Hello all, I have just found a house that I want to buy (in CT) with virtually unlimited acreage for antennae (5 ac abutting hundreds of acres of undevelopable woods), but it is exactly 5 miles from
I used to live within 5 miles of WD8LLD (now W8AV) and think I can comment a little. If the other station has a CLEAN signal, you should have little problem outside of 5 kcs of the other station. You
At 5 miles he should be no problem at all, assuming quality equipment at both stations. I live within 2-7 miles crow-distance of N0AT, K0TO, W0BV, K0XK, W0HW, and K0SF. These stations are all capable
Five miles away is not as close as you are thinking. I had a friend only 1 mile away tops and he would give me buckshot for only about 10KHz either side of his frequency. He ran a small sweep time am
John, The following table gives line of sight pathloss in dB as a function of distance in miles for each of the 6 HF contest bands. As you can see from the table, at 5 miles separation, pathloss is o
I have been through this situation in several cases. One mile separation is not enough! K1IU and I almost killed each other until I moved away. Two miles is OK, but not great. W1RZF (x-WA2TIF) lives
Welcome to Connecticut! This is the way it is. K1CC is 3.5 miles to the north of me. KG1D is 5 miles north. K1ZZ is 3 miles east. K1NYK is 5 miles south. K1KI is 17 miles northwest and line-of-sight.
Thanks everyone for the advice. We went back today to do a final inspection, with checkbook in hand for making a deposit. Turns out there is a 300 acre parcel with a good sized pond to the northeast
Go For It - Take the receiver up there with reasonant antennas and a pre-amp would be good to simulate the gain of full size antennas. Check all the bands and also take an aircraft band receiver. The
Thats baaaaaddddd news dude. About ten years ago we had acontest stn right next to steeltower highvoltage power lines. It was terrible! OK, sometimes in dry weather you couldn't notice the linenoise
<< When we left, we drove to the end of the street (about 75 feet, and there, through the woods, was a big wide swath of deforested land with a superhighway of high tension electricity on those massi
I have a similar situation here, adjacent to square miles of undeveloped forest but with 115 kV power lines crossing my property. They have never caused a problem, unless you count the time a 150-fo
John, I have a main artery feed that consists of all steel towers about 120 feet tall located about 400 yards from my QTH. I am active duty Navy, tend to move around a bit, and am currently renting t
I TRULY FEEL FOR YOU FELLOWS. THE NEAREST STATION TO ME THAT DOES CASUAL CONTESTING IS 75 MILES BY THE HIGHWAY, 45 MILES AIRLINE DISTANCE. THEN AGAIN, IT IS 35 MILES TO THE NEAREST MOVIE HOUSE; SAME
The only way to really know. I selected my home on a 160 foot hill that dropped to a river into that Atlantic with few hundred feet. The performance of the antennas was excellent. The property was s