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Hi Holly,
I have worked a 2 meter repeater that was 20 miles away with a hand held
running 5 watts and a 5 eighth wave antenna. I took the same radio and
connected it to a ringo ranger 2 at 68 feet and was able to work repeaters
up to 80 miles away. I then bought an amplifier and at 30 watts If I could
hear it I could probably work it. I was told that a yagi would help my
signal even more. So, I bought a ten element one. At this point I really
didn't get much of an improvement over the ringo ranger 2 but it made
everyone else happy. One thing to think about with people giving you signal
reports. When I lived in Texas some people about 80 miles away said that
they couldn't hear my 30 watt signal very well. So, I turned on a bigger
amplifier and they told me that my signal hadn't improved. Well, I had just
gone from 30 to over 150 watts so I knew that my signal was about knocking
them out of their seats.
Now you have pretty much all I know about Two meters and signal
strength.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly Alonzo" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: another question
> Ok I've figured this much out. From here to the repeater it is all flat
> land, like fields for farming and stuff. It's a small town so not many
> high buildings and such. I looked on map quest and from here to there
> is 18.5 miles, but that is taking the roads. so if you went like the
> crow flies I'm not sure how much it would be. But does anyone think I
> could hit this? I'm trying to get one of the guys from the club to come
> out and see what he can hit.
>
> Thanks,
> Holly
>
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