Denny:
I lived on a hilltop in Connecticut, line of site to the ocean. I worked 80 -
140 mile ground wave regularly with a rotary dipole along the shore and 50 -
100 miles inland away from the shore. This was in the mid to late 1970's with
tube and hybrid gear of the day. 100 miles should be no problem with decent
antennas and a low noise floor.
From here just north of Buffalo, NY, working 70 - 90 miles on the K1JT digital
modes, JT9/65 & FT8, no problem. I run assorted horizontal antennas, but no
beams.
Your other possibility would be backscatter. If you were copying your 100 mile
DX the same time the South American signals were in there would make
backscatter a very good possibility. There are always variables to surprise
one...
73, Keith, WB2VUOAmherst, NY: Grid FN02ox
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-------- Original message --------From: Dennis Stice <wi5v.be@xxxxxxxxx> Date:
9/14/17 16:24 (GMT-05:00) To: hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [HFbeacons]
Re: Ten Spots
Thanks for the spot Lou. 100 miles is either very good group wave , tropo, or
very short sporadic E I guess.
BTW I fired up the CB conversion you gave me and put it on a dummy load. It
managed to splatter the front end of my nearby RBN setup on numerous 10 meter
frequencies. Not to worry. They probably only went a few feet before
dissapating. 73 Denny wi5v
On Sep 14, 2017 3:06 PM, "Louis Nix" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Band pretty quiet. Did hear what someone called "taxis on the fives". AM sigs.
As of 2:45 PM CST in Oklahoma:
K5AB. 28.280
WB5DXZ. 28.2889 GW
WI5V. 28.2558 Lake
PY4MAB. 28.274
73, Lou WD5GLO
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