Hi Roger,
My experience is consistent with almost all topband operators: "160 needs vertical polarization for consistent long DX." I've had 160 horizontal dipoles at 100 feet and 200 feet high and I've never experienced a situation where their performance approached the consistent excellent performance of my verticals. As they say YMMV. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Kennedy" <ro...@wessexproductions.co.uk> To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:48:51 PM Subject: Topband: Topband resource "However, 160 needs vertical polarization for consistent long DX." So how is it that I consistently work all over the world on 160m with my horizontal dipole at 50ft?! (and my signals seem to often be pretty comparable with other Brits using verticals} You certainly need a Vertical to work DX on 80m . . . but in my experience 160m propagation is very different . . . I'm guessing it's often quite high angle due to multi-hop or ducting. Also, I don't understand why on the Web page they are talking about NA stations coming on Top Band at 1730 UTC to work Europe . . . I don't find the band opens to NA until at least 2200 . . . and for me signals are always much better after midnight. Roger G3YRO _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector