Great summary Kevin.

Wanna trade sites?  :-)

Our sites are all so bloody noisy that blowing more power from them 
rarely helps, either at the site or out away from the hills, sadly.  So 
you're right -- it's all about usable receiver sensitivity!  (GRIN)

Of course, the opposite is also true... even though they're noisy, 
altitude really helps trump that.

They hear stuff I'm always amazed they hear, considering they're already 
operating at a disadvantage of also hearing a city of 3-5 million 
people's RF *CRUD*... since they can "see" all of it.

You hear some guy trying his HT out 100 miles hilltopping, and you just 
shake your head and wonder how the heard it.  (GRIN)

Speaking of cutting the crud... (ha!)... the D-STAR system on the "evil" 
pair of 145.25- seems to really "cut through" the analog CATV leakage on 
it's output just fine, in areas where the cable system is leaking.

A good use for a normally really BAD pair to use for analog, perhaps in 
many areas?

The "busy" indicator on my mobile rig is always lit, but the radio sits 
silent, and hears the repeater over the fluttery analog carriers that 
are always present in any large metro on that pair (unless the cable 
company is better than Comcast at containing leaks!) just fine.

Interesting side-effect of having to use that pair for the D-STAR system 
here was in finding out that the user rigs and the repeater do just fine 
with the constant but weak (in most areas) analog interference.

Nate WY0X

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