Archer wrote:
I have a Radio Shack roof top antenna, I bought about five years ago,
it still works great.

It's a long range antenna, model vu 210, the best one they made, but
they don't make it anymore.

I had a similar antenna about thirty years ago, it seemed to have a
longer range

I lived in rural upstate New York lots of mountains, but I could get
stations as far away as 141 miles, namely Ottawa and stations 75 miles
away like Montreal.


I also used to live in NNY, Potsdam, and did quite a bit of 2m and 6m
weak signal work, as well as the obligatory FM. The St Lawrence Valley
plus the ducting from all the moisture from Lake Ontario are most of
what you were seeing. You could often trip the Watertown W2WLR repeater
from Ottawa with a handheld in a modestly tall building, say 4 stories.
Ottawa (CHEZ ?) and Montreal (CHOM, as I remember) FM broadcast were
audible over all of St Lawrence County, and well into Jefferson County
most of the time on a car radio.

Tom
K0TAR