On 7/7/17 10:58 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
The biggest "unlevel playing field" issue with Field Day
is the location. FD gives the station builder an opportunity
to choose an unreal location. I remember one year I placed
second in my category, but the number one station totally
blew me away with 3 times the number of points. I asked
him about this, and it turns out that he operated from a
mountain TOP (the very TOP, not just up the mountain somewhere).
He was just unbeatable from this location. He was also
a great operator to boot, but he said the location was the
real key.
Very much so...
JPL and Caltech used to go up to the top of Pacifico Mountain (about
7100 ft), where there is a big flat spot from a former Nike missile
site,with a fairly nice road up, and it falls off on all sides
substantially.
Not only is it electrically quiet being miles from civilization, but the
topography helps a LOT when you're looking for low angle propagation.
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