[50mhz] Where's the Es?

[Bill W5WVO]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Bingham" <howardb at hal-pc.org>
To: "John Geiger" <aa5jg at yahoo.com>; <50mhz at mailman.qth.net>;
<6meter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [50mhz] Where's the Es?


> ... Yet someone from Colorado was
> being heard locally, but never responded to
> repeated attempts to complete a contact..

Most likely he was running high power with his beam turned away from you.
There is one guy I know in CO who runs QRO into stacked 11-element yagis on
6m. If he's not exactly pointed at you, he'll never hear you. :-)  There are
other big guns in CO with similar high-end setups.

Bill W5WVO