According to QRZ, Beacon Doug, W7RDB, is on the Sammamish Plateau and not in Seattle. Seattle is due west of Doug unless his repeater is at some other location. Line of sight distance between my QTH and W7RDP is about 11.5 miles. Also, I am on a hill top and depending on where Doug is located we could have close to line-of-sight path. I don't have a gain antenna, just a 300 foot delta loop that I can tune to 6 meters.
Oh, I have not heard his beacon, started listening at about 7:45 PM and it is now 8:10 PM. 73, phil, K7PEH On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > Do we have any experts at path-loss calculations (over typical > Seattlian terrain) on the list? > > Wayne > N6KR > > On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:34 PM, Kevin Rock wrote: > >> I should be line of sight to Seattle. I know I am south of it and >> he is using a gain antenna. Do you think he will reach beyond the >> outskirts of Seattle? >> Kevin. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:26:00 -0700, Wayne Burdick >> <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: >> >>> Also, at 0 dBm power output, his XG3 may only be audible to fairly >>> close stations unless there's a serious band opening. >>> >>> Wayne >>> N6KR >>> >>> On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Kevin, >>>> >>>> Trust that all is well with you. >>>> >>>> It crossed my mind that if your QTH is off the back of Doug's >>>> W7RDP/B Moxon >>>> and you are some distance apart, you might not hear his XG3 beacon >>>> because >>>> of the large f/b ratio that is typical of a Moxon. For example one >>>> of my >>>> wire 40m beams was a Moxon and was back on to Continental Europe >>>> (DLs, Is >>>> and such), and its f/b was a good 30ish db depending on the angle >>>> of arrival >>>> of the Eu signals. >>>> >>>> 73, >>>> Geoff >>>> GM4ESD >>>> >>>> >>>> Kevin Rock >>>> On June 21, 2011 at 22:06 Z, Kevin Rock wrote >>>> >>>>> I have scanned from 50.020 to 50.030 on both my 6 meter >>>>> horizontal loop >>>>> and on my G5RV. No signals at all except for one birdie. >>>>> Kevin. KD5ONS CN85jq >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> >> >> >> -- >> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
