[BC] STL neighbors

Mark W Earle wa2mct
Thu Feb 23 13:33:03 CST 2006


Their studio was 30 degrees off from the receive antennas, same
freq/polarity. Bot of us could not change polarity. 

When the enhancement happened, they captured it. 

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:26:47 -0700 "Kent Winrich, K9EZ"
<kwinrich at gmail.com> writes:
> You had a station on the same frequency and same polarization 200 
> miles away? And in a similar direction?
> 
> Mark W Earle wrote:
> 
> >We had a LOS path at ~950 Mhz, 5w transmit, about 200' 7/8", roof 
> mounted
> >4' dish. That was 180'. Receive end was about 150' up the tower, 6' 
> dish.
> >
> >Path was 10.8 miles. You could SEE the tower without optics, and 
> SEE the
> >TX building with binocs - there was nothing in the way at all, 
> terrain or
> >other buildings.
> >
> >Many, many, mornings we'd fade out, and then spanish language from 
> a
> >station 200 miles north of us would come in. We finally solved it 
> by
> >using a dish 15' off the ground mounted on the ice bridge. We also 
> got
> >the leased lines hooked up and switchable via the remote control.
> >
> 
> 
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Mark 
KLTG 96.5  KLHB 98.3  KOUL 103.7  KMJR 105.5
wa2mct at juno.com    Corpus Christi, TX


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