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[NO9E]

A few days ago DF2BO operated on 80 m early morning. He uses a 2 el beam at 90 ft and he was 59+10. I have 4 sq and  aKW, and usually I am heard 59 when other stations are barely heard. This time he heard lots of stations with G5RV and low dipoles but not me.  I wonder it it was a high angle propagation. If so, everyone can work 200 countries on 80m but needs to be around at the right time.

Ignacy, NO9E

[K6SDW]

Or grayline propagation?

GL/73

[N4OGW]

Yes, sometimes sunrise enhancement on the low bands is high angle with very strong signals. A long time ago I was operating an NAQP contest from a station in IL. After the contest was over it was around sunrise in Europe and I was tuning around on 160 m. Many EU stations had 599+ signals- very unusual for IL. They came right back to me when I called with 100 W. The antenna I was using was a 1/4-wave sloper from a low (65 ft) tower. I had previously operated from this station in a 160m contest and found that the same antenna worked great for local contacts (high angle) but was lousy for DX.

In my experience such propagation doesn't happen very often, and I don't know how to predict it. 95% of the time a vertical is much better.

Tor N4OGW

[WA3SKN]

Who's morning?
Propagation is more complex than you know.  I would suggest keeping times in UTC as a start... at least there is a reference and we know when in happened.
73s.

-Mike.