Good Morning All,
I wonder if those of you blessed with superior receiving antennas to mine here
may have noticed any skewness of the Australian path on the band this
morning...?
To-day was one of those rare days wherein the S/N ratio on received signals was
superior using my transmitting antenna (as opposed to my K9AY loops / N/S
Beverage). I struggled to copy VK3IO (469), as well as VK2AWD (339) with my
tri-angular phased array beaming N/W --- however, when I re-directed the
antenna to due north, Ron (IO) was a good 579 - 589, and AWD became a decent
569...
My array can only be re-directed in relatively coarse 45-degree steps, so there
was doubtlessly something lost in the way of "...fine tuning" here. Still, the
effect was VERY pronounced, and only served to make me pine for a
multi-Beverage array with 10-degree spacing! Hi Hi.
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
PS: Nothing heard from TX5C here this morning...
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