Andrew O'Brien wrote: > I was reading the 30M Digital Group web page ( > http://www.30meterdigital.org/ ) and thinking a bit... Much of what > is posted there makes sense to many of the people that are avid users > of the digitalradio Yahoo group. The band is not crowded with > contests, there is less competition with other modes, etc, etc. So, > perhaps we can make more of an effort to use this band, Has anyone > tried it for Digital Voice. ? Also, what typical range does the band > afford in daylight and evening conditions? > > > Andy,
A couple of years ago a friend and I played around on 30M with CW an found that a close ground mounted dipole with reflector makes a GREAT NVIS antenna and we had contacts from 50-75 miles close in out to 2,000+ miles. The dipole was put up at the measured 50 ohm feedpoint heigth and there were three reflectors under the dipole all 20% longer than the dipole and all tied together. 100 watts CW down to 10 watts just banged in all the time. Walt/K5YFW
