>
> >I have never understood how so many 100W Europeans can be
> 40 to 60 dB below guys with 100W and tribanders. I can only
> envision paths obscured by mountains or antennas nearly on the
> ground. The QRP'ers with decent antennas blow right through
> the 100W guys with lousy antennas / locations.<
>
> Hi Tom : Your observations are correct but you would need to
> take a trip to Eu and take a look at the handicaps some of those
> guys have to endure to fully understand the situation.
>
I did a 500 mile bicycle tour of southern England some years back. We were
on the C and below roads (very narrow, high hedgerows) most of the time--it
was great....we went through a thousand small villages. The only shorwave
antennas I saw were those on the Admiralty building in London. I never saw
so much as a ground mounted vertical sticking up out of someone's garden or
even wires. It was depressing. Thank goodness for the pubs....
73,
dale, kg5u
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