[UK-CONTEST] Aircraft Reflection Path Plot

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Ken
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On 9 Jan 2012, at 22:50, Ken Eastty <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 
>  Aircraft Reflection Path Plot (Ray James) -
> 
> Thanks for that Ray, this is no doubt the mechanism which permits 
> reception of GB3ANG here (IO81WV) on 2 & 4m for most of the time 
> providing there's plenty of traffic in the airway between Manchester & 
> EI. It's a pity that the plots don't include the height at which an 
> aircraft would have to be flying for it to be 'seen' from both ends of 
> the path but I suppose that it only takes a few moments to calculate it.
> 
> So far I've not heard GM8RBR's  new 10W beacon on Skye (IO67UF) on 70.1 
> Mc/s except via ms. The typical height of most airliners would seem to 
> be insufficient to act as a reflector over this path.
> 
> 73...
> 
> Ken
> 
> G3LVP
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