On 3/12/2011 7:25 PM, Bill Dzurilla wrote:
> I was giving a presentation at our club meeting called Working
> DX on the Satellites and afterwards someone had a good
> question: is it at all possible that tropo, skip, or other
> form of enhanced propagation can enable a contact via a
> satellite below the horizon?
>
> It has never happened to me. Has it ever happened?
>
>
My memory might be a little fuzzy here. There was an article in the AMSAT
Journal back in the early 90's where G3IOR described his contact from the UK
into VK/ZL using RS-12. As others have mentioned in this thread, RS-12 using
15 and 10 meters for uplink and downlink, below the horizon contacts were
possible. I was able to work KH6 that way from New York. I also worked many
European countries out of normal expected range.
I seriously doubt that satellites using 2 meters and higher frequencies for
uplink/downlink would show much (if any) below the horizon capability.
Bob NA2X
AMSAT LM #51 since 1974
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