Peter G. Viscarola wrote: > Forgive a relative newbie if this is a dumb question:
For me...not at alll.... > My QTH is East Cost USA (about 50 miles north of Boston). I've been > working PSK31 (and other digital modes) a few hours a day for about 4 > months now. I haven't once even HEARD a station in Asia or Oceania. Mine is in the same time zome....just twentysome degrees south of you. Neither have I. > I've had pretty good luck into Europe, and I have QSOs as far south > as southern Africa (Namibia, Zambia, etc). And of course in good > throughout the US, into the caribbean, and down into central and > (parts of) South America. Me too....as far east as Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, southern Russia... > Am I simply listening at the wrong time, or in the wrong place to > find Asia/Oceania? Am I doing something else wrong? Or is my setup > here (TS-2K barefoot and a dipole at 60 feet) simply too humble to > allow my signal to make the 6700 mile journey from Boston to Tokyo? Possibly it is too humble....and there is a catch....there is too much activity on SSB on 7070, and a chinese over the horizon radar on the lower edge of the band. As I read in QST many years ago : You've gotta hear'em to work'em.... And it is very hard for them to hear across the largest body of water on Earth with so much CRUD. At least, that's what I rememberthat VK2QQ told me a few days ago. > I'd appreciate a little elmering from the list on this topic... I will try to run VOACAP later and see what happens from Havana to Hong Kong on 7 MHz... I need fresh solar data...will look for it and throw some numbers at that path. Hope some time of day will show an open path. > TIA, > > de Peter K1PGV 73, Jose, CO2JA
