Larry, W2LJ wrote: One must also remember that propagation "conventions" are not always correct, either!
Take for instance the 80 Meter QRP-L Foxhunt a few weeks ago. The two foxes were in Virginia and Utah. I am located in New Jersey. Before the hunt began, conventional wisdom and experience told me that I would probably work the Virginia fox and probably wouldn't even hear the Utah fox. In reality, the exact opposite came to be! I guess when it comes to propagation you should "expect the unexpected". -------------------------------------------------------------------- Good point Larry! After all, we Hams were given the "shortwaves" to play in because all the experts with decades of on-air experience knew what we "couldn't get out of our own backyards" on those frequencies. It's significant to me that it was only a few of the Hams who did the work to open the shortwaves, and then to prove that even "daylight DX" was possible on the right frequencies. The majority of the Hams stubbornly hung around the longest wavelengths they could because they knew what the experts told them. The moral of the story is that if you want to experience something exciting and new, don't travel with the crowd. 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
