Topband: Question about KH1 to EU QSO possibilities with respect to auroral oval

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

IARU was going on and lots of people are on 6m for E skip season.  I 
have been leaving my rcv on 6m not 160 lately.

W0MU


On 7/14/2018 7:50 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> Agree. At my QTH 47.6 N (Seattle) the oval is almost always in the way 
> to EU so long path on 80 is more reliable winter months if the EU's 
> hang around for the west coast sunrise.   So far EU on 160 has been 
> very difficult.  Not complaining since I was one of the lucky 120 that 
> worked KH1 on TB ft8.
>
> Last night I tried TB FT8 and had decent pskreporter S/N reports to 
> all of east coast at 0400Z but nobody there was on the air.  So even 
> with summer being "dead" on TB that may not always be true. No EU 
> reports 'tho, but not many reporting stations either.
>
> Grant KZ1W
>
> On 7/14/2018 9:49 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>> There was a lot of discussion about the Baker Is. Dxpedition
>> implying that the main impediment as to where they could work
>> was mutual darkness.  Here in W6, we have many hours of mutual
>> darkness with EU, yet we rarely hear EU on 160 or even 80 meters.
>> (Except 80 meter long path during our morning).
>> The auroral oval hypothesis seems to be proven by the fact that
>> we can still work the Azores and northern Africa, and maybe
>> just barely southern Portugal, but nothing farther north.
>> Except for occasional exceptional propagation, during which
>> EU becomes a chip shot for the night.
>>
>> Why should anyone expect to have KH1 to EU propagation directly
>> over the north pole even in the presence of mutual darkness,
>> except as a rare fluke?
>>
>> 73
>> Rick N6RK
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