Topband: daylight QSOs during the SP

[k3bu at optonline.net]

> Bud W2RU summed it up nicely with respect to VE3MGY's query 
> about 
> propagtion on 160m in daylight.
> 
> A station running 1000W to a vertical and having a quiet noise 
> environment should be able to work other similar stations out to 
> 1500 km 
> or so during the day - maybe even a bit farther with 1500W and a 
> 4-Square. Yes, there is D region absorption, but power, antenna 
> gain, 
> and a low noise enviroment compensate for this.
> 
> See the May/June 2006 NCJ for more details.
> Carl K9LA
> 
> 

Nothing unusual, IG9/IV3TAN was coming through  S9 around 2 pm in VE1 land, not bad with "Italian 300W" and single vertical.
Example of world propagation focused on Lampedusa, absence of D layer and enhanced conductivity and ionized gyro gama particles jus' lined up right.

Yuri VE1BY