Wow!  what amount of power were you using?  I think that I have worked
someone in West Virginia, but I just brought up arepeater there. I think
it was on 440, but are you sure that the weather forecast wasn't for
travelers?  I know that some NOAA stations provide traveler forecasts.  I
wait for a station ID, but those frequencies are the best in terms of
determing where a band is opened to.





On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Pat Gormley wrote:

> A couple of years ago, I was casually tuning around the weather bands =
> and heard weather from St. Louis and Kansas City from the d.c. area and =
> managed to work stations in Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas on 2-meter fm =
> simplex using an Omni at 70 feet.  I also managed to work into Texas =
> using the same mode. 73- pat kk3f
>