Imagine you’re driving down the road in your local backwoods farmland. Radios on windows are down and you’re enjoying the drive. You are on blacktop highway and other than a fence beside the road it’s open and clear of obstructions.
You hear a station so you get the idea you’ll hit him up. His signal is hi then lo. You stop the car and listen. He’s a 3-5. You roll forward 5 feet and he’s a 5-9. You back up 7 feet he’s a 5-9. Terrain has not changed. Orientation of the vehicle hasn’t changed. Sweet spots.
Now explain how sweet spots work. It’s not picket fencing or fading. Maybe it’s a lump of coal you’re parked over increasing the ground plane maybe its magnetic field in a specific spot. But it’s a hot spot. And it’s always in that one location. Every day every time. So it’s not atmospheric.
What is it and could you measure it so you could find places like that intentionally??
Don’t laugh
You hear a station so you get the idea you’ll hit him up. His signal is hi then lo. You stop the car and listen. He’s a 3-5. You roll forward 5 feet and he’s a 5-9. You back up 7 feet he’s a 5-9. Terrain has not changed. Orientation of the vehicle hasn’t changed. Sweet spots.
Now explain how sweet spots work. It’s not picket fencing or fading. Maybe it’s a lump of coal you’re parked over increasing the ground plane maybe its magnetic field in a specific spot. But it’s a hot spot. And it’s always in that one location. Every day every time. So it’s not atmospheric.
What is it and could you measure it so you could find places like that intentionally??
Don’t laugh
