Well, one major tool in such research could be the RBN. Currently, it
is an overwhelmingly northern hemisphere resource. We have Skimmers in
VU, 9V, and southwestern China, but nothing to speak of in equatorial
Africa and South America. Our efforts to fill the gap in Africa were
focused, unfortunately, in an area that has other things on its mind,
and we have not found much interest in Latin America. If anyone out
there would be interested in establishing RBN nodes in East Africa or
South America, we'd love to hear from them. It doesn't have to be an
expensive undertaking - we can show you how.
73, Pete N4ZR
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http://reversebeacon.net,
blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
For spots, please go to your favorite
ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
On 8/28/2014 10:38 PM, Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest wrote:
Hi Charly I would be very interested in how these observations were made. I am
not a smart doctoral candidate but as 'other people' my theory for this
observation is the large increase in propagated noise floor we experience due
to our proximity to the ITCZ.
73 Bob HS0ZIA
On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:07 AM, Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com> wrote:
There is over twenty years of observation of the absorption (?) of
incoming HF signals in a latitude band of about 25 degrees width
and seemingly along the MAGNETIC equator.
Consistently, signals coming in to this area are attenuated or lower than
reported outgoing far-field (2 to 4+ hops) signals. IN the geographical
area, stations hear worse than they are heard.
Could some smart doctoral candidate or other people get on this phenomena
with measured research and scientific explanation.
The area I know about stretches from VU4, over HS/XU/3W, and includes
Manila. Help? 73,
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