[aprssig] Mt. Washington NH coverage?

[JC]

Thanks to all for the help. I was hoping for better news but Brian 
pretty much confirmed what I had thought was my worst case. I will still 
try and get a signal out but I think I will keep my focus on the course 
that I'm helping with and after that  I'm going to focus on pointing my 
skis down hill.
Thanks & 73
de KB2TZR

Brian Riley wrote:

> 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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