NVIS equipment

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(12 July 2012, 08:43)NorthernRaider Wrote: LS Said

Paul,

Your FB group's event yesterday got me thinking and researching before work today.

Its possible that you had a dense sproradic-E cloud of ionisation right overhead and that it was dense enough able to reflect 11m transmissions straight back down to earth (NVIS) this accounts for the high noise floor you experienced, and also the contacts that were achieved in what would normally be the skip zone.
e-layer is 95Km to 120Km high by the way.


Web researching indicates this to be very rare indeed at CB (27Mhz)frequencies.
LS

LS stop posting inside others comment boxes

Cheers NR,

The gremlins are still haunting me it seems!

Good to read that the new radio of yours was picking up stuff on your recent travels. Hopefully ther will be a lot more prepper activity on the CB bands before too long:-)

LS