Austin Texas to Karachi Pakistan

[mdavis735]

Lets see if I can make this video work. This is on my HR2510 with a Palomar 200x and Maco 103c pointed east.
David Karachi Pakistan 38-39 lsb - YouTube

 

[Mudfoot]

Good job.

 

[mdavis735]

Thank you sir. I really like my 2510. Always wondered what the fuss was about. Not that the setup had anything to do with this contact.

 

[Robb]

Very nice contact.
Congrats!

 

[gamegetter]

8,500 miles roughly i figured using google earth...nice grab!

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Good job.

Especially since his beam was pointed east and the bearing from Austin Texas to Karachi Pakistan is 16.5 degrees.

 

[gamegetter]

captain, don't gamma matches cause this pattern skew on beams?

we have talked about the beta matches and I know you and i have built these before(from another thread) and it seems to me when i put a beta on my 3 element beam back in the 70's it really helped my pattern and point of my beam.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

captain, don't gamma matches cause this pattern skew on beams?

we have talked about the beta matches and I know you and i have built these before(from another thread) and it seems to me when i put a beta on my 3 element beam back in the 70's it really helped my pattern and point of my beam.

A beta match CAN help clean up the pattern and some gamma fed yagis are skewed a bit but the difference is not all that much. I know where you are going with that but IMHO it is just not enough to make a hill of beans difference. The mast and surrounding environment as well as the feedline placement probably accounts for some skewing regardless regardless of the feed type used.

 

[Bundy]

Nice videogate, what a trip

 

[mdavis735]

So are you saying it wouldn't be in the correct direction? I will look at the beam with my compass tomorrow. I don't have a rotor on it and am not sure the exact direction, but I think I had put it east/northeast.

 

[mdavis735]

Ok. So using my iphone compass its pointed approximately 22-24 degrees. Does that make it more or less likely?

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Ok. So using my iphone compass its pointed approximately 22-24 degrees. Does that make it more or less likely?

That is a big difference from the original statement of "east" which is what I was going on. Depending on whether that is a true bearing or magnetic ( I suspect magnetic|) it is between damn near on and close enough to not matter much at all. IOW a LOT more likely in both cases.