"Rich Griffiths" wrote in message
ations...
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:46:50 -0700, Sal M. Onella wrote:

"Rich Griffiths" wrote in message
communications...

Until this past year (when rotator cuff surgery took me out), I had
been doing quite a bit of microwave work as a rover (903 MHz - 10 GHz).
I was often impressed by how far over the horizon it would work with
an antenna only about 5 ft off the ground and about 1 W of power.


I did a little mickey-wave engineering, myself. Point-to-point is
easier than broadcast!

"Sal"

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but as a rover the operating mantra was always
just 'Let's try it".

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As an amateur rover, I generally found point-to-point to be more
difficult, because of simple real-world Ham issues that don't have a lot
to do with heavy theory.

That changes things for me! I didn't know the term "microwave rover" was
being applied to amateur radio. I never heard it before and I wrongly
thought you were talking about work -- traveling as a microwave installer.
My bad.

I am absolutely a believer in "Let's try it!" Some very good times have
come as surprises.

"Sal"