[GCARC] Fwd: [FCG] VK0EK/FT4JA

[Merrill Brown]

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Merrill
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> From: "Luis V. Romero" <lromero56 at tampabay.rr.com>
> Date: April 6, 2016 at 9:03:50 AM EDT
> To: <fcg at kkn.net>
> Subject: Re: [FCG] VK0EK/FT4JA
> Reply-To: lromero56 at tampabay.rr.com
> 
> Yep!  And therein lies the problem for lower antennas with steeper takeoff
> angles (Like mine).
> 
> The steeper the angle, the more power at higher elevations and less power at
> lower elevations.  The "beam" that makes it to the oval (and some of it
> does) experiences scattering  through the auroral oval, and of course, more
> flutter and diffuse the reception of signals from VK0 viz FT4, whose signal
> does not have to traverse through the oval.
> 
> So the more diffusion, the more "selective fading" and phase rotation at the
> receiving and transmitting end of the path, and so we low antenna folk have
> lesser quality signals or no signal at all if the wave angle is such that
> the "beam" gets absorbed and completely diffused in the oval.  
> 
> It would be easy to work them if not for Physics and their location relative
> to us :)
> 
> Lu - W4LT
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fcg-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:fcg-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of
>> Steve Sacco NN4X
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 8:31 AM
>> To: fcg at kkn.net
>> Subject: Re: [FCG] VK0EK/FT4JA
>> 
>> VK0EK has a polar path to us; check out their webpage:
> http://dxa.vk0ek.org/
>> 
>> They've got to go ACROSS a lot of auroral zone when on a North America /
>> East beam heading.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/6/2016 8:17 AM, KE1F Lou wrote:
>>> FT4JA started late but passed VK0EK in QSOs made.
>>> 
>>> Distributions of contacts are very similar.
>>> 
>>>             FT4JA        VK0EK
>>> AS    16.4%            23%
>>> EU    59.5%            51.5%
>>> NA    21.4%            19.9%
>>> 
>>> A few thousand miles makes a big difference in propagation.
>>> I can hear FT4JA real good but not the VK0EK.
>>> 
>>> Is my observation limited to my station or is it similar to other low
>>> antenna height stations in Florida?
>>> 
>>> I am not _whining_, I have contact with both expedition stations, I am
>>> just observing.
>>> 
>>> 73  Lou  KE1F
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>> --
>> Steve Sacco
>> NN4X
>> Narcoossee, FL
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