[aprssig] RE: 6 meter APRS or meteorscater?

[Robert Bruninga]

>> Since Meteor scatter is a continuous statistical
>> process, then as long as the outgoing message has 
>> been in the TX queue for X minutes, then there is 
>> a 99% probability that it was received and injected 
>> into the internet.  Done.
>>
>> We can experiment to find out what X is.
>> One X for using a 2 dBi gain vertical and 
>> another X for using a small beam.  
>
> Huh??   How would you aim a beam at randomly 
> occurring events? 

Say if you were in New Orleans, you would point your beam
towards the highest density of potential listeners that are
about 500 to 1000 miles away.  That is the optimum range for MS.
So I'd point towards the Eastern Seaboard.  Then hammer away.
See my meteor.txt with the original APRSdos:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/meteors.html

> I'd be ready to give this a try...here in the 
> greater L.A. area,  weak-signal 6M receive is 
> totally buried under 50-100 uV of lower-sideband 
> "grunge" from channel 2 ...

You could still make a great TX site for the TX end of the
test...
Bob, WB4APR