Topband: 8 Circle Array Paper - Rev 1

[Bob McGwier]

I also viewed EY8MM as an outlier.  I would have suggested various skew 
propagation possibilities but Joel was flipping between different 
directions to eliminate this possibility according to his description to 
me.  My explanation is: welcome to 160m.


Bob
N4HY



Joel Harrison wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> EY8MM was the exception to all of the comparisons I recorded. Nodir was in
> for about 2 hours that evening at my QTH (the only time I've ever heard him
> on 160) so I had plenty of time to check and recheck to actually make sure
> my Beverage was working!! Your conclusion is correct, working him while
> listening on the Beverage would have been tough. I could copy him of course
> when the signal came out of the noise, and well enough to make the QSO, but
> it was nothing near the arm chair copy of the vertical array. 
>
> I can't explain the difference on this one, other than to say I know my
> numbers are correct and there was no problem with the Beverage. I could not
> copy Nodir at all on my loop.
>
> EY8MM is the only time I've seen such a difference as that. Most are
> comparable to the other charts in the paper and in some cases there is no
> difference between the two.
>
> 73 Joel W5ZN
>  
>   


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