[MRCA] BC-611 Range

[B. Smith]

    Mark KD3ZK, Dave Kb3ELD and k4che had pretty good luck with BC-611's 
across the water last year.  We would have gone further but we ran out 
of water.

Z
http://k4che.com/Ft.%20DuPont%20March%202012/Ft%20Dupont%20March%202012%20pg%201.htm


On 8/24/2013 9:29 PM, mac wrote:
> About 10 years ago a question came up out here concerning D-Day COMs 
> and whether or not a BC-611 could have been used from the beach to 
> direct supporting Navy gunfire.  Ran a test here between Ft. MacArthur 
> in San Pedro and the SS Lane Victory on one of it's summer cruses out 
> to Santa Catalina Island and back.  Our conclusion was a definite YES 
> to the original question as also confirmed by Rob and Brown, see below 
> (provided the Navy was listening, of course).  At the time equipment 
> problems unfortunately precluded our finding out just how far 
> 611-to-611 COMs could be maintained over a clear salt water path.  On 
> another occasion, though, with a BC-611 on the ship and a GRC-9 on the 
> beach at San Pedro, the GRC-9 voice signal was received loud and clear 
> all the way out to the Island, a distance of 25 miles.  Voice COMs 
> back from the -611 were lost long before that but the carrier was 
> still strong enough from the island to make out CW characters sent 
> with the PTT switch.
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
>
> ***************
>
> On Aug 24, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Rob Flory wrote:
>
>> At the same event that Chris mentioned, I worked W1NZR and KW1I, each 
>> using their BC-611s, with my TBX set, over about 12 miles of water.  
>> No enhanced antennas were used.
>>
>> Breck, are you adjusting the internal antenna loading coil to match 
>> the vertical, or doing something external?
>>
>> RF
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Christopher Bowne 
>> <aj1g at sbcglobal.net <mailto:aj1g at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Interesting, can't quite see how you have the vertical connected
>>     to the 611, assume its just clipped on to the 611's slightly
>>     extended whip?
>>
>>     When LST325/WW2LST came up to Mass Maritime Academy through
>>     Buzzard's Bay back in 2005, I recall making a solid contact with
>>     Perry on the port bridge wing with his hand held 611 to my GRC-9
>>     "coastwacher" setup on the beach of West Island, across a LOS
>>     path of about 3 miles.  I was using a beach mounted vertical whip
>>     similar to yours with 4 80 meter 1/4 wave radials with at least
>>     two of them run into the salt water with the Angry 9.
>>
>>
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