[WARC] NVIS Progress

[Leslie Hittner]

A good test would be to orient an NVIS antenna in a similar
manner to a high dipole and then switch between the two -
comparing both received signals and transmitted signals at
different distances (and somehow magically preventing
interaction between them).

-Les



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Litvan" <Litvan at acegroup.cc>
To: "W0NE Listserv" <warc at lists.w0ne.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 20:07
Subject: [WARC] NVIS Progress


> Well....  I ran the 50' random wire dipole horizontally from
the deck
> railing (up 13-14') this evening.  Got into the MN Section net
on
> 3.860--but the station able to read me was "north of
Brainard".  Net
> control, K0BLR in St. Cloud, knew I was there but couldn't
read me.  So
> my check-in was relayed by the Brainard station.
>
> Close, but no cigar.....   However--this was my 1st QSO on
75/80
> meters!!!!  So that's progress.
>
> Other than Red, WO0W, this is my first MN contact on HF I
think, so that
> was some progress.
>
> Later, I was on CW (SKCC monthly all-day event).  Heard lots
of activity
> on 80 M and other bands, but eventually the only contact made
was with a
> North Point, AL, station on 30 M--hardly NVIS local contact.
>
> Tomorrow night I hope to have time to move the antenna down to
6' and
> try again!  If I have to move it down to 6", I will get NVIS
to work!
>
> Ont thing concluded today with the help of a source from Ed,
W5TWR, and
> other sources is that a flat top or slightly sagging dipole
seems to
> work best.  Think about it--an inverted V will give some
outward
> directions to the major lobes.  We want straight up.
>
> See you on HF tomorrow night!!!!
>
> This stuff is FUN!
>
> 73,
> Len
>
>
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