[OZAPRS] Monday morning VHF propagation

[Liz]

QTR Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:17:57 +1030 Matthew Cook QTC

> Wow !   That packet from VK6  came through VK5 on it's way across the
> country.
> 
> I thought it was neat we heard VK7 from time to time, that takes the
> cake & biscuit !
> 
> 73
> 
> Matthew
> VK5ZM
> 
> On 13 March 2018 at 16:12, Liz <liz at billiau.info> wrote:
> 
> > I was away from home, and checked my telemetry through aprs.fi to
> > see that all was working. I saw a very big number of dropped
> > packets, and had a trawl through the logs.
> >
> > VK2, VK3, VK4, VK5, VK7, even packets from VK6 made it to my
> > digipeater. 2018-03-11 17:40:47.239 VK2XSE-1  R
> > VK6RAL-3>APN383,VK5RAC-1*,VK5RSE-1*,WIDE2*:!3501.46S/11753.67E#PHG5530/
> > SEG - www.hamradio.org.au


Albany to Tumby Bay to Millicent is over water which is often noted to
give long distance VHF transmission.
For that to couple with the conditions which give long distance VHF
transmission over land to go from Millicent to Griffith is really quite
unusual.


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Liz
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