[TowerTalk] 160 vertical question (Top Hat)

[Wes Stewart]

With my modest inverted-L, used on both TX and RX and 500W on CW, I've worked 33 
DXCC entities this year.

Some of them, although not rare, aren't commonly worked from here on any band.  
Andorra, Guernsey, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania leap to mind.

I guess I'm too ignorant about Auroral Ovals, Electron Gyrofrequencies, skewed 
paths, X and Os and all of that other stuff to ever understand this band, so I 
just get on and listen. Generally, if I can hear them, I can work them, absent 
W1, 2, 3, 4 and 8 QRM, that is.

Wes  N7WS


    On 2/4/2018 11:55 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> Anywhere west of Salt Lake City is tough to EU. I've heard only five EU 
> signals in four years, and worked two of them, both SM stations, one on JT65 
> last season and and one on FT8 a month ago.  I heard and made many calls to a 
> station in eastern EU a week or so ago, but he didn't hear me. Same for an EA 
> during CQWW160.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On 2/4/2018 10:30 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
>> It could be worse; you could be in southern Arizona.
>>
>> Wes  N7WS
>>
>> On 2/4/2018 9:48 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Now for some propagation to EU from suffering sevens land - Redmond, WA.  
>>> It's Unobtainium.
>
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