it was the years of
decent propagation
My experience hearing them was at the sunrise and sunset time to KH6.
I could hear many OH
stations and at no time was OH8X signal better than the other OH stations,
many OH were stronger. If I remember by the next season the antenna was
destroyed
by the weather. So it seemed to be short lived.
That was in 2008 and I worked them both sunrise and sunset times.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
> Does anyone know when OH8X was active on 160? The RBN archive goes back to
> 2009, snd it would be fairly easy to mine the archive.
> 73 Pete N4ZR
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:50 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband
>> <topband@contesting.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Another thought on this.
>>
>>
>> I visited W8JI's station some years ago where had the usual 4 square for 160
>> and also an inverted Vee at around 300 feet. He told me that the inverted
>> Vee seldom played as good as or better than the 4 square The 4 square was
>> usually much better.
>>
>>
>> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
>> To: topband <topband@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 7:34 pm
>> Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles
>>
>> 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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