[Milsurplus] ARC-1 to ARC-4 QSO

[J Forster]

It may well be a propagation issue, rather than an equipment issue. The
Armyradios Group on Yahoo is very interested in NVIS. As I understand it, at HF,
most of the transmitted power goes into space, not to the receiver. Sometimes it
bounces off the ionosphere and shows up  many hundreds or thousands of miles
away, leaving a local "donut' of silence.

Best,
-John

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Pete Williams wrote:

> G 'day  list...I sometimes wonder how, with all current technical knowhow,
> it seems so difficult to make WW2 radios establish 2 way comms even over
> moderate distances
> A couple of struggling  guys out our way had great trouble getting out on 80
> M over a few miles using ground support field radios and they were the full
> bottle on ability.
> If such reliability /performance existed in  a real sit.one can only hope
> the carrier pigeons  were well fed and on standby.
>
> Cheers
> Pete VK3IZ