[Dstar] RE: Dstar Digest, Vol 22, Issue 2

[Tony Langdon]

At 05:14 PM 6/8/2009, you wrote:
>Patrick,
>         Thanks for your input. Now I'm just waiting for the poison pen
>letters to start coming out. Even VK5ZEA that runs the VK5REX there in Port
>Lincoln (the other independent D-Star repeater) has a query on the distance
>that VK3RWW is getting a distance of 200 kilometers  from Sheperaton which
>is about half way to Sydney. I didn't send this to you but should have. See
>attached. It's a reply to James there in Sydney. It's just about VK2RWN but
>just about the same for others as well.

John, FYI, Mt Wombat is 150km from Melbourne, around 10km E of the 
Hume Highway.  It would be a little less as the crow flies, of 
course.  The 150km figure is Melbourne to Euroa, and Mt Wombat is 
around 10km E of Euroa.

Melbourne - Sydney is around 880km by road, or around 750 in a 
straight line.  Taking the best case report of 200km for VK3RWW, and 
assuming that distance is an accurate figure, that's still around 
400km short of Sydney (going as the crow flies).  Not half way, more 
like 1/3 of the way from the site.  The first 150km or more is fairly 
flat west of the mountains, and the 2m FM repeater at Mt Wombat has 
always had superb coverage.

In any case, 150-200km mobile range is a superb result.

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