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   From: brian@nospam.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <6jJqdlBLrdBZFwjm@brattleho.plus.com>, Ian Jackson   
    writes   
   >In message <94eb2c06c01c216203054e60dd8f@google.com>, Southgate Amateur   
   >Radio News RSS Feed  writes   
   >Under its new Chair Ajit Pai, the FCC is seeking to modernize radio   
   >regulations and is scrapping pointless rules like the 250 km (155.3   
   >mile) restriction on Citizen Band Radio contacts."   
   >   
   >It's that additional one third of a mile makes all the difference. I   
   >wonder if it is at the TX end or the RX end?   
   >   
   >Also, I believe that some people have difficulty in getting even   
   >quarter of a mile.   
      
   CB  vehicle mounted whips have quite a  low radiation angle ~ 20deg, so   
   someone on another vehicle 1/4 mile away might get  a very weak signal.   
      
   High angle is good for working skip of course.   
      
   A 5/8 lambda works better, but for 27MHz on a vehicle is being silly.   
      
      
   Loading coils can be quite lossy too.   
      
      
      
   All the high numbers and 10-10 .   
      
   Brian   
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