Topband: Soil conductivity maps

[John K9UWA]

Dave is 100% correct. If I were selecting a new QTH my priorities would be: 

#1 As far south in the country as possible due to better propagation.

#2 Noise issues. The property must be Large as in acres not in feet and inches in 
size. It must also be away from other homes and businesses. It really needs to be 
out in farming country well away from any possible chances of someone building a 
factory across the road. See post by Lee TJR. I know guys who can hear a 
Plazma TV set up to 1 mile away from their antennas. You don't need to put up 
with that if you own or are far enough away from others.

#3 Soil Conductivity that patch showing 30 in the very south of Texas looks good 
as long as #1 and #2 above are met.

John k9uwa only 29 left on my 160m Need List


> If you are interested in topband propagation. . .being located in the north, or
> at least the north central part, is not the optimum place to be.  Being on
> topband here in Iowa for the past three decades, I can attest that those to the
> south of me (even Missouri) enjoy consistently better prop to both EU and Asia. 
> Here in the upper midwest we are constantly fighting the aurora oval.  I am
> forever hearing guys roughly near my longitude but 400 - 1000 miles to the south
> working things that I cannot even detect.          73. . . Dave, W0FLS

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