800 or 900 mHz Skip

[bezking]

Is this simply impossible? Or just rare?

 

[wrr20891]

I've heard ducting signals on 800 MHz several times, usually during the spring and fall when you get Temperature Inversions. Noticed a lot last spring, haven't heard any yet this fall. It's been a hot fall so far.

 

[hoser147]

Nope your not hearing things lol Ive caught it coming thru before too. Several times. But would like to hear what the Radio Gurus have to say if it is related to the atmosphere or what??.............Hoser

 

[BaLa]

I picked up an 800mhz P25 Trunking system from AR in MO (about 300 miles away) last summer.

 

[mbstone99]

800Mhz Skip

I've heard ducting signals on 800 MHz several times, usually during the spring and fall when you get Temperature Inversions. Noticed a lot last spring, haven't heard any yet this fall. It's been a hot fall so far.

Not impossible.. I have heard 800 Mhz skip from around 150 miles away.. it should start to get interesting now that it's starting to cool off. It finally started to really cool down here just this week.. about time too.

Matt

 

[k9rzz]

At 800 mhz it's not "skip" as in E skip or F skip (look it up), it's tropo, ducting, or simply enhancement of signals (not all the same either).

Wikipedia has a nice writeup on the various modes by which signals can be heard a long way away:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV/FM_DX

Either way, it's fun!