Topband: Vegetation/Housing Effects on Low Angle Radiation

[Hardy Landskov]

K0HA wrote:

> ... would it really make a difference in my signal to
> DX stations if I were living in the middle of a forest

We operated Field Day a couple of years in the Northern Arizona forest.
Giant mistake. The flat lands and Radio Shack push-up poles to hang
antennas on gave us much better scores.....
73 Hardy N7RT



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