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[Lee STRAHAN]

   And from the Northwest I have a slightly different observation of horizontal/vertical questions. What I have noticed is this. I more or less equate Horizontal antennas with high angle and vertical with low. The EU stations are usually mostly looking West into the setting sun. The East coast stations are looking into the total darkness toward EU mostly. Here in the Northwest we look into darkness toward EU and the East coast. I mention this because observations of high angle signals are VERY rare looking East toward EU. Maybe twice in 10 years. However looking West toward the setting sun and JA and UA0 I often see signals start early on the low angle vertical antennas and progress toward high angle signals in a same setting. The low horizontal takes over as the signals apparently get to a higher angle. I am about 200 miles from the Pacific. I have on my project list (way way down it) to build a high angle, low elevation horizontal array with a high RDF and gain just to see what it would do. Unfortunately it stays way down the list.
   For me Frank LPL says it all " You can never have too many antennas... 
Unless they interfere with each other, a non-trivial issue."
Lee   K7TJR   OR


It's more than antennas. There's also propagation. You're 700 miles ESE of me, which gives you a path to EU over less of the auroral zone.

AND there's noise, which has been increasing over time. My first years in W6 were more productive for CW on Topband than now -- I have a dozen or so countries in the log from the solar minimum of those earlier years.

73, Jim K9YC

On 1/15/2020 6:21 AM, Wes wrote:
> Roger is in my logbook, along with at least five other "G" stations.  
> My station is described on my QRZ page.  I receive on the TX antenna.
> 
> Wes  N7WS

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