Topband: Palmyra cursed paradise (K5P)

[Art Snapper]

I wonder how good the ground conductivity is on an atoll? Perhaps elevating
the radials would help.

My $0.02 of pure speculation.


Art NK8X
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Doug Turnbull <turnbull at net1.ie> wrote:

> Dear OMs and Yls,
>      The following link was posted me by Don EI6IL and tells a very
> interesting story of woe and murder on Palmyra Island going back to the
> very
> discovery of the atoll.    Slightly off topic but many of us have illusions
> of working K5P so this may be of interest and also add a bit of spice.
>  The
> cursed paradise is a good read:
>
> http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/07/the-cursed-paradise-of-palmyra-atoll/
>
>
>       Yes EU feels the W6 pain this time and the poor cousins of EI in DL
> and I lands are even worse off than in EI for K5P.   At least the EI path
> is
> over ocean and tundra rather than thousands of fellow hams.
>
>        Good hunting.
>                  73 Doug EI2CN
>
>
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