[Lowfer] 1750 meter band skip zone

[Andy - KU4XR]

> From: Mike-WE0H 

> When I ran a CW beacon on 1750m, it could be heard at 162 miles 
> day or night.

Mike and all:

Man; I wish I could claim those kind of numbers. I have yet to
have anyone tell me that they " heard " my beacon signal by ear,
CW or the carrier on and off pattern. Mike were you operating
under your Part-5 when you got those distances ?? If you were
operating Part-15; you had one whale of a setup.


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 184.322 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr



> From: Mike-WE0H <we0h at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 1750 meter band skip zone
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:36 PM
> When I ran a CW beacon on 1750m, it
> could be heard at 162 miles day or 
> night. I wouldn't think there is much if any skip zone on
> 1750 or lower. 
> Even 600 meters has no apparent skip zone. I have reports
> day & night at 
> 254 miles with a CW signal. Further at night with no skip
> zone that I 
> have discovered yet. It seems like the AM BC band and lower
> freq's don't 
> have a skip zone because the groundwave goes so far.
> 
> Mike
> WE0H
> 
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