Hi Roger,
My experience is consistent with almost all topband operators:
"160 needs vertical polarization for consistent long DX."
I've had 160 horizontal dipoles at 100 feet and 200 feet high and
I've never experienced a situation where their performance
approached the consistent excellent performance of my verticals.
As they say YMMV.
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:48:51 PM
Subject: Topband: Topband resource
"However, 160 needs vertical polarization for consistent long DX."
So how is it that I consistently work all over the world on 160m with my
horizontal dipole at 50ft?! (and my signals seem to often be pretty
comparable with other Brits using verticals}
You certainly need a Vertical to work DX on 80m . . . but in my experience
160m propagation is very different . . . I'm guessing it's often quite high
angle due to multi-hop or ducting.
Also, I don't understand why on the Web page they are talking about NA
stations coming on Top Band at 1730 UTC to work Europe . . . I don't find
the band opens to NA until at least 2200 . . . and for me signals are always
much better after midnight.
Roger G3YRO
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