'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!

--
'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
N6SXR

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

On 6/17/2011 8:03 PM, 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan wrote:
'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!


Glad to hear it, Kirk. Good work on your part.

73,
John - KD5YI

On 18 jun, 03:03, 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
wrote:
'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!

--
'Captain' Kirk DeHaan
N6SXR

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

Hello Kirk,

Thanks for the feedback on the outcome of your experiments, and to
hear that there is no problem anymore.

Wim
PA3DJS
www.tetech.nl