[Elecraft] [KX3] Band Plans

[Edward R Cole]

To all who cite how their state police use low-band VHF (30-50 MHz).

Yes, I've heard that touted for years (decades), yet the Alaska 
Troopers (state police) use high-band VHF (150-175 MHz).  Their 
car-to-car simplex is 155.250 MHz.  Only state utility that uses 
low-band (47-MHz) is the AK DOT.  I personally know that they 
installed a base station in the home of a worker (his wife was 
KL7UP-sk) perched on a hill overlooking Turnagain arm to provide a 
link from Anchorage (about 25-miles) to a hwy maint camp 16-miles 
further up a mountain valley.  They now have a hwy repeater near the 
maint camp others along the Seward Hwy which probably provides hwy 
coverage.  The Seward Hwy+Sterling Hwy "are" the"I-5" of Alaska (not 
to mean its a freeway - its mostly 2-lane 55mph hwy - but see's 
highest traffic use in AK).

So all I can say about 6m prop from Kenai to Anchorage: low rolling 
hills and over water is that higher frequencies (222) propagate 
better (1991- to date experience).

Now I return the reflector to normal "Elecraft oriented" use.

73, Ed - KL7UW
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