voxiso
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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?
That 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.
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.
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.