Jim,
Your points about understanding grey line propagation is right. I know
that they have been on almost everyday working just that. If you have a
great circle map located on your QTH you will see a very great difference
in paths between FT5ZM and TO7CC. FT5ZM was almost a East West path and
TO7CC is North South Path right through the intensity of the auroral
oval.... a much more difficult path by far. So I don't think I can expect
to hear TO7CC as easily as I did FT5ZM.
Rich K7ZV
> On 2/14/2014 11:04 AM, Kenneth Grimm wrote:the
>> They have said that they will operate through
>> their night if there is an opening on 80 and/or 160.
> They need to understand grey line propagation to work NA on 160 and 80,
and to realize that there's an opening to Zone 3/4 around their sunset and
our sunrise. FT5ZM did that to great advantage, working Zone 4/5 around
4/5 sunset and Zone 3/4 at sunrise. According to ClubLog, they made 3,571
Qs on Topband, of which 784 were to North America!
> 73, Jim K9YC
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