Posted: 8/5/2009 11:25:40 PM EDT
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With the Perseid meteor shower peak coming on the 12-13 (or so) of August, I am thinking of doing some meteor scatter experimentation.
Link to primer on meteor scatter Anyone else planning this? I'm planning on going on 6 meters, which I have very little experience doing. |
| I dont know about scatter. But I taled to a guy on the 760 repeater in St Louis for over a half hour tonight. He was in Jonesbourgh AR. I thougth he was in St. Louis saying he was from there. He was usuing three hundred watts and a DV224 beam. I was usung a HT with 5 watts and a 1/4 wave stainless whip ten feet abouve my roof. I'm around 40 miles from the repeater. Kind of neat. I'm guessing heat ducting? |
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I dont know about scatter. But I taled to a guy on the 760 repeater in St Louis for over a half hour tonight. He was in Jonesbourgh AR. I thougth he was in St. Louis saying he was from there. He was usuing three hundred watts and a DV224 beam. I was usung a HT with 5 watts and a 1/4 wave stainless whip ten feet abouve my roof. I'm around 40 miles from the repeater. Kind of neat. I'm guessing heat ducting? Tropospheric ducting will do that sometimes. There is an inversion layer relatively close to the ground that will trap the 2meter signal and 'duct' it in a particular direction. The VHF SSB/CW guys in Southern California would go racing up and down Palos Verdes Hill to get the perfect position to nail Hawaii on 2 meters when a tropo duct was present! |
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I dont know about scatter. But I taled to a guy on the 760 repeater in St Louis for over a half hour tonight. He was in Jonesbourgh AR. I thougth he was in St. Louis saying he was from there. He was usuing three hundred watts and a DV224 beam. I was usung a HT with 5 watts and a 1/4 wave stainless whip ten feet abouve my roof. I'm around 40 miles from the repeater. Kind of neat. I'm guessing heat ducting? I am a member <previous president> of the club that owns that repeater. It is on the Channel 30 tower downton. Hope to hear you some time on the repeater. There are a few other ones the club sponsors including 146.79 and 442.400 in Edwardsville. |
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Several years ago I was ducting 2 meters from Evansville, IN to Nashville, TN which is about 160 miles. Signals were just like they were in Evansville. I was amazed. My rig was an Icom 2100 so I was only running 50 watts through a 5/8 wave verticle on my jeep. When the ducting thing happens it's pretty amazing. |