On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Chris Bloy wrote:
Although, we are still having some issues here in Europe as I have noticed that some stations are diging multi callsigns by with -1 -2 -3 prefixes! I still cannot hit PCSAT with my Kenwood TH-D7 on 5 watts using a 4 ele beam.. I have seen a Scottish station digi via FINDU,. but wonder if he is getting in before the footprint hits the mainland Europe.. I'll try again Friday..
It must be better over here in the United States. From Emeryville, CA I managed to get a couple of packets digipeated from PCSAT using only my TH-D7AG fed into the mag mount vertical (a short one at that) on top of my car. I was shocked that it actually worked with only 5w into an omni antenna. For this test I had a 2 minute beacon interval.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KF6KYI-1
Mark (KF6KYI)