[OKDXA] FT5ZM

Robert Redmon k5sm.bob at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 14:09:16 EST 2014


John, Here they are coming in best at 35-40 degrees east  of north, all 
bands. Used my European beverage last night on 80 and 40....big signal 
on both bands. Worked on 40....try again on 80 tonight.

Bob
On 1/28/2014 12:50 PM, John Geiger wrote:
> So what exact beam heading is that?  They were booming in here Sunday
> evening on their short path heading for me-126 degrees.
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>> I have found that the best heading is skewed almost 90 deg to the west
>> (CCW) from the shortest path heading ( about 29-30 deg). This has been
>> uniform for all bands. Since they are very near the antipode for us, SP and
>> LP start to lose meaning. Every beam heading essentially points to them and
>> vice versa. The skew has to be due to geomagnetic affects.
>>
>> Kim N5OP
>>
>> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as
>> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:20, John Geiger <af5cc at fidmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congrats! Need them still here.  What time did you work them, and was it
>>> short or long path.  Heard them fairly well on 20m this morning, assume
>> it
>>> was longpath.
>>>
>>> 73 John AF5CC
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Gary McCrorey <garylm at kiamichiwb.org
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>     HURRAY FINALLY WORKED THEM ON 20M CW.  GOOD LUCK ALL
>>>> GARY WQ5R
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