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Dipoles, why height matters
On Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:01:08 PM UTC-6,
NVIS is generally defined as aiming the power straight up and the S in NVIS stands for "Skywave". So if you want to be pendatic, you are correct. However, if you look at the links above, the real world DOES make a distinction between NVIS and skywave. I'll have to read through them, but myself, I consider any signal which is reflected off the ionosphere back to the target receiver, as being skywave, no matter if the angle is 90 or 10 degrees. If it doesn't use the ionosphere, it's not skywave. Sometimes you can have a mix of path modes. IE: being able to receive both the skywave, but also the ground or space wave. In most cases like that, the NVIS path will overwhelm the ground or space wave unless the two stations are very close together. |
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Dipoles, why height matters
On 11/22/2014 5:33 PM, wrote:
On Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:01:08 PM UTC-6, NVIS is generally defined as aiming the power straight up and the S in NVIS stands for "Skywave". So if you want to be pendatic, you are correct. However, if you look at the links above, the real world DOES make a distinction between NVIS and skywave. I'll have to read through them, but myself, I consider any signal which is reflected off the ionosphere back to the target receiver, as being skywave, no matter if the angle is 90 or 10 degrees. If it doesn't use the ionosphere, it's not skywave. Sometimes you can have a mix of path modes. IE: being able to receive both the skywave, but also the ground or space wave. In most cases like that, the NVIS path will overwhelm the ground or space wave unless the two stations are very close together. You are correct - NVIS is a form of skywave. And it is considered by experts in the field to be a form of skywave (hence the "S" in NVIS), although for much shorter distances than skywaves utilizing a lower angle of radiation. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry, AI0K ================== |
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