Thanks Chris...we will definitely have to play with that. Like I said in the previous post, some people have mobiles mounted on their snow machines (probably 5 people), but the rest of the group run HT's with much lower power (and much worse antennas). It will definitely give us plenty to play with over the winter.
I appreciate you guys letting me get off topic here...but I will try to find a better venue for this discussion in the future. In the meantime, you are welcome to visit our club website at http://al7yk.org/blog Thanks, Spencer Hamons - KL2RA Bethel, Alaska --- In [email protected], Chris Kantarjiev <c...@...> wrote: > > One thing I'd suggest before you make any decisions about peripheral > digis and reach: do some real-life tests. In one of the areas that > I regularly try to do APRS work, I can *hear* lots of signals from 60-75 > miles south, but I can't *decode* any of them. That tells me that > the digi down there (I'm not going to name names) is running more > power than is useful, because all he's doing is tying up the > channel beyond his range. (He can't hear me well enough to decode/digi, > even running full power from my D710.) > > A 200 foot tower will give you lots of range, both xmit and rcv. But > the trick in setting up the system to work the way you want will > be to figure out just how much useful range that is. You're really > only going to figure that out by testing. > > 73 de chris K6DBG >
