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On 07/31/2012 07:32 PM, Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:51:16 -0700 (PDT), KF6VB wrote:
>
>> My take on HF - it's unreliable. That's what makes it so much fun for
>> hams. You never know what you'll get. Maybe a few scratchy signals
> >from the next state, maybe a guy from South Africa booming in over long
>> path. It's like going fishing.
> REPLY:
> Well, HF is not 100% reliable on all frequencies, all the time, but if I want
> to
> talk from California to Idaho I can do it on 40 meters almost anytime, day or
> night with very modest power and with ZERO INFRASTRUCTURE. Let me choose which
> band and it becomes nearly 100% reliable, again with very modest power.
>
> Try that on VHF. :-)
>
> If you "never know what you'll get" it's because you don't have a lot of HF
> experience. HF is very - but not quite 100% - predictable.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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