"merlin-7" wrote in message
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A bit of a story here but after you read it, maybe someone can make a
suggestion on the best way to approach this.


Currently, I have a 2-m collinear up 52 feet, fed with LMR-600 The rig is
a yaesu ft-2800m at 65 watts.
When I move to Richlands NC. I plan on moving it up to around 80 feet,
maybe higher if $$$ permits.
Right now, I can only get into the 146.820 when the band opens up. maybe
once a week .( I am pretty sure it is in Wilmington but the antenna on
that
repeater is somewhere around 1,600 ft, or so they say) but it does cover
the
richlands, Jacksonville area.
There is no way that I can get an antenna up high enough (after I move to
the new QTH, to any kind of line-of-site to any of the repeaters here,
near
Charleston SC. However, the whitehall repeater is about 500ft and the
greeleyville repeater is up about 900ft.
What would you all do to increase your odds of getting into a reapeater at
that distance?

Just go as high as possible? add a yagi or stack some yagis?

Pray to the DX gods?

Any suggestions?


Unless you are on a high mountain, anything over 100 miles will be very
difficult to work into the Charleston area. . If you do get your antenna
up high enough to work the repeaters over 100 miles away, you will probably
be very unpopular as you will probablay be keying up several other repeaters
, or if they are using subaudio tones it can still cause problems.

What is the distance to the repeaters you will be trying to work?