Beam South! (..eh..West!)

[Wilbert Knol]

> Trust me, We in the US have had the experience of calling the African 
> multipliers who could not hear us because Europe was so loud...
> 

...and we in the South Pacific have had the pleasure of hearing zone 
12 (3G1X springs to mind) loud & clear on 15, and not a hope of 
working  them...if only they had turned their beam away from the 
pile-up from the North. But...that is contesting! An omni-directional 
antenna would be an idea... 

Wilbert, ZL2BSJ.