Topband: VP8STI Humor, Design engineer trauma

[Brad Rehm]

Lee,

No one's mentioned the "Spotlight" phenomenon, which occasionally happens
on 160.  The signal comes shining down from the "upper layers" and
illuminates a very small area.  Stations lucky enough to be in the covered
spot get to work the DX.  Everyone else, well...

Can't remember where I read about this, but it would mean that your being
250 miles from the other station might place you well out of the covered
area.  You'd never hear the DX, regardless of how many antennas you had.

Brad  KV5V

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed. Thanks.
>
> 73, Mike
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> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Lee STRAHAN <k7tjr at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > ... Bear in mind the fact that one can never have enough receiving
> > antennas at any given time. The ionosphere is a fickle beast at best.
> >
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