[Elecraft] One-Way Propagation?

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Tom,

Have you noticed any change in the direction of path skew during the 45 
minutes around your sunset, or is it always a 'Great Circle path'?

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Althoff" <althoff at verizon.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] One-Way Propagation?


> Consistantly over the past 40 years I reaffirm on a daily basis that, at 
> least on 40M,  as the sun lowers in the west I can hear European stations 
> about 45 minutes to an hour before they can hear me.
>
> I have no explanation for it but suspect that the signal level is the same 
> on both ends but the background noise from the daylight side masks the 
> signal as it appears in Europe.
>
> Tom K2TA