"Brian Kelly" wrote in message
om...
"Bert Craig" wrote in message
t...
You just can't legislate propagation. Even if all the users complied
with
the 155.3 mi. limit, the QRM from legal comms in distant places makes
local
work difficult, if not impossible. I've experienced a S7 noise level
from
distant comms personally and the guy in Germany came in clearer than
someone
across town. When the band's open, 12 Watts will work the world.

I'm reasonably conversant on the topic of HF propagation, I hold
5BDXCC #142 dated April '72. Which I had before I got into working
with this TW group. This is a densly populated region (Philly) and
there were/are enough garbage mouthed CB locals to jam the TW comms
without any help from distant skip-shooters.

Sorry OM, I didn't mean to "lecture" re. HF propagation. Just relating my
own personal experiences. Sorry to hear about the garbage mouthed locals.
The only real problem I've experienced up here is the "splatter" from the
really high powered (Multi-kW) guys running AM on ch. 6. An additional IF
filter to increase the ACR of the rig solved that problem.

Sorry to hear that, Brian. Do you operate AM or SSB? I've had good luck
on
channels 36 through 40 using SSB.

SSB. Any channel which seems to have intelligent life. Maybe I'll take
another look in a couple years.

Hope you have better luck. :-)

W3RV/KLK1937

--
73 de Bert
WA2SI