Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-06 Thread Mike Waters
This is interesting. I recall a discussion here about very long LDEs awhile back. IIRC, it was suggested that perhaps the magnetosphere and the Van Allen belts might be involved, rather than the much closer ionosphere. I heard a double echo on 75m last year. I heard his direct signal which was

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-06 Thread Brian Pease
, Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 4:44 PM To: on7eh <on...@skynet.be> Cc: topBand List <topband@contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning I have heard echoes of m

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-06 Thread JC
<on...@skynet.be> Cc: topBand List <topband@contesting.com> Subject: Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning I have heard echoes of my own signal under some circumstances too. More often on 80M but a couple times on 160M. Often in the hour before dawn. These echoes were also heard on ot

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-06 Thread K1FZ-Bruce
Andy, There was a passenger on an airliner that took photographs of a very large Aurora at that time. . One of the photographs was shown on TV -ABC World News. It is likely that the Aurora sparked all these events. I have noticed that there appears to be a link between the start of

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-06 Thread Andy Cook
I think this form of ducting takes place way above the layers of the atmosphere where weather happens. In my experience the magnetospheric ducting is normally localized in impact. If this was really happening in multiple places around the world at the same time on this occasion then I think

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Arthur Delibert
.com Subject: Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning Art and all, unfortunately, I do not have a PC in the shack outside contest days, otherwise an answer could easily be provided. For sure, its presence was annoying, not hearing the expected noise in between the dit and dah's at 20wpm... BTW: I r

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Shoppa
I have heard echoes of my own signal under some circumstances too. More often on 80M but a couple times on 160M. Often in the hour before dawn. These echoes were also heard on other stations within a few hundred miles, especially ones to my north. For the 160M echoes, some stations in W1 were

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread on7eh
and the noted difference in signal strength on the Beverages... Michel, ON7EH -Original Message- From: Arthur Delibert Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 3:45 PM To: on7eh ; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning Approximately how much delay

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Herbert Schoenbohm
February 5, 2017 4:32 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning For the first time, I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC. They lasted for at least 1 hour, with some OFF-periods in between. I had to quit at 06 UTC. (still 1 hour before

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread K1FZ-Bruce
Your transceiver switching may not have been fast enough to catch the echo the first time around. On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 11:21:51 -0800, Tree wrote: Yup - pretty crazy. Or space aliens were messing with me. On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:51 AM, k1fz

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Art Snapper
@contesting.com> on behalf of on7eh < > > on...@skynet.be> > > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:32 AM > > To: topband@contesting.com > > Subject: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning > > > > For the first time, > > I heard my echoe

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Tree
.@contesting.com> on behalf of on7eh < > on...@skynet.be> > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:32 AM > To: topband@contesting.com > Subject: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning > > For the first time, > I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC. &

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Arthur Delibert
.com Subject: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning For the first time, I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC. They lasted for at least 1 hour, with some OFF-periods in between. I had to quit at 06 UTC. (still 1 hour before surise) The echoes were loudest

Re: Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread Art Snapper
I noticed a few weak echoes this morning around 0400. I thought it was someone playing around. Art NK8X ᐧ On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:32 AM, on7eh wrote: > For the first time, > I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC. > They lasted for at least 1

Topband: Echo on 160m yesterday morning

2017-02-05 Thread on7eh
For the first time, I heard my echoes on topband, yesterday morning starting around 05 UTC. They lasted for at least 1 hour, with some OFF-periods in between. I had to quit at 06 UTC. (still 1 hour before surise) The echoes were loudest on the short Beverages (<60m long) heading N/S and NE/SW