Quote Originally Posted by O2HeN2 View Post
I'm not going to disagree with you, but as a datapoint that surprised me, I just tried my ancient Motorola TalkAbout 250s* from one side of I25 to the other (shallow valley, line of sight) and they worked at 3.5 miles!

Yhea, put them in a cityscape and you'd be lucky to get them to go 1000 feet.

I was checking them out to see if they'd work from one end of Pueblo Reservoir to the other and it looks like they might.

O2

* Can't find any FCC power data on them, but given the era, they're probably 0.2 Watts.

Looks to be spec'd at .5W.