Yeah, and you can really get out of a whole on HF.
> I'll never forget it was around 1990 I was with the
> amateur radio explorer post 599 I belonged to in
> Arizona, we were camping up by Pason north east of
> Phoenix, and we were in a little canyon. We hiked up
> about 1000 feet to get up so some of the guys could
> make phone patches home. It was a hole for sure, but
> the night we were there I worked a string of
> Russians
> on 20 with a wire dipole strung between 2 trees with
> 100 watts batery power, and the next
> morning I was working Asiatic Russians on 20. We
> couldn't get out of there on 2 meters with the best
> mobile set up we had out there, but I could talk to
> U
> a land, lol. It was still Soviet just before Yelsen.
> 73
> Shawn
> kb7clx
> --- John Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > What ham license are you looking at, for
> technition
> > where you mainly get
> > UHF/VHF,  you might need an outside antenna, but
> > there's always a way. My
> > sister lives in a place like that and my HT
> doesn't
> > do much from there but I
> > did try a good antenna from around there and it




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