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echo: ham_tech
to: JEFF EDMONSON
from: ROY WITT
date: 1997-02-26 08:11:00
subject: LPDA Plans

Hello Jeff.
25 Feb 97 07:48, Jeff Edmonson wrote to Roy Witt:
 JE>
 RW>> Did you use a PC program to figure length and spacing, or a
 RW>> long hand formula? I built an LPDA to cover the VHF TV
 RW>> channels to spite my cable operator.  They cut off the
 RW>> NETWORK channels from LA, which have better news coverage for
 RW>> the region than the locals do.  It's not up on a pole and
 RW>> doesn't have a rotor yet, just laying on the roof, pointed in
 RW>> the general vacinity.
 JE>
 JE> Mt Wilson, or the NEW commercial tower that's going on, nearby?
As far as I know, Mt Wilson.  I don't think the new site is ready yet.
 JE> Jeeze, Mt Wilson was a little overcrowded when I was out there, in
 JE> the early 80's!
 JE>
I'm not familiar with the top of the mountain, just what comes off it 
radio/tv wise.
San Diego's mountain top sites are pretty much open space.  Except for the 
CBS and ABC affiliates that occupy a 750 foot mountain on the coast in La 
Jolla. The ABC affilate owns a mountain called Mt San Miguel, which has the 
UHF NBC and others on it.  A friend of mine asks me to  help him work a site 
on that mountain every once in a while.  His repeater site is in the same 
building that houses a commercial radio station and UHF channel 51.  While 
he's busy figuring out something technical with his gang of commercial 
radios, I'm off sneaking a peak at all the other radios in the building.
... Heather Locklear Scratch and Sniff-> лллллллллллллл
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