Later sections will show how various stations look at my end, but this section is designed to show how my pictures fare at other locations.

This image, reduced in size to speed loading, is one of my Fax480 images as received by W8BYA. The results are quite remarkable for 6 watts over a 124-mile path and represent a tribute to his station capabilities.

Once you can send even very noisey pictures over a particular path, relatively modest improvements at the RF end can yield a major improvement. Here is a Scottie 1 image from my station as received by W8BYA (124 mi./200 km) when the transverter was used to drive a Mirage "brick" to 100 watts output.

The relative improvement with Fax480 is even more obvious! In both cases I was still using the stacked M2 Halos, so it looks like I have arrived at a practical performance standard at the transmitting end.

All the previous discussion has been based on "normal" or even sub-optimal band conditions. With even modest tropo enhancement, things get better fast. Here is my 5 watt signal as received by Gedas (W8BYA) under good band conditions!

Lower power levels can sometimes be used more effectively with digital image transmission. This is one of my 10-watt digital transmissions as received by W8BYA. Digital tends to be "all or nothing" and so far my success rate over this path has averaged 50%. As you can see, when it works it is a fine option, especially if the image doesn't have too many compression artifacts.