I agree Mark. Sounds very weird, but there is no other explanation as to what happened. If it was a problem with the Antenna, it would still be present, or would have happened when it snowed and got windy the other day. SO far everything is back to normal.
Mathew -----Original Message----- From: Mark Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Transmit Problems Solved I have monitored over here on the West Mi area that same stuff going on however there is a limits alomg that coridoor that they limit the power and I am glad I am west of that line myself. M. H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Transmit Problems Solved > > Running vhf and uhf repeaters along the Great Lakes has taught me some > new things. I woke up one summer morning listening to a Michigan > repeater on my vhf frequency on my handheld beside my bed. Tried to key > up my repeater 40 feet away and couldnt even hear it! Could however hold > a conversation on the distant repeater,wild tropo! Also notice local > propagation go from super to dead depending on the layering along the > southern Erie lakeshore. Now if I could just get uhf reliable across > lake Erie-yeah,right! Also,heard the LDE on 10 meters from here some 28 > years ago,impressive! 73,Lee,N3APP > > Bob Dengler wrote: > >>At 1/30/2005 07:11 PM, you wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>I wish to say thanks to all who replied on my issue with the transmit >>>problems. After looking at everything on the repeater, it has >>>cleared itself up. I talked with a few other repeater owner's, and >>>it seems that everyone was suffering. We have related it to weather >>>and propagation. The last two days everything has been back to >>>normal, repeater is heard it's normal range. Why the recieve was not >>>affected is strange, but it works out that way. Again Thanks. >>> >>>Mathew >>> >>> >> >>While I've not experienced this myself, I've had hams in the Ventura/Santa >>Barbara area tell me that they've witnessed signals from line-of-sight >>systems simply go away at times. That area is highly influenced by tropo >>ducting, so maybe there is a connection - if ducts can steer RF into areas >>far beyond line-of-sight, maybe they can also steer signals AWAY from >>normal line-of-sight areas? >> >>I have no explanation as to why your RX wasn't affected unless the same >>tropo conditions steered away the atmospheric noise that normally >>dominates >>2 meters; with both signal & noise reduced the overall S/N change at your >>low noise RX would be minimal. This would be quite an interesting study >>for anyone interested in VHF propagation & radiometry. >> >>Bob NO6B >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
