[Lowfer] Medfer Antenna.

[Warren Ziegler]

Hi Bob,

> the first beacon i ever heard was just above the BC band
> i copied a station in Pittsburgh from my QTH in York pa about 400 miles

 Not to burst your bubble but Google maps shows York as being 221
DRIVING Miles from Pittsburgh, line of site is of course considerably
less.

-- 
73 Warren K2ORS
                WD2XGJ
                WD2XSH/23
                WE2XEB/2
                WE2XGR/1




On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM,  <riese-k3djc at juno.com> wrote:
>
> the first beacon i ever heard was just above the BC band
> i copied a station in Pittsburgh from my QTH in York pa about 400 miles
> got a QSL,, he was running 100 Mw (?)  and feeding a 10 meter ground
> plain
> blew me away
>
> bob K3DJC
>
>
>
> A good reason for 100 mW input power, and short antenna.
>>
>> Ground wires, ground leads, ground connections, on and on and on and
>> on,
>> all that squabble put aside; The effective range of the radiated
>> signal
>> could be from 100 feet, if your inside a steel building, up to
>> possibly
>> miles, ( yes I said miles ) if your antenna is mounted on a 200
>> foot
>> pole on top of a 3000 foot high mountain !
>> The main issue is the interference to lisenced broadcasters.