Gary, I am in Southern Oregon and I understand exactly what you are experiencing. We have very similar problems down here with our club's repeater. I have often talked about and even done some serious looking at remodeling a set of broadcast loops and harness for 2 Meters.
I know there was a southern California repeater back in the 70's that used circular polarization with excellent results. They were able to provide much better coverage in their main service area, but did loose some long distance coverage outside their main coverage area. We have had the best success by using a lower gain antenna. We have been using the Telewave broadband two loop antennas with 2 - 4 degrees of downtilt, for both our 2 Meter and 440 MHz repeaters. I have found much better close in (0-30 Miles) coverage, less muti-path, and they cost quite a bit less than a Super Stationmaster. Good Luck and keep us posted with what you find for results. Joe - WA7JAW --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Gary - K7EK" <gary.k...@...> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > I am in a particularly sticky situation with one of my two meter repeaters in > Lakewood, WA (Tacoma). I have generally great coverage, however there is a > very annoying problem with multipath and raspy signals in a large portion of > my coverage area. Since the Puget Sound area of Western Washington is very > hilly and mountainous, multipath is very damaging to all forms of VHF > communication.
