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The highlight for me for this year’s CQ WW DX CW wasn’t a QSO that I made, but one that I didn’t make. I made the below recording early Saturday morning on 20m – unfortunately, on the one part of the one band where I occasionally have a small amount of broadband noise that was active at the time The run station is RL3A, and the interesting part is the distortion of the signal. It sounds like some sort of multipath, and that might be due to aurora because the signal would be going over the pole.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yq4yg1kmlljhzp/cqww3.mp3?dl=0
Anyway, I was going through my recordings and thought I’d share, and if anyone has a better theory about the distortion of the signal I’d be interested in hearing it.
Very cool recording and a good example of multipath. With the fantastic sunspot numbers you were hearing the direct SHORT Path (SP) and the LONG Path (LP) with a slight latency, going around the world the long way! You could have probably reduced the “distortion” and copied him better by turning your antenna to null out one path or the other. This also might indicate your Front-to-Back (F/B) ratio on your antenna could be improved upon. I also enjoyed CQWW CW and made 1M points (804 QSOs). 73 de Bill, NE1B
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