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I am in Westford MA, FN42GN, and on a few occasions tried to tune into the Sunday night 10M net. I am clearly at the far edge of the groundwave, but on occasion I have heard a very faint signal on the SDR (~~140ft long wire antenna), nothing on my regular station (N-S oriented end-fed that tunes up well on 10M and other bands). Was wondering what type of antenna net control and others are using for this net (NVIS? or a regular dipole/vertical).
Reason I thought of this, and for this post is that I am thinking of building an NVIS, to experiment and learn, but it would be a bonus if that would enable me to join the 10M net.
BTW: Had no problem joining the 2M/70cm net last Sunday via the Hollis repeater from here. Just a lowly dual band J-pole antenna (the Ed Fong pvc special) hoisted up on a 20ft mast on my back deck.
73 de kc1ccr
bammiThanks Matt,
I will take up your kind offer and sched a test. Doing some reading around building NVIS – its spring time finally, and time to build an antenna!73 de kc1ccr
bammiHi Bambi:
The testing with Matt should find a solution for you. I live in Merrimack and usually use a G5RV for the net. It runs broadside East-West and I operate with 50 watts or less. I would guess most of us are running horizontal polarization; but a few like Matt and Russell have success with verticals.
Catch you on the air sometime.
73,
Dave N1RF
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