Hello Bill,
Simple answer is YES. The RS series were good examples. I am sure I have done it on FMsats.
Enhanced propagation can extend your range both before normal AOS and beyond LOS.
Most programs seem to only use "line of sight" (LOS) Az/El settings.
One difficulty is that satellite programs may not give you info on where you could talk to, for negative elevations. Only positive elevations. I would like to see tracking programs that could give me info for -10 degrees, not to track in elevation, but to track in azimuth.
One way to make that "elusive DX" QSO.
Stan, W1LE Cape Cod FN41sr
On 3/12/2011 7:25 PM, Bill Dzurilla wrote:
I was giving a presentation at our club meeting called Working DX on the Satellites and afterwards someone had a good question: is it at all possible that tropo, skip, or other form of enhanced propagation can enable a contact via a satellite below the horizon?
It has never happened to me. Has it ever happened?
73, Bill NZ5N
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