Hello Jay

Dunno if that's you in HRHG, but 6 meters was really wild, I guess, from
what I'm hearing.

You need SSB (or possibly CW) to work it. Too much flutter otherwise. Too
much multipath (and changing constantly at that) otherwise (for FM).

Why is it that there is more intelligent conversation and discussion of more
interesting modes in the cb group than the ham group?

Curious minds and that


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Jay in the Mojave" wrote in message
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Hello A.E 352 and Steveo:

Ok that sounds like multi pathing to me! That is two or more signals of
the same station arriving at the different times to the receiver.

In FM its really bad.

I once bought a FM Broadcast Band Directional Beam Antenna. I wanted to
hear a FM Station over the hills in Santa Monica. It was KNAC heavy Rock
n Roll Station, that no one could hear.

I installed a mast next to the side of the front of the house. And
pointed the beam towards Santa Monica to hear KNAC. I could hear several
stations on the same frequency and a lot of distortion. After turning
the beam away from the Santa Monica, and towards the mountains behind my
house KNAC came in loud and clear, and full quieting, even had the
"Stereo" Light come on. But station was a disappointment.

http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/multipath.html

But I did learn about multi path.

I wonder if the radio signals are bouncing off the Aurora and having
multipath?

I know I have heard local power stations have their signal bounce off a
local atmosphere, causing back scatter, and those signals wernt strong
enough to miltipath. I think.

Jay in the Mojave

Steveo wrote:

It made stations sound warbled sorta like when someone has a low power
supply behind their transmitter.