[aprssig] Mt. Washington NH coverage?

[Brian Riley]

But of course! near the highest point in the NE what did you expect?

However, the trail up from The AMC Center in Pinkham Notch into Tuck  
is narrow, closed over by trees and  in many places 'closed in' by  
rock structures to one or both sides. You are talking about GPS lock  
problems, and when you don't have that you have the problem of  
getting RF out. Putting the D700 down in the AMC parking lot as a  
digi will probably not be heard by any stations unless the signal  
takes an freak unpredictable set of bounces. The AMC parking lot is  
completely bounded by rock there is no line of site out and down NH  
16 to the South nor to the north, and there's no digis even close.

Up within Tuck there may be more hope. I just never looked out from  
Tuck with radio in mind. But its a closed in ravine with a  
comparatively narrow opening to the east up which comes the foot  
trail from the AMC camp and the Glenn Ski Trail (the infamous ski  
race called The Inferno ran from the top of Tucks main headwall down  
into the ravine and down the Glenn trail to NH 16) It basically looks  
at Wildcat Mtn not much else.



On May 30, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Stan Horzepa wrote:

> FWIW, I drove up the Mt. Washington auto road with a barefoot D7 and a
> 1/4-wave mag-mount antenna on the roof of the land barge. There was  
> no APRS
> coverage the first half of the trip up the mountain, spotty  
> coverage the 3rd
> quarter, and good coverage the last quarter up the mountain.  
> Coverage was so
> good the last quarter that my packets were received by my APRS digi  
> at home
> 250 miles to the south.
>
> Stan, WA1LOU
>
>   On 5/30/06 9:01 AM, "JC" <jc at warwick.net> wrote:
>
>> I'll be hiking up the SE side of Mt. Washington to Tuckermans Ravine
>> this week and I have been trying to find out if  my D7 tracker  
>> will be
>> heard. I'm helping with an avalanche course ( and going to due some
>> skiing) and some hams at home are interested in looking over my
>> shoulder.  I've tried to contact some APRS ops in the area but  
>> probably
>> not far enough in advance. Anyone know if there is any APRS coverage
>> there? Path that I should use other than the Wide2-2? I may try  
>> and use
>> my D700 mobile as a Digi if I can figure out the details. Although I
>> don't think it's location (down in the valley) will help much. Any
>> information will be greatly appreciated by me and the watchers.
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>> KB2TZR
>>
>>
>>
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