Hi Chris

From my own experience;

I use to have a regular contact Sydney to Canberra 280-300km on 2M SSB.
The station antennas were maybe 13dBi at each each and good low noise
preamps were used. I used 3 watts at the Sydney end.

It was about 70% copy at the Canberra end on average. Didnt take much of
a lift to make it a lot better than that.

You are no doubt aware you can model this kind of thing using GPL path
prediction software? You can enter your actual topography/path etc. if
you want more info on this pls ask. I have left some output from these
pgms on http://members.cox.net/vk2yqa but they dont exactly explain all
the parameters.

Cheers Bob W5/VK2YQA

Papa Dog wrote:

2 stations are 130 miles away as the crow flies.