Extremely Low Take-off Experiment
Working Europe After Local Sunrise
We are preparing to test the lowest component of the verticals's take-off angle. The experiment is to call CQ at weird hours of the day in an attempt to get through to different regions before the band would be expected to be open. The mechanical preparation for this experiment began last Sunday with the restringing of 30 ground radials around the Northeast vertical so that they are symmertrical and taut. This detuned the NE vertical by 50 Khz, which was corrected. Next up will be the relocaiton of the Southwest vertical deeper into the salt marsh, siting it to the northeast of the present NE vertical, rendering the latter the southwest vertical. This will be done in order to more fully deploy its 30 ground radials in a symmertric fashion, as well as to (finally) get both verticals at the same elevation. Relocating the vertical in this fashion will allow its entire ground radial fieldl to be swamped at high tides; at present only half of the raidal field (North East South) extends into the marsh.
After restringing the NE vertical radial field, we hailed Europe at 7:15 AM, which is 12:30 PM Zulu. Two stations were worked in the UK, one being a mobile.
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Working Europe at 7:15 AM, EDT
February 6, 2019
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