N1UR wrote:
“You can put in the effort to improve antennas and location.”
Hi Ed -
Maybe elsewhere that’s true but not in DC you can’t! Here’s a reality check:
1. The noise floor here is S-7 on a good day, S-9 plus 20dB on a bad day, and
you get called an alligator by email after every contest.
2. You can’t erect an antenna more than 10-feet over the highest point on
your house, and it needs to look like a ‘TV antenna’ according to the DC zoning
laws.
3. They don’t even let Cub Scouts launch Estes model rockets here in DC
anymore - it violates the drone no-fly-zone rules.
Masa is lucky they allow antennas on the World Bank building at all, for ARRL
DX, WPX or whatever else.
73,
Ken KE3X
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