The conditions on 17 and 20 are not good, but stations can be worked with patience, the bands are extremely unstable and the QSB is ferocious.
Being able to hear a DX station on a dipole lying on the ground proves one thing, you don't need a high antenna to work DX. My wire antenna 90 feet long, is 12 feet above the ground, and is fed under a tree. Using PSK I have made contacts on 40 and 80 metres to Gibralter about 1,500 miles distant, as well as contacts deep into Russia. A wire dipole antenna three feet above the ground will get you contacts 500-750 miles away, but many find this hard to believe. Kind regards, Mel G0GQK Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
