Re: [amsat-bb] I have an idea. Please read

[Roy Welch <rdwelch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That is at 2 meters probably with some diffraction of the signal.  When you
move that frequency to 70cm I don't think you will see that kind of range. 
I have worked 250 miles from 12,000 ft with a 2 watt HT on a rubber ducky
antenna from inside the cabin, but again it was on 2 meters.

"John K. Peterson" wrote:
> 
>      If the foot print is only 300 miles at 100,000 feet as you say, then
> how is possible that I can work a friend air Mobile , simplex, on 2M,
> coming out of Houston Hobby airfield  (nearly 600 miles away) when he
> hits 20,000 feet in a  Saber Liner?   Kinda make ya wonder doesn't it.
> We do this routinely.
>                                                  "73"
>                                                         John
>                                                             Kg5za
> In The Twinkling of a star
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