[PaQSO] long 40m, try 80m more?

[John Myers]

Hi Pete,

That's exactly the conditions we had a few weeks ago in the Ohio State Parks contest.

My plan is to be chasing multipliers on 20 and 40 and working the bulk of the reinstate stuff on 80.

However, one thing I always have loved about the PA party is that on Sunday morning, 40 seems to behave somewhat like 80 and it's still kind of short. 

John Myers 
kd8mq.net/pqp

> On Oct 1, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Pete K0BAK via PaQSO <paqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm really into NPOTA, and I've noticed that since around April,
> 
> 40m is been "long". From here in the Philly burbs,
> I now almost never hear parks on 40m in EPA, metro NYC,NJ, WDC, or northern MD and VA. So, I wonder if 40m daytime will be as 
> 
> effective for in-state county contacts and neighboring states
> as it was for the previous two years.
> 
> I've only been active two years, so I don't know the seasonal band patterns.
> In those two years, 40m daylight seemed to be the bread-and-butter
> band for QSO parties, but I wonder if it will work as well now.
> Should we consider spending a bit more time
> on 80m daylight for longer groundwave if 40m isn't as productive
> as expected?
> 
> Would be interested in hearing from the experienced operators who've
> been through a few propagation cycles.
> 
> -- Pete K0BAK
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