Topband: What do you use as a "Run" antenna?

[Merv Schweigert]

>I think if you check back a few weeks you'll find a pretty good 
>explanation from Tom, W8JI, on why that happens.  A quick summary is 
>that, in the hour or so just before sunset, your signals headed eastward 
>are attenuated much more than the signals coming from the east.  It 
>isn't that they aren't listening, they really can't hear you ... or 
>actually us, since I experience the same thing from here in Arizona.
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True and not true,  it happens all the time here and you can tell
that the stations in question are most of the time listening on a
EU or ? antenna,  reason I say that is I have worked carribean
of farther stations at the same time the w4 or w3 etc that is
599 here will not answer,   So many are being deaf due to
operator lack of understanding propagation and sunrise/sunset
times in other places in the world. 
Have had many hear a something and then switch listening
antennas to the west and comment " wow didnt know we
could work KH6 this early in the evening" 
So partial signal asborbtion before sunset, and partial operator
error for not listening this direction when it is sunset.
K9FD/KH6