Topband: JT1 Polar Path

[KN4LF, Thomas Giella]

Tom W8JI Said:
.....> Path may be almost always predictable as the shortest route when
> distances are small, but not when people are half-way around the
> world from each other.
> Scan those skew path antennas, and don't spend much time
> looking over the pole unless you are on 20 meters or higher!!

Thomas KN4LF Says:
That's true, it would take an extended period of little in the way of
magnetic disturbances to QSO on the true short path over the pole on 160.
The SE-S signal skewing is the result of the transmitted signal taking the
propagation path of least resistance/absorption on a longer lower latitude
path, away from proton absorption and the higher gyro frequency absorption.

73,
Thomas Giella, KN4LF