[RTTY] VK/ZL Backscatter on 15M

[Tom Homewood]

I operated from K1TTT in the CQ WW SSB Test.  I worked several JAs on 15
beaming about 90 degrees at I am guessing 0700.  Heard some others coming
from that direction, KL7 was one.  The band is usually pretty dead at that
time here.

Tom, W1TO

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Subject: [RTTY] VK/ZL Backscatter on 15M


> I hardly believed it when I couldn't copy VK4WPX with the
> beam to the west.  I could only copy him with the beam to the
> Northeast on 15M.  I thought it was a bit strange.  So I put the
> beam back to Northeast and copied his ten QTC's!
>
> Then ZL2BMH calls me.  I hear him, my beam is Northeast so
> I swing it Southwest and he disappears!
>
> It's got to be some sort of backscatter.  But I've never seen it
> like this to VK/ZL on 15M before.  Guess 30 years of hamming,
> having seen everything!
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com
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