[OKDXA] Heard Island Propagation

[Robert Redmon]

John,

Worked Heard on 20 and 15 in 1983 running a 4 el tribander at 40' if my 
memory serves....probably KW. I remember it was HARD from NE Oklahoma. 
Hours and hours at the rig straining to hear them.

My buddy W7FG worked them on 20, 15, and 10. He was running a KW(+) to 
4-5 el monobanders at 70-90.' It wasn't easy for him, either. Very weak 
signals. I remember almost giving up and then working them a day or two 
before they left.

I think I remember they were running monobanders on 10' masts. I will 
try to remember to dig out the card to confirm their setup and compare 
my qso times to our propagation this time. I would sure like to work 
them on the lower bands, but missed Sandwich on 160 and 80 and have had 
no luck so far with S. Georgia on those bands. Sigs have been very weak 
here and I have no beverage aimed that way. I may see if I can lay out a 
BOG in that direction before Heard.

Bob

On 2/4/2016 1:13 PM, John Geiger wrote:
> Starting to think of antenna things for Spring and the Heard Island
> DXpedition, as that will be a new one for me should I work it.  What is the
> propagation likely to be like from Oklahoma to Heard on the higher bands?
> Will there be much of a chance to work them on 15 or 10m?  Will a fairly
> low dipole on 20 and 30 even have a chance of working them with 100 watts?
>
> The beam heading from my QTH is 165 degrees so I take it this is a rather
> difficult path since it crosses the polar regions.  For those of you who
> have worked Heard before, which bands was it on?
>
> 73 John AF5CC
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