[Lowfer] Medfer Antenna.

[Warren Ziegler]

Bob,

    Found a distance calculator that gives the line-of-sight distance
between any two cities:
http://www.convertunits.com/distance/from/York,+PA/to/Pittsburgh,+PA

    The straight line distance from Pittsburgh to York,PA comes out to
176 miles.
    Hope this is useful.

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



On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>