Hi...
Good news.. I managed to get thru and work BQ9P on 30 meters this morning !!
Thanks to everyone for their ideas. I ended up putting up a Half Square.
The interesting thing is I ended up working him on the zepp !! I guess he
is coming in on some type of skew path over Europe ?? I have the Half Square
pointed right towards him but he was much weaker on it. I know it's working and
is directional because I worked some UA9/UA0 stations on it that I couldn't
even hear on the zepp. Plus EU is down on it compared to my zepp, which is
what should be expected. The zepp is somewhat directional toward EU - 88 feet
total - 44 feet each side - which is pretty close to being two half waves in
phase.
I would be interested in hearing reports from others that have worked him on
30 meters and what direction he was peaking from ??? For a skew path signal he
was pretty loud but seemed to have lots of trouble hearing people. Maybe
becuase the pileup was just big...
73, Jeff
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