{"id":12180,"date":"2020-08-06T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2020-08-06T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:02:10","slug":"signal-performance-at-pine-mountain-during-the-marin-century-2020-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/signal-performance-at-pine-mountain-during-the-marin-century-2020-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal performance at Pine Mountain during the Marin Century 2020 drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Michael and Rob,<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a photo of my Pine Mt. setup, and confirming the results you should have.&nbsp; I was using the mag mount on the roof (hard to see behind battery) \u2013 Diamond SG-7500, plus TM-V71 at 50 W.&nbsp; Power was&nbsp;an aging 14 Ah AGM with folding solar on the car roof.&nbsp; Without the solar and running that much power, battery voltage was pretty quickly down to 12.4V.&nbsp; Good thing it was sunny.&nbsp; Next time, I\u2019ll bring the LiFePO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12181\" src=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson.jpg\" alt=\"Pine Mountain mag mount setup by Rob Ireson K6RGI\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-100x75.jpg 100w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-450x338.jpg 450w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200801-pine-mountain-mag-mount-setup-by-rob-ireson-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Circuit merit<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\"><strong>Repeater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\"><strong>In (my signal)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\"><strong>Out (my report for repeater CM)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\">Tam<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">4+<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\">Barnabe<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">3+<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\">Bahia<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">3<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\">English Hill<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">5<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\">Sonoma<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">4*<\/td>\n<td width=\"160\">4+*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>* For Sonoma Mt., my CM-In of 4 was reported by KM6AOW.&nbsp; The repeater CM-Out of 4+ was me listening to K6SHO (Nicasio) and KI6LNB (Fairfax Pavilion).&nbsp; NCS was not as clear through the repeater, so I think Stafford Lake&nbsp;\u00e8&nbsp;Sonoma Mt. path is not great.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Rob Ireson K6RGI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Michael and Rob, Here\u2019s a photo of my Pine Mt. setup, and confirming the results you should have.&nbsp; I was using the mag mount on the roof (hard to see behind battery) \u2013 Diamond SG-7500, plus TM-V71 at 50<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/signal-performance-at-pine-mountain-during-the-marin-century-2020-drill\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[117,116,113,115],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicservice","tag-diamond-sg","tag-ireson","tag-marin-century","tag-pine-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}