On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:19:31 -0500, Gary wrote:
First off I don't really believe in one way propagaiton unless someone
can convince me otherwise ? However, I am curious about a phenomenon
I've experienced with a number or radios and antennas over the years.
I've had eveything from a 4 element Yagi at 55 feet to the dipoles I'm
using now and lots of new transcievers. I work all CW and on occasion
I'll get a 599 signal report from the other station yet he's barely
copyable from my end. They all seem to be running the same 100 watts
or more that I'm using now and are using a dipole cut for the
frequency in use like I am or a G5RV etc. I wonder if anyone else has
observed this and/or has an explanation ? This has occured on new
transceivers too numerous to name over the years. So I know its not a
problem with a particular radio.

I run 9.5 Watts from a rare'ish grid square on 6m.
Almost everybody else is running 100W or more.
I get 5/9 reports from many, many S-3 to S-8 sigs. :-)
If I give _my_ rpt first, I nearly always get the identical or better
report from the other end.

Seriously, tho'. I've seen One-Way-Is-FAR-MORE-Favorable-Than-The-Other
propagation often -- on HF, and on 6M & 2M SSB.
I don't really believe there is _no such thing as_ one-way propagation.

73
Jones
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