[Elecraft] Re: ECN Eurasia from the west end

[Vic Rosenthal]

wayne burdick wrote:
> 
> I'll have to get to work improving my antenna. Now let's see.....if I'm 
> going to put up a fixed-aimed wire beam that would optimize for ECN 
> Eurasia from San Francisco, where should it point?  :)

About 14 degrees is right for Fresno to Iraq, and given the beamwidth of 
practical antennas, should be fine for SF.  The best propagation today 
(assuming a flux of 100 and K of 2) appears to be on 14 MHz from about 
0100Z to 0400Z.  18 MHz would be slightly better, but is less reliable. 
My propagation program shows zilch at the 1900Z ECN time!  The current 
time zone offset to Iraq is +4, so that means from 0400-0800 Iraq time 
would be best.

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco