Topband: Boring echoes

[Tom Rauch]

> If you ignore the power versus distance problem for a
moment, one of the
> harder things to imagine with really long delayed echoes
is how the CW
> signal stays coherent.  With delays that long - it would
take a very very
> very uniform transmission media to keep the signal
together.  No multi-path
> would be allowed at all.

I missed that.  Very good point.  One worth considering.

I hear smearing on normal backscatter or LDE (one second or
less) from stations like K9DX.

A tape or digital recorder would be perfect. The CW would be
readable.

73 Tom