Not sure how long they were on, but I remember it was the years of
decent propagation
My experience hearing them was at the sunrise and sunset time to KH6.
I could hear many OH
stations and at no time was OH8X signal better than the other OH stations,
many OH were stronger. If I remember by the next season the antenna was
destroyed
by the weather. So it seemed to be short lived.
That was in 2008 and I worked them both sunrise and sunset times.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
Does anyone know when OH8X was active on 160? The RBN archive goes back to
2009, snd it would be fairly easy to mine the archive.
73 Pete N4ZR
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On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:50 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband <[email protected]>
wrote:
Another thought on this.
I visited W8JI's station some years ago where had the usual 4 square for 160
and also an inverted Vee at around 300 feet. He told me that the inverted Vee
seldom played as good as or better than the 4 square The 4 square was usually
much better.
Bill K4XS/KH7XS
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg - ZL3IX <[email protected]>
To: topband <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles
Hi Carl,
OH8X was active for some months when I was making Qs with Eu, in
particular OH. I never heard them at all, although I have no idea of
exactly when they were QRV. My guess is that if their monster antenna
had produced results, they would have been a lot more active. We can
certainly draw inferences from that!
In contrast, I have made many Qs with other guys running good stations
with vertical Tx, such as OH2MA and OH3XR. In fact if there is any
propagation at all between ZL and Eu, OH is often one of the first areas
to benefit.
Conclusion - OH-ZL is not a particularly difficult path, and if the OH8X
antenna had been effective, I would have easily heard them.
73, Greg, ZL3IX
It would have been great to have had the OH8X 160m Yagi up for a long time
so RBN could have been used to compare it to nearby vertical antennas. It
would have shown how much of this theory is applicable in the real world.
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