'Captain' Kirk DeHaan said the following on 5/22/2011 11:04 AM:
I'm living in a wooded area and am trying to hit our club repeater
reliably. It's cloudy now so I'm and getting a bit of ducting but I have
a lot of trees, mostly poplars, in the direct path. I would have a line
of sight if not for the trees as I'm up enough in altitude. I can cut
the trees, they're mine, but finding the right ones is difficult and i
don't want to waste the whole grove.

I go from keying the repeater with no intelligible signal to not being
able to hit it. Today I actually have an S meter reading due to the
clouds. I am currently using a J-pole and will put up a Yagi soon but
wonder if NVIS would work on 2m? I have only seen references to it being
applied in HF.

'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
N6SXR

I purchased a 10 element 2m Yagi and installed it today. I can now hit
the repeater in question full quieting. The other benefit is I can hit
the one other repeater that I could not even hear before. I am quite
happy now. :-) Now I don't have to cut down any more trees, other than
those I am selling.

Thanks for all the input from everyone. Problem is solved!

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'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
N6SXR

"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here"