Jim Brown wrote: > Is the big mountain behind it reflecting the signal over the pass to the > south west? We have found this propigation consistant for the last 3 > years the repeater has been on the air at this site. Some smaller hills > are within 5 miles of the site to the east, but the ground gradually > rises to a 7800 ft pass on US Hwy 70. The repeater is in and out to the > top of the pass on the west side, but is solid coverage to the Apache > reservation. Coverage drops off rapidly to the north of the repeater > site, as would be normally expected.
Cool story. I think I have already mentally filed our "mystery" reflection/propagation here under the "Don't touch it, you'll break it." category, brain file-folder. :-) Nate WY0X