[50mhz] dead band

[Gordon Couger]

What you describe sound like what I have herd on ten meters when
working islands and here a station too close to me to be accounted
for by any known propagation but reflection back along the same path
as the island. They are Q5 copy but no signal strength at all.

Guys in north Texas I have worked that way account the watery sound
to phase shift from bouncing off the ocean and say with enough power
they point thier beams south and work each other off the enhanced
propagation off the equator most days.

If you are listing to a QSO from the right place you can hear the
station and the reflection with a slight time delay.

Gordon W5RED
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill VanAlstyne" <w5wvo at cybermesa.net>
To: <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [50mhz] dead band


: Also heard W5OZI here in NM -- very weak and watery, popping out
of the noise
: floor occasionally. Almost sounded like a combination of tropo and
meteor
: bursts.
: