[450] N1UJS repeater lists....

Bob n1ujs at toast.net
Thu Jun 30 19:12:20 EDT 2011


Thanks George.  Looking forward to your input.

By the way, have you heard anything from KA1A?  I haven't talked to him in
weeks, and he usually checks in with me at least on Sundays.....is he not
well again?
I'm a little worried.....

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, George Andrews <gandrews at ntplx.net> wrote:

> **
> Bob,
>
> As always a great piece of work and a service to all!
>
> I have not had much radio time of late. Will be adding my bit to your
> database as soon as possible. Would like to take a trip up to Dennis Hill to
> check that location, maybe with HT only.
>
> George
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bob <n1ujs at toast.net>
> *To:* 144.450 Mailing List <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:42 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [450] N1UJS repeater lists....
>
> Further, I imagine Mt. Equinox would be a peice of cake for you.....I know
> I used to talk to Krumville Bob on it while riding around up in
> Vermont.....he had a strong reliable shot from his mountain South of you.
> Wouldn't that be humorous.....using a Vermont machine to talk to NY....
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:33 AM, WRIP-FM Studio <wrip at mhcable.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Bob -
>>
>> Surprised (and pleased) you can hit Cobleskill.  Outside of the Albany
>> machines, Cobleskill may very well knife-edge its way into this mountain
>> valley (I'm at ~1300ft ASL, with mountains surrounding about 2/3 of town and
>> a few "notches" to possibly blast out of.).  If the Albany repeaters are
>> located up in the Helderbergs to the south and west of Albany, they're well
>> shadowed to here. Troy(let) is a better, but only possible shot.
>>
>> Jay/UJ..T
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Bob <n1ujs at toast.net>
>> *To:* 144.450 Mailing List <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:04 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [450] N1UJS repeater lists....
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Printed it out today in portrait format, fit to size, and it came out
>> nicely.  Much easier to use and read in printed form.
>>
>> I'm really curious what Chris (Kb1rxa) and Vinnie's results will be.  I
>> fully expect them to exceed the boundaries of my footprint.  Yours and
>> Woody's would be interesting as well.
>>
>> No comment from George....unusual...
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>wrote:
>>
>>> good work ol' chap
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Leslie <partybug at charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A lot of super hard work and concentration went into this and I think it
>>>> is excellent!  And organized...........
>>>>
>>>> Leslie Busino
>>>>
>>>> Always be the difference with kindness of heart.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Bob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:36 PM, WRIP-FM Studio <wrip at mhcable.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>> Just excellent
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> *From:* Bob <n1ujs at toast.net>
>>>>>> *To:* 144.450 Mailing List <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
>>>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:05 PM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Subject:* [450] N1UJS repeater lists....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good Evening Gentlemen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After a ridiculously long time and even more ridiculous amount of
>>>>>> effort,
>>>>>> here are the results.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of you already saw the 222 and 50 mhz lists, and now the 144 mhz
>>>>>> list
>>>>>> is done....more or less.  I still have to go back and fill in some
>>>>>> data, as
>>>>>> I encountered unstable conditions and a variety of other issues (like
>>>>>> machines at 30 over and no PL on clogging a frequency where I needed
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> collect info on weaker machines) which left a few gaps.  None the less
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> are a whopping 250 entries!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Essentially, these lists represent every possible machine on every
>>>>>> possible
>>>>>> "pair" that can be reached from my station under "flat" conditions (no
>>>>>> enhancement, no degradation) with all the leaves on the trees.
>>>>>> Obviously
>>>>>> leaf-less conditions would show better results, as would late
>>>>>> night/early
>>>>>> morning tests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Test radio was the IC706MKIIG, and was done both "normal" (internal
>>>>>> preamp
>>>>>> on) represented by the first number, and "enhanced" (internal amp OFF,
>>>>>> external amp ON) represented by the second number.  Obviously, for
>>>>>> comparison purposes, for those of you without an external amp and a
>>>>>> normal
>>>>>> radio, compare your results to the first number.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting to me was how well the little stick held it's own against
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> pair of yagis.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My next step is to plot the signal points on a map (for each band),
>>>>>> connect
>>>>>> all like signal level dots, and get a visual representation of my
>>>>>> signal
>>>>>> footprint, it's shape and intensity.  It will be interesting to note
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> differences between the bands.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay, with no further ado, here is the link:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://spreadsheets.google.**com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=**
>>>>>> CIKIvMkE&hl=en&key=**twveK2CDFDJaC10oL9bHa4g&rm=**
>>>>>> full&authkey=CIKIvMkE#gid=1<https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CIKIvMkE&hl=en&key=twveK2CDFDJaC10oL9bHa4g&rm=full&authkey=CIKIvMkE#gid=1>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope this collection of data will be usefull to you all......
>>>>>>
>>>>>> N1UJS Bob
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