{"id":9914,"date":"2017-11-29T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/listening-for-your-own-signals-on-the-long-long-long-path\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:33:16","slug":"listening-for-your-own-signals-on-the-long-long-long-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/listening-for-your-own-signals-on-the-long-long-long-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening for Your Own Signals on the Long Long Long Path"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I heard some guys talking about this on 40 SSB last night. A very cool use of the bidirectional pattern of the W8JK beam. <\/i><\/span>
From:<\/i> <\/span>http:\/\/qrznow.com\/the-w8jk-is-a-famous-and-effective-dx-antenna\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span> Round-the-world paths The bi-directional nature of this antenna makes it possible to discover open round-the-world paths, something not possible with a normal beam antenna. The technique used by Kraus is to rotate the beam slowly, sending short Morse code dots, with a full-break-in or <\/span>QSK transceiver<\/a>\"\". The delay time for the signal to return is about one seventh of a second, so there is plenty of time for your transceiver to switch to receive mode. When you have found and peaked an open round-the-world path, call CQ, and you may be rewarded with DX anywhere along the path. Also, the question of Long-path and Short-path does not arise \u2013 you are transmitting on both paths at once, giving you a greater chance of catching the other station\u2019s beam direction\u2026.<\/span>

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I heard some guys talking about this on 40 SSB last night. A very cool use of the bidirectional pattern of the W8JK beam. From: http:\/\/qrznow.com\/the-w8jk-is-a-famous-and-effective-dx-antenna\/ Round-the-world paths The bi-directional nature of this antenna makes it possible to discover open round-the-world paths, something not possible with a normal beam antenna. The technique used by Kraus … Continue reading “Listening for Your Own Signals on the Long Long Long Path”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-propagation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}