[600MRG] XPQ CW thru the daylight hours

[Laurence KL7 L]

Dave - 
 
I should have been more specific  -   its 200W into the Inverted L with about 70ft vertical the rest horizontalish supported by a 75ft pine in the middle - I can run up to 500W but the pine needles sort of start humming, vibrating then ignite, pretty fireworks maybe -but  not good for the local environment as we dont have a lot of snow at the moment - :-)
 
Im guessing, actually a little more than guessing, that my ERP is close to 20W on a good day with the wind behind, but quote the local broadcast engineer when I asked him what he thought of the local ground conducitity "Its @#%#$@! " - insert you own word to match the poor glaciated morraines etc
 
 Here in Anchorage some 40 miles away I can hear the CW signal with a PL600 by the window  at 559 and upstairs in our emergency comms centre (Arco Centre, Dave)   - the signal sits at around 20 over 9 on an unresonated bit of seal blubber on the roof at 200ft agl - just -3dB from the 1430kHz  MW station running 1Kw just down the road from XPQ - so its radiating something...
 
Trouble is these dang mountains and how they knock off the low angle stuff that sometimes occurs on skywave on some bearing - dont help much on groundwave either - weve had virtually nil nights since Sept when high angle multi hop (up to 500 miles) has worked here - its been that bad...so mid West and even Okie and Texas have been poor at lower angles- it was much better in late Summer and early Autumn.
 
I got asked, quite rightly, what is 1/4Y? - which is my  UK version on an upside down quarter wave lambda.
 
Ill be back on either DFCW or WSPR later on - not sure yet.
 
Regards - and thanks for the direct emails chaps - Ive not had more than a couple of daytime reports but Alaska is a bit lite in listeners.
 
regards
 
laurence KL7L  WE2XPQ Palmer Wasilla

 
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:06:40 -0500
Subject: Re: [600MRG] XPQ CW thru the daylight hours
From: n1ea at arrl.net
To: hellozerohellozero at hotmail.com
CC: 600mrg at w7ekb.com

That's more power than WLQ, Lena Point, WKN, Ketchikan, and WKR, Nome were permitted to run.

You're boiling up the RF sauce for sure.

73

DR

On Feb 9, 2015 3:51 PM, "Laurence KL7 L" <hellozerohellozero at hotmail.com> wrote:
Running close to 475kHZ 200W to near 1/4Y Inv L -  CW message thru the day - ground wave profiling etc



Laurence WE2XPQ BP51IP Alaska

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