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Subject: TopBand: Re: [DX] Heard/USA QSO Statistics - Question
From: sears@rell.com (sears@rell.com)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:53:23 -0600
     I look at these statistics and for the firt time I wish I was back on 
     the East Coast. Texas is good to almost everywhere on 160m, not to 
     Heard Is.
     
     Peter
     W5PS


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Subject: TopBand: Re: [DX] Heard/USA QSO Statistics - Question
Author:  E F Benson <castco@roadrace.com> at internet
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Date:    1/30/97 5:35 PM


Robert Brown wrote:
> 
> Friends in Radio Land-
> 
> Jim Reisert, AD1C, gave some interesting results in his posting on
> HEARD/USA QSO Statistics.  From the propagation standpoint, there are 
> some items of interest:
> 
>                 1) the lack of contacts on 10 meters
>                 2) the lack of contacts with W5s on 160 CW 
>                 3) the few contacts with W0s on 160 CW
> 
> as shown in his statistics, given below: 
> 
>              W1    W2    W3    W4    W5    W6    W7    W8    W9    W0 
>              --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    -- 
>  15 CW:      59    89    67   187    88     4     5    84   123   103 
>  15 SSB:     39    60    54   118    32     8    16    83    81    58 
>  17 CW:      73    85    59    92    15    12    18    56    52    33 
>  17 SSB:    146   181   110   268   103    15    23   148   155   104 
>  20 CW:     246   353   224   615   354   443   246   308   320   273 
>  20 RTTY:    49    80    40   124    80    65    51    60    75    88 
>  20 SSB:    498   676   414   954   566   506   384   528   476   420 
>  30 CW:     274   339   213   482    98    96   100   255   230   204 
>  40 CW:     345   427   285   472   205   473   369   321   325   298 
>  40 SSB:    169   162   124   164    21    84   108   118   107    89 
>  40 SSB:    169   162   124   164    21    84   108   118   107    89 
>  80 CW:      99    95    65    64     6    50    52    47    50    33 
>  80 SSB:    134   113    56    55     8    42    99    51    43    45 
> 160 CW:      54    40    27    15     0     6     8    20    10     4 
> SAT CW:       0     0     0     2     0     1     0     0     0     0 
> SAT SSB:      1     1     2     9     0     0     0     0     0     0 
> TOTAL:     2186  2701  1740  3621  1576  1805  1479  2079  2047  1752 
> 
> The lack of contacts on 10 meters is just the fact that we're at Solar
> Minimum and don't have the F-region ionization to support 10 m propagation. 
> 
> The problems on 160 CW are not related to the level of ionization 
> up there; there's plenty to keep 160 m signals moving.  Instead, 
> the problems really have to do with all the great-circle paths
> from Heard which arrive in the USA close to the 106 W meridian of
> longitude.  During the DXpedition, those paths were fully illuminated 
> in the southern polar cap and D-region absorption took a heavy tool. 
> Check your mapping program to see where your path went; to have much
> of a chance, it would need to have its southern-most excursion in some 
> darkness.
> 
> For those Low Banders who still need Heard Island, you'll have to wait 
> til there's a DXpedition in a different season.  That might be a long 
> wait but there's no way to get around the power of sunlit electrons 
Interesting commentary on the Heard Island QSO break-out.  I have
one question; Did these numbers get broken out by call sign or from 
where the station actually operated.  In other words, if a N2CKZ worked 
Heard from Illinois, was that listed in the W9 or Central US
category or simply credited as a W2?  Inquiring minds need to know.
     
73, and good hunting,
     
E F Todd Benson, N2CKZ  Elmhurst, IL
     
     
     
     
     
     
> 73,
> 
> Bob, NM7M
> 
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