Hi Stan, Responding to excerpts below:
KG7FYI wrote > Our very local scenario is filled with mountains and valleys. We are the > land of “One Hundred Valleys”. Actually there are thousands of them! 2M > is very spotty. > > Our ARES group requires go bags for all vehicles. Few people but a lot > of livestock and gardens here. > > My only concern was availability of frequency bandwidth. We have a least > two Extra Class licenses in the community and one MARS certified. > Unfortunately they are many 15+ miles away deep in a valley. Sounds like a beautiful area! You probably know this but NVIS would be a perfect solution for you. 40 meters would be the easiest NVIS antenna (very low dipole) to implement. "Military NVIS communications mostly take place on 2-4 MHz at night and on 5-7 MHz during daylight." Here's a link explaining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_vertical_incidence_skywave However this would require General Class licenses or higher for voice modes. 73 and Good Luck! Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-P3-and-KAT500-tp7629969p7630119.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
