[CQ-Contest] Echo

[Gargarella, Arturo]

I fully agree with Geo's theory.

I've been hearing my echo on 10 meters
everytime the propagation is good.

73 de Arturo, LU6ETB

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Richard Thorne wrote:
> > 
> > This also happened at K5NA's station over the weekend on 10m.  I thought
> I was
> > hearing things.
> 
> 
> 
> This happens all the time.
> 
> What you are all hearing is a backscatter return of your
> signal.  When the conditions are very good in the direction 
> you are beaming you will sometimes hear this echo. 
> 
> If you have large high gain antennas you will hear this more 
> often - since there is more gain on TX and RX in your high gain 
> system.  
> 
> Some 6 meter ops have been known to use CW and QSK and 
> move the antenna around until they start hearing the 
> scatter echoes - they then know they are beaming in a direction
> where the band is open. 
> 
> 
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