If you're hitting the 195 Vaca Repeater it probably has a number of active voting receivers in operation.
If you're talking about the 147.000 Vaca Repeater... it normally has a single mountain top receiver. The 145.470 Vacaville Repeater can be operational using various combinations of single and multiple voting receivers. All the mentioned repeaters use quite different antennas for quite different reasons. Sometimes repeater users might not know what we are doing up on the various mountain tops. And of course you're always welcome to ask and participate... cheers, skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com > Dave Gomberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:11 5/10/2008, Ron Wright wrote: > >At 122 ft HAAT you can get 30 miles to a mobile, but this is > >assuming flat terrain. To an HT not unless one is on a mountain or > >air plane, hi. > > I routinely hit the Mt Vaca repeater (2m, 2900ASL) from a hilltop > (780ASL) 50 miles away. Most of the intervening terrain is > relatively low. Using 5w and a rubber duck on an Icom T7H. So all > you need is a good line of sight, even for a pretty long distance.
