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Re: [TenTec] OT: Openwire/Window Line and Bad Wx

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Openwire/Window Line and Bad Wx
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:11:06 -0700
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On 7/29/2013 5:48 PM, Steve Berg wrote:
I managed to work all continents with an Argonaut II, and a 1208 transverter barefoot into a 4 element Hy-Gain beam at 50 feet.

That is VERY dependent on your QTH. From near San Francisco, with 4 elements at 120 ft, in six years I've never even HEARD EU, AN, SA, or AF on 6M, let alone work them. I do have 6M QSLs from VK, ZL, JA, and FK, all of which are longer paths than from W4 to EU, SA, or AF.

Back in the late 50s with an historic solar cycle, from WV with 25 watts we worked ZS in the morning, K6 in the afternoon, followed by KH6 and JA. It's STRONGLY dependent on where you are and what the propagation gods are doing. :)

73, Jim K9YC
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