Been a while Scrappers! Hope ya'll still check in on these forums and perhaps give a big ol' kick in the butt to get it alive again.
Anyway, a little backstory here: I use to live in various areas of San Diego and got a couple good nights where I could get a Yagi to have the 2M hit your repeater waaay up there. I had a minor email exchange with KK6HDU after an AmandaNET about hitting the repeater but I kinda just dropped the conversation (not wanting to bug just one person). I only made 2 good quick contacts from the city then I moved out to the mountains. This is where I'm confused and could use some elmers.
I'm KK6MLG, my address is still correct on the license if you want to google map it for reference, and I'm at 2950ft of elevation. That thought sure as hell I'd toss that 2M yagi up 20ft and I'd just nail the repeater up here...nope.
I don't have a rotator so I'm just aiming, try, adjust, try again, repeat. My only 2M radios are Icom, IC-v8000 (75W max on 2M) and IC-7000 (50W max on 2M), both mobile but trying as base stations till I get all the Jeep running again. When in the city I couldn't always get a transmit but could receive very well. Here, neither.
So in a nut shell, do you see something obviously wrong here as to why I could reach the repeater in the very least at 50ft of elevation and now can't on a mountain South of Alpine? I'm a lowly Tech and still studying antenna and all that mysterious stuff that I really should actually know for General and not just memorize answers to pass a test. 6 Meter club thinks I should just hit you guys but I'm having no luck and something I am ignorant about is stopping me. Being in the boonies on a fireroad with no other HAMs out here has no one really enthusiastic to come out and do a survey and physically help me out. So I ask the guys and gals that made me want to become a HAM...Gun Toting, freedom loving, BBQ pitting, BurningHAM enjoying melonfarmers!
Being that the forum is slow, I'll check back in probably weekly to check for any replies at all. I'm not just asking a question and not coming back so be patient with me please; I'm an asshole but not a jerk! I'd really like to get with ya'll and shoot the breeze instead of spamming the forums from an unknown and listening on broadcastify. 73's
Anyway, a little backstory here: I use to live in various areas of San Diego and got a couple good nights where I could get a Yagi to have the 2M hit your repeater waaay up there. I had a minor email exchange with KK6HDU after an AmandaNET about hitting the repeater but I kinda just dropped the conversation (not wanting to bug just one person). I only made 2 good quick contacts from the city then I moved out to the mountains. This is where I'm confused and could use some elmers.
I'm KK6MLG, my address is still correct on the license if you want to google map it for reference, and I'm at 2950ft of elevation. That thought sure as hell I'd toss that 2M yagi up 20ft and I'd just nail the repeater up here...nope.
I don't have a rotator so I'm just aiming, try, adjust, try again, repeat. My only 2M radios are Icom, IC-v8000 (75W max on 2M) and IC-7000 (50W max on 2M), both mobile but trying as base stations till I get all the Jeep running again. When in the city I couldn't always get a transmit but could receive very well. Here, neither.
So in a nut shell, do you see something obviously wrong here as to why I could reach the repeater in the very least at 50ft of elevation and now can't on a mountain South of Alpine? I'm a lowly Tech and still studying antenna and all that mysterious stuff that I really should actually know for General and not just memorize answers to pass a test. 6 Meter club thinks I should just hit you guys but I'm having no luck and something I am ignorant about is stopping me. Being in the boonies on a fireroad with no other HAMs out here has no one really enthusiastic to come out and do a survey and physically help me out. So I ask the guys and gals that made me want to become a HAM...Gun Toting, freedom loving, BBQ pitting, BurningHAM enjoying melonfarmers!
Being that the forum is slow, I'll check back in probably weekly to check for any replies at all. I'm not just asking a question and not coming back so be patient with me please; I'm an asshole but not a jerk! I'd really like to get with ya'll and shoot the breeze instead of spamming the forums from an unknown and listening on broadcastify. 73's