What time of day, in UTC/Zulu/GMT time, and on which bands do Japanese stations most often hear eastern U.S. stations at this point in solar cycle 25? I am located in Grid EM95iv in northwestern North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian mountain chain, and am using a 130 feet (39.63 meters) length doublet antenna sometimes called a antenna being fed with 300 ohm open wire feeder line or ladder line if you will that then uses a 4 to 1 Balun Designs model 4115t 5 kilowatts rated current balun to a short piece of about 35 feet (10.67 meters) of RG-213 coaxial cable going to my Palstar AT1500CV manual roller inductor antenna tuner or I use a I have up on a 30 feet (9.14 meters) long telescoping pole for my only antennas. The Solarcon A-99 vertical is also called a Antron 99 and was an old 11 meter (CB radio) antenna that works great on the 6 through 17 meter bands. I hear DX most of the time better using it than I do on the doublet horizontally mounted wire antenna. It does not work on 20 meters, although it will tune on 20 meters the Solarcon A-99 vertical antenna pretty much goes deaf once I tune below 18.068 Mhz. I have worked a lot of DX using that antenna, especially on the 17, 15, 12, and 10 meter bands, but I think my elevation on this small mountain named Bald Mountain, (
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, I live on helps me tremendously. My QTH is at 1,434 feet ASL = 437 meters ASL.?Thanks in advance for the information! Very 73 De Cliff, KU4GWA1 CW Club # 3440
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