Re: [IRCA] Beverage versus DKAZ (was: TP for 20 October from Masset)

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Walt, 
 
The body of mark's message is pasted below. I used to have the same problem posting with AOL during DXpeditions, until Theo D. told me to try something else :-) 
 
73, Gary 
 
Pasted: 
 
Could the anomalous results be from the fact that sometimes at the sunrise or 
sunset transition you actually have higher angle pick-up for long haul because 
of a tilted ionospheric layer above the receiving site (enabling chordal / 
ducted mode propagation reducing the number of ground 
reflections)? 


http://www.radtelnetwork.com.au/propagation/HFpropagation_files/img013.gif 


An 
antenna that is efficient for high angles may briefly outperform otherwise 
superior long haul DX (i.e. low angle pick-up) antennas. 


There used to be a 
station near Madrid, Spain on 1359 kHz that ran big power into a Near Vertical 
Incidence Skywave antenna (horizontal dipole?) to push out high angle skip to 
penetrate isolated valley areas between mountains. Here in Massachusetts during 
mid-evening the station was no stronger than other high band Spain stations in 
the 5 to 10 kW class. But as dawn reached Madrid, the signal came up and got 
crazy-loud, often the strongest station from across the "pond" at the 
time. 


160-m hams have reported that they have brief periods when a low 
dipole or horizontal loop below quarter-wave height ("cloud burner") contacts DX 
that their big verticals or high-altitude beams or dipoles miss. 95% of the 
time it's the other way around of course. 


Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
South 
Yarmouth, MA 
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From: "Walter Salmaniw" <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Cc: "Mark Connelly" <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:23:16 AM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Beverage versus DKAZ (was: TP for 20 October from Masset) 

Mark, I'll have to wait a few days since the body of your email doesn't 
show on my iPhone. Walt 

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