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I was partially thinking along the same lines.

The longer darkness and sea-water path perhaps not being the most  
important factors. It is dark long enough anyways now in Europe and I  
beleive the sea-water path should enable 24/7 reception if being part  
of the equation here.

I put my bets on higher QRN and background noise, although there must  
be some places in central Europe where the man-made background noise  
is unsignificant.

My QTH also has a noise handicap in the order of at least 10dB when it  
comes to daytime reception on MF, I would not know what the empty band  
sounds like daytime, had I never brought some RX-gear along to more  
remote places. Same antenna and RX used in both cases just to be sure.

Those who swear by large wire antennas for RX on MF should know they  
are lucky, because that is probably a good sign of living in a  
relatively RFI-free environment.

BR

Paul-Henrik, OH1LSQ





Quoting Stefan Sch=E4fer <Stefan.Schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de>:

> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe this is due to:
>
> -a longer dark time in the upper part of the northern hemisphere (these d=
ays)
> -a significant part of sea water on the path
> -a higher distance to QRN sources (e.g. lightnings between Africa  
> and Italy in the last days)
> -a lower average background noise floor due to the lower population  
> density in these coutries/locations
>
> and a few more which i will remember after sending this email ;-)
>
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
> Am 20.11.2012 16:53, schrieb Steinar Aanesland:
>> Over an period of 24h I have been WSPRing in Ireland, Shetland Islands,
>> Sweden and Finland. but no hits in the central Europe.
>>
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16381257/cap.jpg
>>
>> LA5VNA Steinar
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