[TowerTalk] JA vs SA Re: Help in planning a new QTH

[Jim Lux]

Nope.. if you're in the midwest, JA and LU are almost exactly 180 degrees
apart.  Look at a globe and pull a piece of string from SA to Japan. Goes
right over Kansas, Ohio, etc. (depending on which Japanese island and what
part of SA)

I always forget just how far east of the US most of South America is.
Probably because you always think of "south of the border", when it's really
SouthEast of the border. Almost the entire continent is east of New York.

It's that round earth, things aren't what they seem on a flat map, thing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Jones K0HY" <k0hy at comcast.net>


> Unless you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean how can it be 180
> degrees from South America to JA land?  Looks more like 90 degrees to me.
>
> 73  Jim
>
> Peter Hutter wrote:
>
> >At W2ZQ, I was very impressed with the Steppir's 3 element beam during
> >the ARRL CWcontest. I didn't have another tribander for comparison, but
> >it seemed loud.  The F/B was consistently high across each band and I've
> >found the 180 degree flip feature to be very useful, especially working
> >South Americans during a JA run.