[BC] RE: DRM

[Mark Humphrey]

11 meters isn't the best choice for building penetration (although it can't
be any worse in that respect than the existing AM band) but in
suburban/rural areas, results might be surprising.

There's a 29.62 MHz amateur FM repeater (KQ2H) located in Wurtsboro, NY
(southern Catskills) that I receive reliably here at a distance of over 100
miles, using a way-out-of-tune 6m vertical dipole about 15 feet off the
ground.  I drove to Vermont recently and found I could copy it fine all the
way from central NJ, around the western suburbs of New York, through the
Hudson Valley to beyond Bennington, VT.   I used to have similar doubts
about groundwave propagation in the upper HF region until I heard this for
myself.

Granted, this guy is running over a kilowatt and has access to a good site
-- but from a broadcaster's perspective, there's nothing unusual about that.


www.geocities.com/aa2ls/kq2h.html

It should be interesting to follow the results of the 26 MHz DRM tests in
London and see what conclusions are reached over there.

Mark


On 2/12/06, Kent Winrich, K9EZ <kwinrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is called propagation.  Can you imagine trying to cover a metro
> area with a decent 26 MHz signal?  The ground wave characteristics
> are rather poor at that frequency.
>
>