From b7c0b39a93b2cac0d7b1b871d47d7ef64a35d775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Graham McIntire Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Reword log contribution call to 'submit them' --- content/blog/why-signals-bend.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/blog/why-signals-bend.md b/content/blog/why-signals-bend.md index e2fc8b1..57b98cd 100644 --- a/content/blog/why-signals-bend.md +++ b/content/blog/why-signals-bend.md @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ A few things I didn't expect going in, now painfully clear from the data.
-**The path is almost always blocked.** The numbers in this section come from the [ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest](https://www.arrl.org/10-ghz-up) logs I've been able to collect so far. In that dataset, 97 percent of logged amateur microwave contact paths are terrain-blocked at an average diffraction loss of 36 dB. Beyond-LOS is not the exceptional case, it is the default case. Clear LOS paths are short and rare. The long contacts that show up in contest logs are all riding atmospheric enhancement of some kind. The sample is as good as it currently is; if you have logs I don't, [please send them](https://prop.w5isp.com) so the distributions sharpen instead of drift. +**The path is almost always blocked.** The numbers in this section come from the [ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest](https://www.arrl.org/10-ghz-up) logs I've been able to collect so far. In that dataset, 97 percent of logged amateur microwave contact paths are terrain-blocked at an average diffraction loss of 36 dB. Beyond-LOS is not the exceptional case, it is the default case. Clear LOS paths are short and rare. The long contacts that show up in contest logs are all riding atmospheric enhancement of some kind. The sample is as good as it currently is; if you have logs I don't, [submit them](https://prop.w5isp.com) so the distributions sharpen instead of drift. **Binary duct detection is a coin flip.** The median contact distance when HRRR says "there is a duct" is statistically identical to when it says "there is not." What separates a working 10 GHz morning from a silent one is the *strength* of the gradient (how far past −200 N/km it gets), the *thickness* of the layer in meters, and whether that thickness matches the wavelength. Ducting is a shape, not a switch.