[WriteLog] Long Path

[K4SB]

> I observed some very interesting behavior on 20 m Sunday morning
> (Chicago time). I use only dipoles and a vertical here. For several
> hours around 1500Z, I was hearing many northern European stations on
> both short path and long path at nearly the same level. The delay
> between the two arrivals was such that it made the signals virtually
> impossible to copy
> Jim K9YC
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Somehow, I think from Jim's description that the signals were not
"long delay echos", but rather different path's, based on the delay
described. I've only heard a lda twice in my ham life, and believe me,
you could copy it without any trouble. Short skip on 10 with a ham in
SC if I remember correctly. Hearing that last dit of my call clearing
about 1/4 second after transmit ended was spooky.

Based on last weekend's activity, I would bet one was direct and the
other an equatorial.

73
Ed