[Milsurplus] BC-611 Operational Question

[boeing377 at gmail.com]

I’m an EE and agree with your theoretical analysis but I tried many
different antenna orientations during descent hoping to contact my friend
on the DZ. No joy until I was about half a mile from him vertically.

Mark
AF6IM

On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 8:28 PM Facility 406 <
facility_406 at bruteforcedevelopment.com> wrote:

>
> > I’m not a BC 611 expert but my observations are that it is range limited
> > due to low radiated power. Sure, there will be occasional anomalies
> > where somebody works 1000 miles with a BC 611 but it sure wasn’t
> > happening to me.
>
> 20,000 feet at ground level is almost nothing, and even less in what is
> essentially "free space", your observation suggests antenna radiation
> patterns, rather than low radiated power.
>
> Kurt
>
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