Good Morning all
This morning Japan was really loud into Ontario - 559 to 579 for all the
JA's. If you needed Japan on 160 this may have been your morning.
What happened here I have never seen before in a JA opening. There were
about half a dozen stations I had really good copy on and they were all
loudest by far on the 360 degree beverage - right over the pole and with no
trace of flutter on any signals. [ direct bearing from here is 330 degrees ]
Then two minutes later the only JA I heard was JA5DQH and he was now loudest
on the 270 beverage. To me it looked like the path was originally skewed 30
degrees East from my bearing [ 330 degrees ] to a direct polar path [ 360
degrees ] and then the polar path instantaneously shut down and a path 30
degrees West opened up here at 270 degrees. I say that because at the same
time the signals all dropped into the noise on the 360 beverage they
immediately picked up on the 270 beverage.
There were a few people working [ or trying to work ] the JA's this morning
so I wonder if anyone else noticed this??
If our JA friends read this maybe they also noticed a difference in the
direction of incoming North American signals this morning [ their evening ]
P.S. It could even happen again in 28 days.
73
Brian
VE3MGY
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