[SECC] Stupid Question - Where to point Beam?

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Bill...

 Put a simple 2nd antenna that is multi directional,like a dipole/vertical. If you can't make the qso then turn the beam. This is what many of the people who do SO2R do...

                          Jeff


> 
> From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net>
> Date: 2003/04/01 Tue AM 08:16:02 EST
> To: <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: [SECC] Stupid Question - Where to point Beam?
> 
> 
> OK, I'm going to ask what may seem if not stupid, but an obvious 
> question. After over six years contesting with single-element antennas, 
> now that I have a beam, I don't always know where to turn it.
> 
> This weekend, on Sunday afternoon, it seemed like signals were coming 
> from all directions at once on 10m. Even stations that were out west 
> seemed strongest beaming south east. 
> 
> I also had the experience in the 10m contest where I was beaming west 
> toward JA. Once the JAs disappeared, the band seemed so quiet as to be 
> closed. The first night, I went QRT. The second night, I pointed the beam 
> north and ran stations for over 2 hours.
> 
> So, where do you point your beam over the weekend? And if you S & P, how 
> do you avoid turning the beam for each QSO (other than be like NQ4I and 
> have antennas pointing in three directions at once)?
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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