Simply Simplex
On April 29th I celebrated 25 years in ham radio! So I have doing a series of blog entries to celebrate the achievement! I will highlight a few accomplishments. It happened again, I made a simplex contact from about 80 miles away. Not exactly a record but still pretty decent. This isn't my first major contact but every simplex contact is special. It's a sign my radio and antenna are receiving, and more importantly transmitting properly. Ever since I got my license twenty five years ago, I have been fascinated with simplex more than repeaters. For those who don't know the difference between a repeater is a machine usually in a high building or other structure that receives on one frequency and transmits on another. With simplex it's just one frequency, direct from radio to radio line of site. There are atmospheric conditions that can increase the distanced, that's call ducting and there's a map on the Internet that shows the conditi...