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Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

To: Art Snapper <art@nk8x.net>, TopBand List <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning
From: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 15:33:27 -0400
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Having worked LU and CX on 2 meters SSB (100 watts 7 element beam) without any ionospheric skip in the strange ducting FAI mode that is at time formed by the magnetic field at the equator, i say that anything is possible. But the idea of a multiple moderate angle skip with so many hops around the world and twice is IMHO really all that probable.

On 2/5/2017 3:13 PM, Art Snapper wrote:
I am wondering if there is a backscatter type condition that can also slow
down the Vp.

Art NK8X
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Tree <tree@kkn.net> wrote:

I once had a very strong echo on 160.

The delay was about 225 milliseconds - which equates to a distance of about
42K miles.

You can listen to it here.  It is so strong that you won't believe that is
really the echo.  I send two dits and hear two dits come back.

http://www.kkn.net/n6tr/sounds/echo.wav

It appears this was from 1997 - I posted about it here:

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00136.html

I remember hearing similar echos on my 75 meter signal during a California
QSO Party when I was operating at K6NA's QTH back in 1987 or 1988.

Tree N6TR

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Arthur Delibert <radio75a3@msn.com> wrote:

Approximately how much delay was there between your transmission and the
echo?


--Art Delibert, KB3FJO


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From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of on7eh <
on7eh@skynet.be>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:32 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

For the first time,
I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC.
They lasted for at least 1 hour, with some OFF-periods in between.
I had to quit at 06 UTC. (still 1 hour before surise)

The echoes were loudest on the short Beverages (<60m long) heading N/S
and
NE/SW and several dB lower on the NW/SE Beverage. (about 130m long).
The Tx setup is modest with Elecraft K3/100 and inv L at 15m height,
sloping down to 11m.

Only DX heard that morning was USA (typical condictions) so I wonder what
else does hearing echoes indicate?


73,
Michel, ON7EH



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