Thanks John. Well, there's the answer. I've never seen VK/ZL longpath
at that time of day. It was prime time for short path. Wow!
Guess that's what makes this hobby so interesting!
73, Don AA5AU
----- Original Message -----
From: "John - vk4cej" <vk4cej@hamsnet.net>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] VK/ZL Backscatter on 15M
> Hello Don.. I was beaming long path.. I aimed the beam short path at
> you and you were S3.. when I turned it long path, you were S7 and thats
> when I called you... Unfortunately even at S7 copy was not 100 percent as
> I was receiving multipath and that really mucked up the accuracy.
>
> John - vk4cej / vk4wpx
>
>
>
> > I hardly believed it when I couldn't copy VK4WPX with the
> > beam to the west. I could only copy him with the beam to the
> > Northeast on 15M. I thought it was a bit strange. So I put the
> > beam back to Northeast and copied his ten QTC's!
> >
> > Then ZL2BMH calls me. I hear him, my beam is Northeast so
> > I swing it Southwest and he disappears!
> >
> > It's got to be some sort of backscatter. But I've never seen it
> > like this to VK/ZL on 15M before. Guess 30 years of hamming,
> > having seen everything!
> >
> > 73, Don AA5AU
> > http://www.aa5au.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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