[aprssig] Mt. Washington NH coverage?

[Stephen H. Smith]

brianbr at mac.com 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.
>


You could always try 30M HF APRS with a Yaesu 817 "porta-luggie" and a 
TinyTrak.   With a lightweight 30M wire-and-fishline dipole low to the 
ground, you would get NVIS  (Near Vertical Incidence Skywave) that  
would fire almost straight up out of those holes.  





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