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Hey guys! My name is dustin. I have had my gmrs license for a while but mostly been using it around here in san diego for off road trails and stuff... ive been pretty basic with it... i am an avioncs tech so im used to shipboard and aircraft comms... recently ive heard of the repeater stuff... i dont know much about it but would love to learn more and its potential.im san diego but travel EVERYWHERE. i would love to beable to learn about the repeaters and use them throughout the us... i am always in arkansas and tn. I wanna know is it possble to be able to hook up with a repeater in all the locations for safety reason since my wife and i and our kids are always hiking and camping... "thinking ahead sorta say"... maybe even make a few friends along the way! Let me know... any info would be awesome. Thank u guys!

Using those basic line of sight calculations is rather useless for coloroado as the terrain comes into play. I actually was looking at a site that though it was the highest spot for miles, it was in a valley an hour or so south of the OP and would cover the county entirely, but only 10 miles west, 10 miles east, and 15 north due to mountains and the gorge the Arkansas River cut its way through. The basic calculations work well in this kind of terrain. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160320/448d567f980191559ddc4e964f70b5ed.jpg That grain elevator is 8 miles away and roughly 200 feet tall. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm going to be using these links for sure! Thank you for all the valuable information!

Haha...think I have my regular forum account set up. The RG213 is in the garage and now waiting for the new antenna to arrive. I'll move this project over to the regular sections when I start the install and see what can of performance changes I can get. Dennis WQVQ594

If the repeater is wide band, you will want to work it with wideband, likewise you will get the best performance from your radios in wideband. GMRS is not required to use narrow, and range is diminished with it as well.