[Elecraft] K3 and CQWW

[S Sacco]

I also noted on Sunday morning, 08:37 am local, while listening to LZ5K that
on the 4/4 (110' top) stack he sounded good, but on the dipole (@ 150') ,
there was quite an echo, making it difficult to copy him.   LZ5K wasn't the
only station I noted this on.

73,
Steve NN4X



On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Björn Mohr <bm at broadcast.se> wrote:

>
> On 1 dec 2008, at 19.12, Jim Brown wrote:
>
>  Interesting propagation from several locations on 20M caused very strong
>> echoes that ran characters together to the point that I couldn't copy them
>> at all. One example was about 1800Z Sunday for signals from anywhere NE
>> USA
>> and eastern Canada (that is, W1, W2, W3, VE1, VE2, VE3). Around 2200Z I
>> was
>> hearing it on a few JA stations. I'm about 70 miles S of San Francisco and
>> use wire dipoles, so I don't have directivity to protect me from secondary
>> arrivals.
>>
>
> I also had this happening to me, with EU stations coming back several
> paths. The was one PA (I believe) that I just gave up on, his code just
> melted together to one steady carrier.
>
> On 80 meter I had a nice run Sunday night squeezed between two stations
> where the variable filtering came in handy. First I was a little annoyed
> when a station sneaked up very close on me starting a run, but after some
> filter tweaking I felt pretty good with my tight spot on the band.
>
> Overall it was a fun weekend with the K3!
>
> My claimed score is here;
> http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2008-December/164538.html
>
> 73 de Björn,
> SM0MDG
> SE0X
>
>
>
>
>
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