[TowerTalk] Bored at airport

Stan Stockton wa5rtg at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 21:45:08 EST 2017


On previous post I meant to say ground plane vertical.

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> On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Coming back from Carribean.  During the contest last weekend I spent a lot of time listening or trying to get 10m to open.  Almost everyone I worked from Cayman Brac was in NM or West of that.  I did work a K9 in Illinois who was consistently S9 and never heard another station within 600 miles of him. 
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> I sent him an email to find out just what he might have been using for an antenna.  The answer was something I've never heard anyone using before - a ground up over 2 WL (70 feet high).  
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> I never heard any of the big stations like K9CT in same state, etc.  Anyone have a possible explanation?
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> 73... Stan, ZF9CW
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