Yuri Blanarovich wrote:

[snip]

I am just trying to bring attention to possible discrepancy that perhaps is
worth exploring. If some believe in gospel of modeling and paper antennas,
than enjoy it. I prefer reality. When I wrote my observations about
propagation happening by ducting and refraction some 25 years ago, I was
ridiculed. Now the propagation experts are accepting it and playing
discoverers (only ON4UN gives me some credit :-).

Yuri, K3BU

Yuri,

I am a bit puzzled by your comment. Ducting and refraction received a
lot of technical and mathematical study back at least to the mid-1930's.
Terman's books show similar figures to those in your CQ article, and
they give numerous technical references from the 1940's.

You may have been ridiculed by the amateur radio community, but the pros
accepted that sort of propagation explanation many decades earlier.

73,
Gene
W4SZ