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Re: [CQ-Contest] Hamvention - New Venue, etc.

To: K7LXC@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Hamvention - New Venue, etc.
From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:24:58 +0700
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Try the Orlando Hamfest.  Big doings there.  Charly

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:55 PM, K7LXC via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  Mobile phone providers have coverage maps that although  not perfect, do
> give some idea of coverage.  For example, at my WV QTH  neither T-Mobile
> nor
> Verizon covers the area.  But visitors using one or  the other of those
> carriers have had their devices work for a minute or two  intermittently --
> enough to alert them to a voicemail or to download some  email.  Then the
> signal is gone again, usually for hours until suddenly  their phone dings
> again with a message or something.   It's called  "propagation."  I'm not
> sure of the mode.
>
>     It might be due to ducting. W7ZR had a  place on the east coast of Baja
> (XE2DV) on the Sea of Cortez where the  cell coverage was very spotty but
> he had a yagi pointing north to AZ and  occasionally he'd have a connection
> due to ducting over the water. I think the  path eventually deteriorated
> and
> I think having no internet access was one  of the reasons he now lives in
> AZ.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve    K7LXC
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-- 
Charly, HS0ZCW
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