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Subj: Re: The maggic band !...
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
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That is not the answer Andy. I read reports in AR magazine of the DX being
worked in the eastern states of Australia, and NZ yet we are not getting
the same here. One problem is that E's seem to work best north to south.
North of here in the Es range is our empty north, empty of VHF amateur
operators, and the south is sea to the south pole. The east coast is
different with most of the population of Australia running north and south
down the eastern strip (4.5 million of the 20 million Aussies in Sydney
and another 3.5 or so in Melbourne???). It is the east-west signals that
are missing, not the north south. Our signal going north will land in
empty space unless there is an amateur in range and there might be one VHF
operator in the whole of the north and only two or three amateurs at all..
The beacons I hear most here are in Darwin and the Alice, north east of
here..
Things are crook on VHF DX here at present,and it is not lack of stations
to work. I have been working 6 and 2 for 50 years and think I can just
about judge what sort of DX season we are having by now. I have never
known it to be so poor.
Bob VK6BE
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> So in your case the lack of beacons may have nothing to do with
> propagation but with a lack of activity.
>
> - Andy -
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