10 Nov 2017

Real or Fake?

Supposedly this guy worked 2m transatlantic in 1982 on FM. I find it hard to believe this was genuine. It seems amazing that this was not well publicised at the time. Make up your minds.
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2 comments:

Steve McDonald said...

That is surely very interesting Roger! The exchange of cards certainly adds more credibility to his story. He mistakenly read the date as the '28th of June' which would put it in the middle of sporadic-e season...right near the peak time actually, but the card says the month was 'IV' which is April, which would make the chance of 2m Es much much less.
It's too bad that he waited so long to talk about this and I suspect we will never know but what we do know is that propagation is capable of some unexplainable behavior at times. I often refer to it as 'the magic of radio' as there simply are no reasonable answers to how these things occur.

Steve 73

Fri Nov 10, 04:09:00 pm GMT
Steve McDonald said...

He has now issued a retraction

Mon Nov 13, 06:49:00 am GMT

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