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May 31st 05, 04:06 AM
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help getting over a hill
.... seek the answer to your question in rec.radio.cb for our "Good Ole
Buddies" take on that question, 10-4? Actually, you may wish to see what they do there... Warmest regards, John "Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help |
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#2
May 31st 05, 04:13 AM
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In article wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22, Jim wrote:
hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help It's possible - the lower frequency may diffract differently (and perhaps more successfully) from the hilltops. It's probably worth trying with some borrowed CB radios; I don't think I'd go out and spend money on CB radios just to experiment. The way I'd deal with a no-line-of-sight situation like this on the 2-meter band (frequency not all that different from MURS) would be to locate some large landmark (preferably a large hill or mountain) which is visible from both locations. I'd then aim a directional beam antenna at it, from each site, and see if there was enough reflection off of the mountain/hill to establish a useful communication link. You'll probably need to get the antenna at your end of the link out of the house - attenuation in the walls is likely to cost you a lot of signal. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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#3
May 31st 05, 04:48 AM
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"Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help CB will most likely work ok, seeing there's only 3 miles between you. antenna height will make a difference. |
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#4
May 31st 05, 05:07 AM
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.... come to think of it, a "Leeneair" brand cb might just be the
ticket!!! Ask 'em about Leeneair radios in rec.radio.cb and see how they feel about it.... chuckle Warmest regards, John "Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help |
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#5
May 31st 05, 04:26 PM
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Is this sort of nonsense really necessary? People come to the group seeking
knowledge, not ridicule. Your supercilious attitude adds little to the discourse. "John Smith" wrote in message ... ... come to think of it, a "Leeneair" brand cb might just be the ticket!!! Ask 'em about Leeneair radios in rec.radio.cb and see how they feel about it.... chuckle Warmest regards, John "Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help |
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#6
May 31st 05, 05:24 PM
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Fred:
I stand corrected, you are right... I am sorry... CB is hard to take without a little humor though... Warmest regards, John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... Is this sort of nonsense really necessary? People come to the group seeking knowledge, not ridicule. Your supercilious attitude adds little to the discourse. "John Smith" wrote in message ... ... come to think of it, a "Leeneair" brand cb might just be the ticket!!! Ask 'em about Leeneair radios in rec.radio.cb and see how they feel about it.... chuckle Warmest regards, John "Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help |
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#7
May 31st 05, 08:20 PM
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John Smith wrote:
Fred: I stand corrected, you are right... I am sorry... CB is hard to take without a little humor though... Warmest regards, John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... Is this sort of nonsense really necessary? People come to the group seeking knowledge, not ridicule. Your supercilious attitude adds little to the discourse. "John Smith" wrote in message ... ... come to think of it, a "Leeneair" brand cb might just be the ticket!!! Ask 'em about Leeneair radios in rec.radio.cb and see how they feel about it.... chuckle Warmest regards, John "Jim" wrote in message news:wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22... hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help You need to get lowev in freq. I can't just pop the MUF for any given point in time, but for what you are talking about I would bet that 75, 80 meters would do it most of the time for you as long as it is darkish of course! :-P gud luck, 73, Butch KF5DE |
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#8
May 31st 05, 09:33 PM
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On Tue, 31 May 2005 02:55:24 GMT, Jim wrote:
hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house. the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at the campground and no luck. Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help Have you tried a raised antenna or are you talking on HTs? I suspect that if you put up an outdoor vertical CB antenna at both sites you should have no problems. -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW |
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