Topband: CQ WW CW 160m observations (high angle)

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Next few years might be full of such stuff. Time to figure out our 160m
maxi-plans.

73, Guy.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Roger Parsons <ve3zi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interesting observation Guy. I noticed what I am almost certain was very
> high angle propagation on Sunday evening at sunset when I was only able to
> hear Europe on my low dipole (very low, about 20' so a real cloud warmer).
> I could not hear them at all on Beverages, SAL, or receive 4 square or
> transmit antennas. They could not hear me at all on my transmit antennas
> which are low angle. After an hour or so of this everything normalised and
> the 'better' receive antennas became just that. Fairly soon after that the
> contest was over. I have noticed this sort of effect before but never to
> this extreme extent.
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> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
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