Looking at the areas on the US map that need coverage, and knowing there are some that are about to come on line, I've been talking with a friend who lives in Jackson, WY, near the base of the Tetons to the west a few miles, with Yellowstone north 60 miles or so, and the Absaroka and Wind River ranges to the East and South.
He's not eager to put a lot of time, energy and money into a project that will be, by the very nature of his location surrounded by so much granite, doomed to be a poor class station.
I think these frequencies do ground wave just fine, and that mountains are great for screening out cell signals, VHF mobile radio signals etc, but am I right in encouraging him to have a go at it to put a station up that has peaks thousands of feet higher than he is, so close? They don't call it a 'hole' for nothing. Well, actually a hole in that parlance is a flat, relatively foot hill free area, and indeed it is, as anyone would know if they've driven through there.
Dale