In a message to Wayne Sarosi  Jeff Edmonson wrote:
 >> Also I have a 2m LPA and a 2mSSB yagi to go up.
 JE> Hopefully this spring I'll have something up on VHF that I can
 JE> use to work the band openings and thermal inversions.
That's what I'm looking into. I had a small 2m yagi hung horz for
2mSSB but it never performed the way I wanted. The new 2mSSB yagi
(it's a homebrew) is rated at 16dB. It's 16 feet long and maximized
with four mods. I posted it here last year.
The LPA is a 10 element, ten footer 142-150. I'll be running that
vertical. It runs at just short of 9dB. It's also flat (1.3:1 or less)
 JE> I've worked the Tampa area before, on 2m FM, simplex, with no
 JE> more than 15w and an 11-element Quagi.
 JE> Getting the 2m LPA up at 60' and leaving it pointed to the east
 JE> (since I'm on the SE side of San Antonio, anyway) will let me
 JE> hear Houston when they come in as well as anything along the
 JE> gulf, when an inversion comes along.
I worked TX. It's a good path in the fall and spring. Maybe we'll work each 
other some day.
 JE> It'll ALSO get me away from all the RF in the San Antonio,
 JE> area... it's getting RATHER rough around here!
Same here. We have Orlando, KSC and Patrick AFB. We are limited to 50w
on 70cm. But here I have noticed, most are heading up into the 800 and
900 MHz range.
73
-WS
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