[BC] WFIF Heard In Europe

[Chuck Lakaytis]

In the early sixties I was a MARS operator in Europe.  During a nice peak in
the sunspot activity I was talking on 10 meters with someone in Australia.
I turned the power output down on the Collins until the wattmeter showed 15
watts output.  The guy at the other end still got me at S9.  This lasted for
about an hour.

When I was the CE at KBRW in Barrow, Alaska I got about 10-20 QSL cards
during the winter.  Northwest Scotland was evidently a destination for DX's
listening on the MW band.  And we had regular listeners in the Winter from
Sweden.  

One of the previous engineers would go out to the transmitter site after
sign off and load up the stick on 80 meters.  He had a nice time doing 80
meter work.

Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
907 277 6300
907 310 4339 (cell)


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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Gary Peterson
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:31 AM
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Subject: [BC] WFIF Heard In Europe

" Propagation is such an odd thing.  I've heard of hams who have scanned a
seemingly dead band, got one signal that sounded
like it was next door but was clear around the world.
Scott Todd "

As a died-in-the-wool DXer (every DXCC country in the world confirmed) for
the past twenty years, I have found that it isn't difficult at all to work
the opposite side of the world (antipode).  If you think about it, every
direction from your location is a great circle path to the antipode.  Hence,
if any path is open, you can hear each other.

Gary, K?CX
CE KFXS - KOUT - KKMK - KRCS - KKLS - KBHB - KIMM



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