Topband: Long Path Direction!

[Arne Gjerning]

Rick and all

Just a guess here.  Maybe this is due to the rate at which the various
layers might change from "daylight" to "darkness" conditions.  Does someone
know if this has any affect?

73 de Arne N7KA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: <w7dddd at msn.com>
Cc: <Topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Long Path Direction!


> D Andersen said:
> > On occasions I hear hams talking about the direction of the long path.
> > It seems that many hams think that the "long path" is the inverse of the
> > "short path.  In reality it is the direction of the gray line.  Right
> > now the long path is about 175 degrees in the morning.  A couple of
> > months ago it was about 200 degrees.  This excludes skewed paths which
> > occur here and there.
> >
> > Don, w7dd
>
> What I don't understand is this:  if both stations are on the gray line,
> why would the propagation be better on the long path than the short path?
> Both paths are 100% in "grayness", ie neither daylight nor darkness.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
>
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