Hello Keith and thanks for contributing to the discussion. I too have been
able to make regular ground wave QSOs on 2 meters into Dallas, about 180
miles away, and on 40 and 80 meter contacts as well. On 10 meters, the path
loss is much worse as you probably know. Also, my lake beacon has the
Arbuckle Mountains about 2/3 the distance between OKC and the lake. That
kind of knocks out of the equation any direct line of sight capability. I
have easily listened to AM radio from Oklahoma City traveling there, and
as soon as I go over the mountains, the OKC station becomes barely able to
be heard. I then switch to the Dallas Morning News station, no problem.
Back scatter is interesting to consider, especially in light of TE today.
I'm going to read up on that. You may have something there.
Tks!
73 Denny , wi5v
On Sep 14, 2017 3:58 PM, "wkhibbert" <wkhibbert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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, WB2VUO
Amherst, 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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