[SixClub] 6m alive earlier tonight in EL 29

kd4e doc at kd4e.com
Fri Aug 8 09:44:07 EDT 2008


NWS authorities approved that design - the architect
was probably clueless about radio - someone in charge
should have consulted a radio guy.

Typical bureaucratic arrogance and carelessness.

And some people want more government, bordering on
socialism?  Waaaah???

> [1]  Though not as much as the National Weather Service's feedline in 
>      their new building here in Norman. The idiot architect put the 
>      radio room in the *center* of the building, 40 feet under the 
>      roof and about 200 feet back from the exterior wall where the 
>      antennas are mounted. The cable raceway length from the radio 
>      room to the antenna mounting structure is just under 400 feet.
>      Even with LMR-600, they get something like 96% attenuation at 
>      70 cm., and about 85-90% at 2 meters. 
> Mike Andrews W5EGO wrote:


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Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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