I’m grateful for your willingness to experiment. “The cheerleader in the kitchen”, right kind of effect (one’s wife; to reference another thread).
As I don’t know what will transpire between here and the end . . I don’t have to have a set formula is dawning realization.
This RV Park project will move along slowly (months to get 4-5?) as it comes down to the other persons interest (or that of a couple). What antenna works well at one location may need to be something else at another. Camper-mounted, tree-hung, free-standing, etc.
I much appreciate the addition.
What can be stowed away for travel seems first requirement (met above), performs well (thanks for graph), and parts re-purposed will appeal to some at this locale.
Thanks. It’s a nice Christmas gift towards the end of a small & unrelated group of people being able to talk at a distance without intermediary.
As a side note, the first vehicle outfitted (re-fitted with same gear) consisted of same 2’ antenna + mount relocated to roof with “good coax”, and trusty ol’ truck driver special 40-channel given clean power & new interior mount.
Wouldn’t get a mile previously. I left the park today and from a GPS-corrected air mile distant high ridge (relative; river valley) at 4.1-miles we could converse. Barely. On a quiet channel. Mid-day, no Skip. (Did quite well up to 2.0-miles).
I don’t think that coincidence.
Was buried under Skip yesterday.
So “we” did it. “We” may be the hardest bridge to cross in this:
Found my big truck GPS a couple of days ago. Correlated distances against phone to landmarks everyone already knows (One road in/out).
This neighbor passed me as we were both heading home two days ago and this re-lit his spark (truck driver also, but sidelined by injury; “spare cash” non-existent) as I pulled over to check his 1-mile and 2-mile.
Today I knocked on his door and offered the test. He didn’t look good. Needless to say both he and I are glad he took it on himself to participate.
Now there’s a man besides myself can talk effectively in immediate environs (where the extant rig of his was “made good” in bonding hood & cleaning vehicle grounds) as there’s a second test station for whomever is the third person to hear us both.
Now I know why I’ve mentally insisted to myself that my Lincoln 2 have it’s’ associated Liberty wireless mic in my pickup. All I could foresee was truckstop parking lot. Seeing is believing versus having to walk, bike or drive around this place when a phone isn’t convenient or no one answers — brush-clearing as it continues, someone fishing the river, a quick recommendation of a supplier for X — if but one vehicle nearby has a radio and several homes are also on the air.
“Group Chat” is a turn-off for some.
Can hear whats in their voice is another thing.
From the RR end — the kindness of strangers — the value of a shared interest forum made visible, real, where the How To man-by-separate-man was just a starting point.
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