Jim,
I don't know if you've ever lived on the east coast, but I have, for
most of my hamming career. Now I reside in Colorado on about the same
longitude as N2IC in NM.
Even if you're louder being on a ridge, there's nothing you can do about:
1. the opening to EU being 2+ hours shorter
2. working Russia on 10m (and 15m as the sunspots decline) is very
difficult because UA sunset is about 30 minutes before CO/NM sunrise
3. and so on
Barry W2UP
On 5/29/2015 10:42, Jim Brown wrote:
On Thu,5/28/2015 7:21 PM, Steve London wrote:
1500 miles. That's really funny, Jim. And has no factual basis, of
course.
Have you run HFTA for your QTH? I've run it extensively, and it
clearly shows 6-10 dB advantages to certain terrain. 6 dB is 4X the
power; 10 dB is 10x the power. Apply inverse square law, and it can
have the effect of moving you that much closer.
Every contest, my good contesting friends in central Texas, a mere
600 miles east of me, trounce me to Europe on every band.
And from what I've seen, some of them have stacks on the higher
bands. As does N6RO.
And no, the bands do not open any earlier to Europe for me. I have to
wait for the sun to rise or set, just like everyone else.
K6XX is three miles from me, but on the peak of a ridge I shoot over
to EU. The higher bands DO open an hour so early, and stay open an
hour or so later, to EU. And he works guys in JA that I don't hear.
I've run FD QRP twice from a 5,000 ft peak east of Monterey, CA. It is
VERY diffferent from operating at home, which I have also done FD QRP
twice. On that peak, I could run for at least half of the time, and
had a 70 hour at the end, and I made almost twice the number of Qs.
73, Jim K9YC
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