Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over the plains? My ham buddies in NE Iowa tell me this is generally the best anyone can do, even if it costs a bit.
Matt Zilmer W6NIA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron D'Eau Claire To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
