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Useful propagation tool

Popoutman · 2020-07-19 11:06:26

See here: https://www.voacap.com/hf/ for a *very* useful online tool/calculator for guessing how well one's signal would propagate across the world. As far as I can gather it does use current space weather conditions and ionospheric states in the model. Kind of a pity at the moment that long range comms are hard with the…

19-07-2020 11:06AM

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See here:
https://www.voacap.com/hf/

for a *very* useful online tool/calculator for guessing how well one's signal would propagate across the world.

As far as I can gather it does use current space weather conditions and ionospheric states in the model.

Kind of a pity at the moment that long range comms are hard with the dearth of solar activity - just the right time to be coming into the hobby...
(But I did just about hear Bob VP8LP (the guy that confirmed that the Argentines had in fact invaded the Falklands in 82) at a distance of 12600km on 20m yesterday across the Atlantic Oceans)

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