Sandy, W6TVW wrote: A lot of people nowadays don't understand HF propagation. One MUST remember that the propagation programs are not necessarily correct!
------------------------------ Absolutely!! The predictions are like weather forecasting. Today we have a 100% chance of rain in Northwest Oregon based on the most advanced data analysis in the world. We are told that we may be having the wettest January since Lewis and Clark trekked through here in 1805. Yet, outside my office window I see blue skies and the sun is shining! Keith's "mojo" is his interest and willingness to listen and call on a 'dead' band, aided of course by a good rig! I commend you for that Keith. I hope I can be on the other end of one of those QSO's one day. To me, your choices are at the heart of Ham Radio as I most enjoy it. Antenna modeling software, propagation analysis and all the rest are, at best, a sort of "virtual reality". As compelling as the graphics may be, they may not depict reality at all. At least back in the days when analysis was done crunching numbers with our only output huge arrays of digits on fan-fold paper we weren't seduced by fancy graphics into believing that the results were anything more real than a bunch of predictions based on a bunch of assumptions about what might be true. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
