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----- Original Message ----- From: "Merv Schweigert via Topband" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 9:33:19 PM Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles Not sure how long they were on, but I remember it was the years of decent propagation My experience hearing them was at the sunrise and sunset time to KH6. I could hear many OH stations and at no time was OH8X signal better than the other OH stations, many OH were stronger. If I remember by the next season the antenna was destroyed by the weather. So it seemed to be short lived. That was in 2008 and I worked them both sunrise and sunset times. 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 > Does anyone know when OH8X was active on 160? The RBN archive goes back to > 2009, snd it would be fairly easy to mine the archive. > 73 Pete N4ZR > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:50 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Another thought on this. >> >> >> I visited W8JI's station some years ago where had the usual 4 square for 160 >> and also an inverted Vee at around 300 feet. He told me that the inverted >> Vee seldom played as good as or better than the 4 square The 4 square was >> usually much better. >> >> >> Bill K4XS/KH7XS >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Greg - ZL3IX <[email protected]> >> To: topband <[email protected]> >> Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 7:34 pm >> Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles >> >> Hi Carl, >> >> OH8X was active for some months when I was making Qs with Eu, in >> particular OH. I never heard them at all, although I have no idea of >> exactly when they were QRV. My guess is that if their monster antenna >> had produced results, they would have been a lot more active. We can >> certainly draw inferences from that! >> >> In contrast, I have made many Qs with other guys running good stations >> with vertical Tx, such as OH2MA and OH3XR. In fact if there is any >> propagation at all between ZL and Eu, OH is often one of the first areas >> to benefit. >> >> Conclusion - OH-ZL is not a particularly difficult path, and if the OH8X >> antenna had been effective, I would have easily heard them. >> >> 73, Greg, ZL3IX >>> It would have been great to have had the OH8X 160m Yagi up for a long time >>> so RBN could have been used to compare it to nearby vertical antennas. It >>> would have shown how much of this theory is applicable in the real world. >>> >>> >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
