Bill wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:

Hi All,

With a small TV antenna from Sears (like Sal, back in the mid 60s), up
5 feet above the roof (split level), on the crest of a hill (6200 feet
in Colorado Springs), I was able to DX Calgary and Edmonton.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

In California we would call that hill a mountain. . .

Depending on where you are in Colorado Springs, you could be at 6200
feet without being on a hill at all, and it probably wasn't any more
than 200 feet high since the lowest point in town is more than 6000 feet
above sea level. The propagation wouldn't be any better than on top of
that size hill anywhere else. Here in Oregon, a 200 footer is barely a
"hill", and certainly not a "mountain".

So if 200 feet is a "mountain" in California, what do you call Whitney
and Shasta, and the Sierra?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL
-- who used to live in a valley at 5200 feet above sea level. . .