"Gary S." Idontwantspam@net wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:47:52 -0500, Buck wrote:

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:17:15 -0500, "David 01"
wrote:


UNLESS you're working through repeaters and live in the valleys of a
mountainous area. Then you're working bounces and if you get too high
(high
off the ground, but not as high as the hilltops around you), you can get
up
out of the signal.

One can also have a problem with height if the get so high as to key
multiple repeaters on a common frequency. While this is more commonly
a problem with aeronautical mobile stations, it also happens around
here for stations on hills between several repeaters or whose beams
line up with more than one repeater.

I have run into this when hiking, and operating from various summits.
I keyed up a repeater in Boston from the summit of Mt. Monadnock
(southern NH) and also got a repeater on the same frequency in CT.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA
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Yeah, I experienced that too in 1991 on top of Mt Mitchell, NC, 6685 ft.
back when few repeaters used tone squelch. 5 watts and I made several people
angry in the southern states.