Please see the articles on sea gain (from technical reports of the
BBC Engineering Department), referenced by Chuck Hutton, which I
believe addresses this very phenomenon.
73,
Nick
At 17:13 01-04-15, you wrote:
As I recall, the vertical signal strength to low angle DX went up
"dramatically" within 2 or less wavelengths of the edge of the high water
mark and maybe leveled off as "fantastic" from within 0.5 wavelength. But
further and further away past 2 wavelengths, the signal strengths dropped
away and had very diminishing effects. I don't recall how far back before
the benefits were disappointing but that article has the answers you need.
Just scale it for 160 or 80M vs their 40 - 10M data.
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