On 8/22/2017 9:25 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
When you are operating purposely with relatively weak signals, as you go up in frequency, the signal loss is much worse when you pop over a hill into a small valley, which may be only a 20 to 50 feet difference in height, where-as the lower freqs seem to "fill-in" better.
UHF systems were so dominant in "flatland" Chicago that I didn't realize that systems in the low VHF region below 50 MHz existed. When I moved to California, I learned that these low VHF systems are widely used exactly because of this "fill-in" property, so necessary in the mountainous terrain of much of the state.
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