I also noted on Sunday morning, 08:37 am local, while listening to LZ5K that on the 4/4 (110' top) stack he sounded good, but on the dipole (@ 150') , there was quite an echo, making it difficult to copy him. LZ5K wasn't the only station I noted this on.
73, Steve NN4X On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Björn Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1 dec 2008, at 19.12, Jim Brown wrote: > > Interesting propagation from several locations on 20M caused very strong >> echoes that ran characters together to the point that I couldn't copy them >> at all. One example was about 1800Z Sunday for signals from anywhere NE >> USA >> and eastern Canada (that is, W1, W2, W3, VE1, VE2, VE3). Around 2200Z I >> was >> hearing it on a few JA stations. I'm about 70 miles S of San Francisco and >> use wire dipoles, so I don't have directivity to protect me from secondary >> arrivals. >> > > I also had this happening to me, with EU stations coming back several > paths. The was one PA (I believe) that I just gave up on, his code just > melted together to one steady carrier. > > On 80 meter I had a nice run Sunday night squeezed between two stations > where the variable filtering came in handy. First I was a little annoyed > when a station sneaked up very close on me starting a run, but after some > filter tweaking I felt pretty good with my tight spot on the band. > > Overall it was a fun weekend with the K3! > > My claimed score is here; > http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2008-December/164538.html > > 73 de Björn, > SM0MDG > SE0X > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com >
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