[OZAPRS] Monday morning VHF propagation

[Matt Thiselton]

G'day,  Not sure if you have seen this site - it shows distances covered by
packets overlayed on a map.

http://aprs.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/

Matt

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 17:03 Liz <liz at billiau.info> wrote:

> 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
> VK2XSE
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