[OKDXA] Heard Island Propagation

[John Geiger]

That sounds promising, lets hope it turns out to be true!

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Jimmy Richardson <n5ohl at cox.net> wrote:

> John,
>
> I worked the VK0IR Heard Island Dxpedition on 25 Jan 1997 on 20 meters
> SSB  with a 100 watts and a 20 meter dipole at 35 feet. Solar Flux at the
> time was around 72-75. Clearly with today's declining HF conditions the
> upper bands (10/12) are unlikely to produce a contact. Your best bet is 20
> meters and below.
>
>
> Good Luck and 73,
>
> Jim N5OHL
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 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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