Bill, And I hope you realize that comparing 6m propagation to 80m propagation is not fair! Most likely the XG3 beacon on 50-MHz will only utilize ground-wave prop. There may be some tropo-scatter effect but that is usually more enhanced higher into VHF/UHF.
Of course if Es or MUF> 50-MHz are in existence, you can achieve unbelievable 6m DX with low power. Your proposal for 10m is more on an equal plain if there are no enhanced propagation effects. On an average day up here under the Auroral Belt there is no 6m enhancement and making contacts over 100-miles with ground-wave can be a challenge even with 100w! Almost always I find 2m is superior to 6m ground-wave. That may change now that I am getting a 6-element (13-dBi) 6m yagi set up. But then antenna gain nearly always helps (point-to-point). The nice part of antenna gain is it works in receive, also! ------------------------------ Message: 45 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:44:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill W4ZV <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] XG3 6M beacon W7RDP/B on the air To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I hope you realize that 1000 microwatts (1 mW or 0 dBm) is very QRO in the world of weak signal beacons. Try 27 microwatts at a distance of 546.8 miles on 80 meters. ;-) http://www.eham.net/articles/10078 When lightning season is over (next fall), I'll hook up my XG3 to my 3-stack on 10 meters (22 dBi gain) and see if you can hear me in W6 land. 73, Bill W4ZV 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
