voxiso
Member
Why is this? When it is storming I can pick up counties sometimes 100 miles away.. When it is sunny outside I do good to pick up the county next to me. Why is that?
Makes for some awesome 2 meter long distant contacts. LOLThat can happen from tropospheric ducting, and/or tropospheric scattering... Basically, the conditions in the atmosphere can have an effect on signals. Rain can also sometimes lower interference from things like power lines, which can also help.
Nothing that a ladder,a drill and a moonless night wont cure!..Question is,How stealthy you feeling...;{)I blame it on 'atmospheric gremlins' myself. Unfortunately, the move to our main building has put an end to those gremlins and now, instead of picking up stuff further away, I'm barely picking up close by.
This reminds me of what used to happen to Bryan PD's Secondary channel when they were still on VHF. They would essentially have to abandon it every few hours when the skip from the repeater input frequency used by Burnet County Sheriff got too bad. Just FYI, Burnet County is about 150+ miles west of here! Not surprisingly, when Brazos County built its first ASTRO system back in 2005, Bryan PD Secondary was in use first.Our County is having to move the local police zone to another channel every night because a department in Va is always hitting the input to the repeater and squashing the local communications. It's a pretty good distance for them to hit on such a regular basis but I forget where it was in Va it was coming from.
Unfortunately here in my little dead spot I don't have as much luck. Now & then I get lucky but since I can't run outside antennas I don't get nearly as much as I used to previously.