---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Ireland <[email protected]> Date: Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:50 PM Subject: HK heard in VK6 on 160m over weekend - very difficult path! To: Tree <[email protected]>
Hi Tree Hope all is well with you. Please would you post the following to the topband reflector – some very unusual propagation from continental South America into VK6. ----------------- G’day The hardest part of the world to work by far from Western Australia is continental South America, which is directly on the far side of Antarctica (the south pole) from here. PY, YV, HK , CE, OA etc are genuinely as rare as hen’s teeth and I have only ever heard two PY and one YV in 17 years of operation on the topband from here. South American stations can be readily worked from the eastern side of Australia, but from VK6 they are the ‘holy grail’. ;-) However, on Friday night (27 May) HK3O was heard for several minutes from 1020Z on 1824kHz by Phil VK6GX and then HK3MW was heard on the following night from 1012Z until 1027Z on 1823kHz also by Phil. Both times signals were about the same strength – S2 to S3 – but readability was good – R4. As many operators seem to have directional receive antennas these days and South Americans are not necessarily expecting to hear anything from the direction of Antarctica, if anyone hears a VK6 calling a South American station without success, please could they alert the South American station that they have a ‘VK6’ station calling. Please don’t give the full VK6 callsign of the station calling – just the prefix – so at least the South American station can ‘switch’ any receiving antenna they have in this direction. Interesting times on the topband – which, from this part of the world, tends to be better at the top of the solar cycle, rather than at the bottom. Vy 73 Steve, VK6VZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
