Topband: Daylight QSO

[Tom Rauch]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy at sympatico.ca>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: Daylight QSO


> >I suggest we look at the actual paths using something
>>like DX Atlas to see whether we are really talking about
>>"daylight" or "twilight" with the sun at very low angles.
>
>
>
> In that case my East - West QSO's yesterday happened when 
> the terminator was
> ~9000 km to the East and ~11000 km to the West as per DX 
> Atlas. That's why
> it was decided to try at or about local noon - so there 
> would  be no
> twilight enhancements.


We shouldn't look just east or west, we should look along 
the direction of the path.