Topband: 1.99 and beacons

[GEORGE WALLNER]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 19:22:22 EDT
  W7lr at aol.com wrote:
>Most 
>estimates have been for better propagation at 1.99 >compared to the low end. 

My QTH is at EL95. It is probably the most distant CONUS 
low band station from Tree's QTH. Almost a DX. Both theory 
and intuition suggest that 1.99 MHz should be better for 
long distance communications than 1.80 MHz. The issue is 
how much better? Is the difference worth the trouble of 
changing existing patters of operation and antennas?

I have been listening to Tree's beacon but I am very 
reluctant to come to any conclusion after such a short 
time. I hope Tree will be kind enough to run the beacons 
for some time so we can have more time and more samples. 
(On May 5 at 0500 I had a somewhat promising experience 
listening to the beacons: on 1.9995 it was barely audible. 
On 1.8005 I could not hear it. This was the case both on 
my TX vertical and on my EU pennant. I was not listening 
to both FRQ at the same time, so it could have been 
QSB...)

I think we need more time...

73,

George
AA7JV