Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-03-02 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Some time in the last decade, out at NY4A in the CQ WW DX CW, on 40 meters, I started hearing CW that I initially thought someone was sending over the top of me, mocking me. I sent an FU. and got an FU back. Then the lights went on in my fatigue-soddened brain. I sent a spastic random twiddle-diddl

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-03-02 Thread Gary Smith
It has not been recently but in the past I have heard my signals, it was around the year 1990, I was on CW and I had been a ham about 10 years at the time. I remember hearing a faint mirror of everything I sent and very disconcerting to focusing on sending properly. I do not recall the band

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Walter Miller, AJ6T
bject: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians hello reflectees, i never ever experienced echoes on 160. And i do a lot of transmitting and have relatively sensitive rx systems. Given the laws of field expansion and attenuation i consider it a hoax. I have had round the globe echoes on 20m. But was using

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Lee STRAHAN
. Lee K7TJR OR -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Wolf Ostwald Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 10:15 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians hello reflectees, i never ever experienced echoes on

Re: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-08 Thread Raoul Coetzee via Topband
the big bang in the microwave background, so what is a few hours between friends on 160m ? :-) Regards,Raoul ZS1C From: Dr. Wolf Ostwald To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 8:15 AM Subject: Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians hello reflectees, i never

Topband: LDEs, witches and magicians

2017-02-07 Thread Dr. Wolf Ostwald
hello reflectees, i never ever experienced echoes on 160. And i do a lot of transmitting and have relatively sensitive rx systems. Given the laws of field expansion and attenuation i consider it a hoax. I have had round the globe echoes on 20m. But was using 6 el monobander with power and at th