Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles

[Pete]

Does anyone know when OH8X was active on 160? The RBN archive goes back to 2009, snd it would be fairly easy to mine the archive. 
73 Pete N4ZR

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:50 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Another thought on this.
> 
> 
> I visited W8JI's station some years ago where had the usual 4 square for 160 and also an inverted Vee at around 300 feet.  He told me that the inverted Vee seldom played as good as or better than the 4 square  The 4 square was usually much better.
> 
> 
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix at inet.net.nz>
> To: topband <topband at contesting.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 7:34 pm
> Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles
> 
> Hi Carl,
> 
> OH8X was active for some months when I was making Qs with Eu, in 
> particular OH. I never heard them at all, although I have no idea of 
> exactly when they were QRV. My guess is that if their monster antenna 
> had produced results, they would have been a lot more active. We can 
> certainly draw inferences from that!
> 
> In contrast, I have made many Qs with other guys running good stations 
> with vertical Tx, such as OH2MA and OH3XR. In fact if there is any 
> propagation at all between ZL and Eu, OH is often one of the first areas 
> to benefit.
> 
> Conclusion - OH-ZL is not a particularly difficult path, and if the OH8X 
> antenna had been effective, I would have easily heard them.
> 
> 73, Greg, ZL3IX
>> It would have been great to have had the OH8X 160m Yagi up for a long time
>> so RBN could have been used to compare it to nearby vertical antennas. It
>> would have shown how much of this theory is applicable in the real world.
>> 
>> 
> 
> _________________
> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
> 
> _________________
> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband