Lew, There are exceptions to the rules concerning 6m FM transmissions and we're one of them!
Here in the Eastbay area I sometimes use a local repeater on 52.900/.400 (pl:144.8hz.). I'm located in Concord which is approximately 23 (airline) miles from the repeater on "Patterson Pass" slightly east of Livermore. Under normal conditions that obviously would'nt be a problem on 6m FM, but here IT IS!!! We have (2) mountains between us and the repeater, Mt. Diablo which is @ 3749 feet and the adjacent sister mountain know as "North Peak" which is right next to Diablo and right in our path to the machine. The ONLY WAY that we can access that box is to us "HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION"!!! We'd tried MANY other "vertical ant. schemes and NONE of them worked, even using vertical polarized multi-element yagis! With the 5 element "Cushcraft" yagi on 6m @ about 22ft high we work into the box very well on a regular basis (HORIZONTALLY POLARIZED)!!! Regards, Jim/nn6ee ______________________________________________________________ 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
