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Old September 16th 07, 02:17 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Dave Oldridge Dave Oldridge is offline
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Default 10 meter antenna and radiation angles

Cecil Moore wrote in
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Dave Oldridge wrote:
You will not get a consistent path on 10m of 300 miles without some
pretty expensive antenna hardware and high power. Just cannot be
done.


How about moon bounce? :-)


Well, I suppose. People are actually doing that on 10 and 15 when the
moon is near the horizon.

You'd actually get off cheaper trying to do it on 2m SSB (which would
probably work OK if you stacked two yagis one over the other and fed
them with a good amp).


Which reminds me of something that nobody seems to
have mentioned. If a QSO is the only goal, satellite
communications should work well if not too crowded.


With one of the higher birds at apogee, that might actually be a good
solution.

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