Doug
> Nope, Nope. I am a firm believer in one-way propagation on 160m, having witnessed it many times. > Can we agree, that we disagree.? When the signal is going up the polarization does not matter because after the first refraction the signal become elliptical, that's why the DX station independent of the polarization of the signal arriving here , always can copy me. I also witnessed many times the DX signal arriving only horizontal, including signals from. If the DX signal is arriving horizontal you won't be able to copy using your 4 SQ. even a high dipole does not do it because the dipole has no directivity, The RDF is very low, a dipole is not a receiver antenna. The fact you can't copy the signal does not mean that it is not there. It is special true for LP when I can copy signals very strong on the horizontal WV via SSW and not a single beep on the vertical HF, During the last 2 season I worked XU7ACY on 160m over 15 times (logging a QSO) ,and heard him way over 60 times, only with horizontal polarization. Same thing happened several times with Bobby VK3ZL, and it is not the local noise level. 73's JC N4IS _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - [email protected]
