At 10:49 AM 3/12/02 EST, K7LXC wrote:
> Too high? Just ask the guys on mountain tops if they're too high.
Gave up asking those guys a long time ago <g>. There's a lot of folklore
out there, but there's also a very good section in Dave Leeson's book on
hilltop locations and their up- and downsides.
> Actually for JA they had 'beach antennas' mounted at the bottom of the
>bluff aimed up Puget Sound. The 300' bluff behind them added LOTS of
>attentuation to those pesky W6's and W5's trying to work the same path.
That's kind of what I figured. Open wire feedlines?
73, Pete N4ZR
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