[OZAPRS] How much power do you use while HF mobile?

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There is 2m APRS but Nowra generally not too bad for HF, Murphy must be hard at work 

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Ian Bennett" <ibennett at tpg.com.au>
Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 21:38
Subject: [OZAPRS] How much power do you use while HF mobile?
To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>

Nowra sounds like Uluru; absolute black hole for RF. No APRS, no VKS737, no 
Amateur HF bands either.
Compare that with Dalhousie Springs; probably the best RF site I've come 
across thus far :-)

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:27:47 Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> True I think - having pulled into Nowra, and (temporarily) fixed my
> antenna, with it lightly raining, and very overcast, I can't get a packet
> out even on 100W!  I even sat there for five mins turning the OT1+ on and
> off every 30 seconds, so it would keep sending posit packets, but not a
> brass razoo ended up on the APRS network!
>
> --DG
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