Howdy,
I had our standard Saturday breakfast meet with our Houston radio club
and swapped stories with 2 other most-credible club members; Does
anyone on QRP-L, whom I believe to be a technically superior group, have
an answer to the following; I do not:
Why????
1. Extra Class Op with over 300 DX confirmed countries didn't even hear
HAARP, despite knowing freq's and times and searching with his standard
DX rig which has placed him in the top of the envied 300+ DX confirmed
group.
2. Very experienced QRP op hears HAARP and gives it a trifling 589, but
just above QRN level.
3. Inexperienced op (me) has to yank off headphones due to ear blasting
signal strength, and reports a +10dB to +20dB sig, and as measured by an
ICOM commercially bought rig (IC-706).
Now....all three hams live within 20 miles of each other in Houston.
How could that be? I can't believe that the experienced DX hunter with
over 300 dountries could not even find haarp. But, also, I can't
believe that the most experienced QRP op I know only heard an S8. But
I, with only 2 years experience, truthfully saw a +10dB carrier on a
commrecial Japanese rig meter, yet have the weakest antenna of all (a
40m Vee with 30M parasitic element).
I think these disparate results are statistically significant and am
copying/pasting to the HAARP page because of that. But do any of you
geniuses out there have an explanation of how a sig could be so
disparate over such a small geography as a 20 mile stretch of
Houston?????
I do not, and after this test, am thankful that I am not designing a
transmisson sytem to globally communicate with subs, planes, etc.....I
think it's an impossible dream, especially after witnessing such local
results of the latest "Big Fox Hunt"............
And I'll take 'with a major grain of salt', the next 5NN or the next 33N
that I receive from the ham bands, since I can only attribute such
disparate results as above, as clear demonstration of the inadequacy of
the human form as an analog interpretive device.......
-- WA8GHZ /5 / "I know the guy who built my radio." Jack /Houston/
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