Kevin wrote: I am not sure about Ron though. He is normally much stronger here. A note to you folks who don't know our local geography. Ron lives in Forest Grove. I live north of him about fifteen miles but about 1600 feet higher in elevation. There are no intervening mountains like there are for the folks in Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland, or Gresham. He should be strong to me via ground wave. I assume he was using his KX1 but may be fiddling with antennas. Pete relayed him into me from Southern California!! Ron may have been skipping right over my home above Buxton. I'll await the rest of the story ;)
------------------------------------------ Nope! I was running the K2 at 100 watts and had just worked a station in the midwest with strong sigs both ways. I think we're too far apart for ground wave and short skip "NVIS" propagation wasn't working well. You were solid copy but definitely very, very weak: almost the weakest signal I heard check in. I'm blessed with a very low noise level. The background on 40 is usually a quiet sizzle that doesn't even light up the first bar on the "S" meter. Your signal occasionally made the first bar flicker, where others were lighting up the bargraph to S9 or so. Propagation is very interesting at this point in the Sunspot cycle, despite what those who grumble about preparing for the next sunspot cycle say. I'd like to check in more often to see how this works over time, but my schedule usually doesn't permit it. But when I can I'll be there. 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
