What kind of Local distance? 10/11 meters.

[T23]

What kind of local distance are you all getting out of your 10/11 meter stations? Without atmospheric conditions and such.

And if you could gives us a breif rundown on you antenna type, hight and wattage, mode of operation, and relative reliability.

*For example*: "I am using a cobra 148 and a TS-250 at 225 watts pep on LSB, on a 40 foot tower, and I can talk to such and such station 25 miles away with ( insert relative s meter reading here)."

T23

 

[RatsoW8]

That's about right. Terrain plays a role as well. It's flat to rolling hills where I am in MI and I can talk on 10 meters with the guys about 35 miles south of me on a Kenwood TS-140S running 100 watts on SSB. Imax 2k vertical with the base at 15 feet.

 

[reddog45]

I run a kenwood 820 on 11 meter Ssb with 250 watts and can get about a 75 mile range right now with an Antron 99 at 35 feet.

 

[binrat]

When I had my IC707, I was talking anywhere from 90-100 miles using a modified old radio shack 5/8 wave vert that was 52' to the base. I am high on for the area as well.

 

[mechanic]

On 11 meters I can easily reach out 35 to 45 miles, at that point it seems to drop off rapidly. I run a stock radio, 2510 or AR-3500 (30 watts), SSB into a horizontal beam at 45 feet ( 15 meters). Conditions play a big part and since I live near the Great Lakes there can be temperature inversions and at times lots of moisture.... all play a part in how far I can reach. I regularly check into a net on 39 LSB on Sundays, distance is 90 miles South.

Channel 39 LSB & Channel 21


With ten meters it is different as the wavelength is shorter so the distance is less but not by a whole lot. Of course I can use way more power and that helps but you can only work what you hear! Now on ten meters CW I can easily work far more distance stations as my rig can "pull" out narrow band CW stations. The distance with CW is about 130 to 200 miles on good ground wave.
One time on two meters I keyed a repeater in Chicago and made contact, this is about 350 miles from me along a temperature front with Lake Michigan..... but then again this topic was about 11 and 10 meters! <can not stand it>

mechanic

 

[Grogan]

Cobra 29 Imax 2000 at 35 ft' Power mic 30 miles, tops
SSB 200 watts 1000's of miles...conditions permitting. Mobil 32.00 dolar radio wilson 1000 Pro 510XL stock, good day 5 miles quiet at night 15 miles with good reports Hopes this helps. and interesting on others reports

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

it Depends..

Although i Get out rather well.
At times my getting out is Limited due to all the traffic.
Regardless though say after 10Pm though..

I Easily get out 40-80 miles (with no skip of any sort)
I am Helped though in Part..
Due to being surrounded by water on 3 sides.
As well as base of antenna at height of 52 ft
Antenna is Interceptor I-10K
Radio is either 706MKIIG or IC-7000
Uslally on 38-40 LSB

With skip.. well the world is a stage

 

[hayseed]

Ranger 2970 N2
Wilson 5k

Mobile to Mobile 8-25 miles depending on conditions
Mobile to Base so far 45 miles during the day is the best I have done

 

[Brake Weight]

20-30 miles at night on stock 11m mobile and a 5' Stik.

 

[dxhound]

I am using a kenwood ts 480hx (220 watts peak ) and a maco 5/8 vertical at 43 feet. on SSB I talk about 150 miles with some regularity. For everyday converstations with some reading on the S meter, about 60-75 miles.

 

[kd-5-bgt]

I had a Siltronix 1011D on a 4 element beam at 40 feet I could make 50 to 75 miles on a regular basis on SSB,that was on 11 meter ...on occasion I could make just over 100 miles...

havent had much of a chance to play on 10 meters,but I think 10 would act alot like 11 on avarage

 

[VA3ES]

Hy-gain Super Penetrator 500 at 45'. AM: 15W carrier: about 50 miles, minimum. SSB, 50W: about 75 miles, with 100W SSB: about ~90 miles. with an S3 signal. Varies over 24 hrs due to diurnal propagation. Better at night due to less solar and man-made noise.

Tried running 500W AM carrier, and got over 100 miles range, with anywhere from S7 to S9+ at the other end.

All power levels measured with a Bird 43. Receiver S-meter calibration, unknown.

 

[Turbo T]

I used to run a Cobra 148 with a 102 whip and could get anywhere from 10 to 14 miles on 4 watts of power, on AM.

On sideband I never could find anyone to talk to locally so I never did find out how far I could talk on SSB.

Then I switched over to a Cobra 21 (older model of the Cobra 25) and a Wilson 1000 man mount dead middle of the roof....I could talk for 8-10 miles on 4 watts of power.

Both times I never had any extra power, just the 4 watts the radio was pushing out. As they say, it's all in your antenna.

As for a base station, I had a Uniden Washington and a Shakespeare big stick that I could talk at least 20 miles, I could only get the feed point 15 ft up. The antenna was only 17 ft tall. Again this was barefoot, no amp.

In all installs, I had an SWR of 1.5:1 or lower.

 

[DJboutit]

I in my mobile with about 400w 8 to 15 miles normally if am talking with someone running power 35 miles and every once in awhile when there a very tiny bit of dx 50 to 55 miles

 

[Robb]

55 miles = DX?