[MNAPRS] APRS digipeater to far away?

[Doug Reed]

I finally called up your QTH on Google maps. It looks like you need to 
look NNW for the direct shot to the Moundsview WIDE. A beam might pick 
up enough signal from a bounce but it would be a long shot compared to 
the direct path.

You can also try beaming SE toward Hastings, SSW toward Faribault or S 
toward Cannon Falls & Rochester and see if you can hear anyone from 
farther south. Essentially, if you try the beam approach, just point it 
where you can and see what happens.... The Kingston WIDE has a pretty 
good signal at my home but they would be NW from your location and a lot 
farther away, plus being through the Minneapolis noise....

www.wa5vjb.com
I just tried my new link to the WA5VJB antenna articles and it is down. 
I did find a copy at the old site I had book marked.
http://www.clarc.org/ArticleRepo/uhf2.pdf

Good luck.

73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.

Jerry W wrote:
> OK Doug,
> 
> Well I am not quite "in a hole" here.  The building sits on the edge
> of the bluff about 75 feet above the river bottom.  I am actually four
> stories above the street level as part of the building is below the
> first tear of the bluff.  If I walk to to the other side of the
> building on the east side and can see the Mining building as a clear
> shot and know that is why I hear the 010 so good. West direction is
> the problem, church roof, trees and terrain rising as one goes west.
> 
> Have tried to get moved to thirteenth floor, north or west side, but
> the HRA will not move any one except for health reasons to a wheel
> chair apartment and all those are on the fourth floor.
> 
> I will look into the beam idea.  Have the same problem getting into
> the SPRC repeater at St Thomas on Summit Ave.  But from the small
> outside balcony on thirteen , west side, (nice view up there!), I can
> get into the SPRC repeater with my 5 watt HT.
> 
> Jerry  - K0HZI
>