Topband: Long Delayed Echoes

[Bill Tippett]

W8JI:
 >Either the real 80 meter distance miles-per-watt record, a
prankster, or a hoax.

         I always maintain a healthy dose of skepticism about things I 
don't understand, but I also try to keep
an open mind.  I often wonder what the guys who first
reported 80m long path openings must have thought
nearly 40 years ago:

K2RBT > 9M2DW  2JAN67  2201z (1st East Coast)
W6NLZ > EP2BQ 18DEC72  1454z (1st West Coast)

Sept 1975 CQ Magazine article by K6UA and W6KW (ex-W6NLZ)

Today there is still no scientific explanation for this,
yet the path is quite common under certain conditions.

         I got a note from YV5LIX who created a reflector
on LDE topics in March for any who may be interested.
That is the best place for further comments on LDE's.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lde-vlde/

                                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV

P.S.  If you thought 50 minutes was the distance record,
how about the 82.5 hour delay reported by JA3ONB on 160!
(last entry in the previously referenced article's Table)