[TowerTalk] 40 Meters

[Tom McAlee]

Warren,

The 40m signals from Asia to NA in the morning hours are short path.  In the
morning, the long path from NA to Asia is mostly all daylight; not too good
for propogating 40m signals!  But, the short path is all darkness at that
time.

In the evening, the short path from NA to Asia is filled with daylight and
the long path is darkness (provided there is enough hours of darkness to
fill it, which happens in the winter).

73,
Tom, NI1N

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WarrenWolff at aol.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:42 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] 40 Meters


> At the risk of sounding really stupid and having never had  an
> antenna that I could point for 40 M (those days changing  soon), I will
risk
> stating that perhaps the 40 meter signals  you seek are coming long path.
>
> Many, many years ago, I was trying to work EP2AF from  Hawaii (20 M).
> My, then, XYL was very stressed when I  came home after work and spent
> hours trying to figure how to slip in between all the CA  stations.  Never
> heard the fellow over 3 months of trying!!  One evening,  I turned the
> cheapo beam around and Lo and behold,  EP2AF called me long path!!
> Worked every WAZ station in that area in  the next half hour.
>
> Best of luck,  Warren;  W5KKW