Text 5251, 63 rader
Skriven 2012-05-06 04:16:13 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 5237 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: anybody with a dx prefixes map or chart?
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02 May 12 20:42, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 Roy>> I found a DL7xx/YO3 operating portable in Bucharest on
 Roy>> QRZ.COM...can't find it today. Bucharest TZ is +2 UTC...dunno if
 Roy>> they're on DST there.

 RW> Okay, would've been after sunup at his qth then. Interesting!

Back scatter?

 RW>> Again very interesting.  I'd guess transpolar path maybe, I
 RW>> heard him calling others after I  worked him, and then he
 RW>> was out like a light, but right before then I was hearing
 RW>> New Zealand, and as I said, vessels south of the equator
 RW>> quite well, i actually ran a couple relays for the pacific
 RW>> maritime net last night, with my puny 100w and a dipole.

 Roy>> Sounds like fun.

 RW> IT indeed was.  Twenty seems to be opening up again late
 RW> nights for us.  IF you've an antenna for it and are up late
 RW> at night give a spin through the band, you might be
 RW> surprised.

Don't have any working equipment for 20...TS520 needs PS work. Best I can
do is 10m with a HR2510...During the day, that band is hot too.

 RW>> YOu know, I think it's a bit funny, one leg of my 80m dipole i put
 RW>> up late last week runs parallel with my 20, though I tried to avoid
 RW>> it, and probably about 1/4 wavelength distance between it and the
 RW>> 20, so I figure that leg is acting as a director or reflector,
 RW>> probably a reflector.

 Roy>> Interesting. Is the 20m leg facing (parallel to) SW, towards NZ or
 Roy>> NE towards Europe?

 RW> <hmmm>  Let me describe it a bit.  The 20 is the easternmost of the
 RW> two, basically running n/s along its length, probably cocked just a
 RW> hair nw/se.

 RW> The 80 is more to the west, with one leg running pretty much parallel
 RW> to the 20, with the other lig more at a diagonal off to the sw to a
 RW> tree in the front yard.

 RW> So, I'd say we're probably favoring Europe a bit, as well as
 RW> equatorial pacific a some as well.  WAsn't what I intended but i'll
 RW> take it!  Works for my primary activity on 20m well enough.

I havn't done much with antennas since we moved here in 05. It's always
too hot to run coax in the attic where I can drop it down into the shack
and it looks like I've missed another opportunity to do so again this
year. Maybe able to get to it in the late fall now.


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