[600MRG] Ground Wave Propo

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 6 Jan 2014 at 10:28, sbjohnston at aol.com wrote:

> On a related note, I've been trying to find out what ship-to-ship CW
> contact distances were typical around 500 kHz.

According to many of the operators who used that band, at night the 
distances ship-to-ship, in the Pacific were literally shore to shore, E to W., 
U.S. to Japan.

There is a short "article" on that by a retired USCG operator, Jeff Herman, 
who was at one time, and may still be a subscriber to this list. It can be 
found on the web somewhere by diligent searching.

It is very informative and also entertaining.

>  The antennas and
> counterpoise/ground conditions are probably better than most hams
> would be able to accomplish, but it could give us a benchmark.  My 50
> watt marine reserve 500 kc transmitter is meant to feed a relatively
> short wire antenna so it could be a reasonable comparison.

Yes.

Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John   
Wayne