on 10/9/02 3:15 PM, Robert Shohet at kq2m@earthlink.net wrote:
>> Those east coast guys don't know what it's like trying to work Europe
> while
>> passing your signals through the auroral belt!
>> 73,
>> Jon
>> NA9D
>
> In New England we are INTIMATELY familiar with
> what the Auroral Belt does to signals! So are most
> people on the East Coast.
Not anything like us here. That's one reason why you guys can start runs to
Europe a couple hours earlier and keep them going a couple hours longer than
us. And yes, it helps to be closer to them by 1000 miles as well.
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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
Life Member: ARRL, NRA
Member: AMSAT, DXCC
http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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