An Odd HF Propagation Experience
It was a dark and stormy night in Downeast Maine. Well, dark. Stormy, not so much, this time. If you read my brief story in June 2016 CQ,1 you may recall that a vacation in Southwest Harbor, Maine, is a summer tradition for my family. While there, I set up a portable station to enjoy some ham radio while away from home. This story concerns some interesting propagation oddities on HF that I experienced during my stay in Maine two years ago, in July 2017.
If you don’t have access to the original article, here is a brief summary of heavily loaded at top and bottom (). The transceiver is controlled by a Windows 7 laptop running DXLab for day-to-day operation and N1MM Logger+ for contests. Both the IARU and IOTA contests occur during our stay and I enjoy operating in both, even though the station is far from competitive.
