[CQ-Contest] Ionospheric heating

[Tom Rauch]

 > I found similar effects are regular and reproducable on VHF.
 > 2 or 3 time the week I schedule with a friend about 350km from
 > my qth on 144Mc.
 > When we start signal strength is around S9.
 > After about 20 minutes signals are up to 9+20 and stay that high. ERP
 > on both sites is around 120KW.

Did you schedules always start at the same time, or were they
random times?

Why didn't the local broadcast stations, with megawatts of ERP,
keep the path open?


73, Tom W8JI
W8JI at contesting.com 


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