[CQ-Contest] Echoes

[Pete Smith]

I tried to work one station - a W1 - whose echo was so bad that I could 
not copy him.  Sounded like 100 ms at least.  In any case, I worked him 
an hour later, on backscatter, with no echo at all.  It's fun working 
the close-in ghuys this way.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 12/12/2011 9:31 AM, Art Boyars wrote:
> Re: K1TN's post --
>
> I heard the "nornal" echoes from the northeasterly stations (KA1ZD in CT;
> the loud Europens) Sunday morning.  I figured that stations with (big)
> directive antennas might be getting some LP QSOs.  Here, with the dipole,
> it was just an annoyance.  Not having QSK (Sigh!), I would not have heard
> my own echoes, if any.
>
> Back around 1970 at W9YT we pointed the 20M beam (5 or 6 elements) NE along
> the gray line; sunset, as I recall.  With QSK, we sent a short dit, and
> heard our own signal about 140 msec later.
>
> Maybe it's a Wisconsin thing.
>
> 73, Art K3KU
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