Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles

[Merv Schweigert via Topband <topband@contesting.com>]

Not sure how long they were on,  but I remember it was the years of 
decent propagation
My experience hearing them was at the sunrise and sunset time to KH6.   
I could hear many OH
stations and at no time was OH8X signal  better than the other OH stations,
many OH were stronger.  If I remember by the next season the antenna was 
destroyed
by the weather.  So it seemed to be short lived.
That was in 2008 and I worked them both sunrise and  sunset times.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6


> Does anyone know when OH8X was active on 160? The RBN archive goes back to 
> 2009, snd it would be fairly easy to mine the archive.
> 73 Pete N4ZR
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 30, 2018, at 3:50 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband <topband@contesting.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Another thought on this.
> >
> >
> > I visited W8JI's station some years ago where had the usual 4 square for 160 
> > and also an inverted Vee at around 300 feet.  He told me that the inverted Vee 
> > seldom played as good as or better than the 4 square  The 4 square was usually 
> > much better.
> >
> >
> > Bill K4XS/KH7XS
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
> > To: topband <topband@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Fri, Mar 30, 2018 7:34 pm
> > Subject: Re: Topband: 160m polarization and elevation angles
> >
> > Hi Carl,
> >
> > OH8X was active for some months when I was making Qs with Eu, in
> > particular OH. I never heard them at all, although I have no idea of
> > exactly when they were QRV. My guess is that if their monster antenna
> > had produced results, they would have been a lot more active. We can
> > certainly draw inferences from that!
> >
> > In contrast, I have made many Qs with other guys running good stations
> > with vertical Tx, such as OH2MA and OH3XR. In fact if there is any
> > propagation at all between ZL and Eu, OH is often one of the first areas
> > to benefit.
> >
> > Conclusion - OH-ZL is not a particularly difficult path, and if the OH8X
> > antenna had been effective, I would have easily heard them.
> >
> > 73, Greg, ZL3IX
> > > It would have been great to have had the OH8X 160m Yagi up for a long time
> > > so RBN could have been used to compare it to nearby vertical antennas. It
> > > would have shown how much of this theory is applicable in the real world.
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