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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
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. . . |
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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
Roy Lewallen wrote:
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". The weather forecasters seem to call anything over 2,500 feet (In the mountains) so don't blame me. They are still hills and I have hiked mount Hood so I know what a real mountain is. 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. . . Those I call mountains, too. Bill Baka |
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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
Bill wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote: 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. . . Those I call mountains, too. Bill Baka In the antenna context, I think one needs to consider HAAT when making the hill/mountain determination. I would consider Mt. Wilson (about 5000 ft above Los Angeles) a legitimate mountain. Is a hump at 13500 above a valley at 13200 a mountain, or a local hill? |
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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
Jim Lux wrote:
Bill wrote: Roy Lewallen wrote: 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. . . Those I call mountains, too. Bill Baka In the antenna context, I think one needs to consider HAAT when making the hill/mountain determination. I would consider Mt. Wilson (about 5000 ft above Los Angeles) a legitimate mountain. Is a hump at 13500 above a valley at 13200 a mountain, or a local hill? Depends who you talk to. I thought California's definition of mountains was ridiculous when my parents decided to move here. Maybe just the highest hill in the bunch. Great place to put an antenna though. Bill Baka |
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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:48:02 -0700, Jim Lux
wrote: Is a hump at 13500 above a valley at 13200 a mountain, or a local hill? It is a mountain. The valley (more probably a saddle at that elevation for that shallow a depression) is a feature of the same mountain. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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