Not quite true at all Fred, I copy east coast stations on a fairly
regular basis,
Eric is one that is a "regular", copy of various signals across the US is
daily operation. West coast and Canadian signals are copyable here
from before sunset until after sunset almost daily with audible
signals, they
are running a few watts ERP.
My receive antenna so far is a 80 meter dipole fed with open line,
shorted at
the shack end, 40 ft high.
So not a large antenna by ant means and not tuned to 600M.
The band is far better than what most people expect, of course the
better the
antenna the better the results, but there are many on being heard that are
running 160 meter antennas with large loading coils and its working quite
well.
By the way from here to the east coast is 5000 mi. 2500 to you guys in CA.
and you guys are like shooting fish in a barrel. 2500 miles is nothing.
Some hams in TX have made it to VK and ZL, east coast are crossing the
Atlantic on good nites.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6 WH2XCR
5. I'd say that, if you get several hundred miles on 495-510 KHz at
night limited to 20 watts ERP, you're doing very good.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org
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