[CQ-Contest] Ionospheric heating

[John Laney]

All the activity possible won't make contacts possible under certain
conditions.  Remember WAE CW last August?  I worked and worked to make about
135 contacts in 48 hours from GA to EU.   There was a lot of activity by big
stations in this contest, but propagation conditions were terrible despite
being near the top of the cycle (or maybe because of being at the top of the
cycle?).  73, John, K4BAI.

K8GT wrote:

 > I certainly cannot argue with the logic (and physics) presented by Tree
 > and Tom.  If the concept were true, a lot of people were not doing their
 > job a week and a half ago for the WPX contest.  Well maybe some wierdos
 > were 'cuz some of the propagation was certainly wierd.  Actually, the
 > fact that all of us are active during a contest will show up good
 > propagation paths, not the other way around.  As with "Conspiracy
 > theorists", they see "coincidence" and yell "conspiracy".
 >
 > 73, Gerry  K8GT
 >
 > Tom Rauch wrote:
 >  >
 >  >  > Here we go again, people reading, what was not written, must be them
 >  >  > liberal educational institutions :-)
 >  >
 >  > I admit I am not able to comprehend what you are saying. A visit to
 >  > an suitable institution might help me understand more about things
 >  > like ionospheric heating and Razor beams....but I dislike the school
 >  > jackets with velcro straps instead of buttons.
 >  >
 >  >  > I am not talking about ME heating the "ionosphere" (maybe just a very
 >  >  > little), but the multitude of kilokilowats during the contests. I am
 >  >  > not the first or only one who noticed the "conditioning" of
 >  >  > frequencies during the contests.
 >  >
 >  > Let me put on my thinking cap and see if I follow this logic.
 >  >
 >  > Case 1
 >  >
 >  > It can't be done with a multi-megawatt ERP signal from HAARP,
 >  > they miss by a factor of about 10,000 times when the energy is
 >  > aimed at one tiny area of the sky.
 >  >
 >  > They try this where heating or ionization is most likely to occur,
 >  > since absorption is highest up near the pole. They are unsucessful.
 >  >
 >  > Case 2
 >  >
 >  > WE can do this with 2000 people running kilowatts on multiple
 >  > frequencies with antennas pointed in all different directions and all
 >  > different wave angles, and signals spread all over the earth.
 >  >
 >  >  > Sheesh, if it wasn't written up by Dr. Soandso nor proclaimed by Mr.
 >  >  > Rauch it can't be so? Maybe there are people who know something you
 >  >  > don't know yet Tom :-) Looks like fourth egg in the face coming up?
 >  >
 >  > The theory fairy visits all of us from time to time, and sometimes
 >  > she gives some of us a two-handed WHACK with her imagination-
 >  > bat instead of a gentle two-finger tap with her imagination-wand.
 >  >
 >  > Most of us eventually snap out of it.
 >  >
 >  > 73, Tom W8JI
 >  > W8JI at contesting.com
 >  >
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>From David Hachadorian" <k6ll at earthlink.net  Sat Apr  7 14:42:06 2001
From: David Hachadorian" <k6ll at earthlink.net (David Hachadorian)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:42:06 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Two interesting items
Message-ID: <00e101c0bf68$a83937c0$44c49d40 at hkyxytrz>


A couple of interesting items for
contesters.

Regarding the next WRTC, is this URL for real?
There certainly hasn't been any fanfare that I've seen.

http://www.qsl.net/oh1noa/wrtc2002/general.htm


Secondly, regarding Miniprop (quoted from ARRL
Propagation Bulletin ARLP015):

"For some time now W6EL's MiniProp
program for propagation prediction
has been unavailable. This is the
program used to generate the
occasional path predictions shown in
this bulletin. I am extremely
happy to report that W6EL has just
released a new free version of
his software, this time for Windows, and
you can get it at
http://www.qsl.net/w6elprop/. It works
with all recent versions of
Windows, including 95, 98, ME, NT and
2000. Be sure to give this a
try, and send W6EL a note of thanks. It
is a great piece of software
for looking at seasonal, time of day,
frequency and solar activity
variables and their effects on HF
communications."

I just ran it, and it looks great!

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL


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