Baffled by the range claims

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

So when was the last time you were sitting on Laurel Run Road in Bear Creek Pennsylvania listening to a driver in a Freightliner Cascadia at mile marker 208 on 81? If you've never been on Laurel Run Road trying to listen to a Freightliner Cascadia traveling Northbound on Interstate 81 how would you be in a position to arrive at any sort of logical conclusion? It's okay for you to have a religious belief that there's nothing special going on but I prefer to stick with the facts. I deliberately showed my physical location as a challenge to anyone to park in that exact location and listen to a Freightliner Cascadia traveling northbound on 81 and I'd be willing to bet money they will not be able to hear that Freightliner Cascadia at mile marker 208 from that location. You could easily replicate that scenario with a couple cars using amplifiers. In the last 14 years that I've lived in that area I've never heard a single truck driver or a single person in a car transmit from that location. However, I've heard multiple people tell me that they've heard me as they were passing that mile marker but it took them 30 minutes of travel to get closer to me before I could hear them.

 

Gulp. The Laurel Run Road distance test? You mean the standard by which all tx/rx is measured? Let me fall prostrate in awe about a random location I’ve never heard of being verified by random people I’ve never met who may or may not exist. So scientific.

When was the last time you lost a signal in less than 10 miles, let’s say Hazleton and McAdoo? Towns 6 mles apart?

Legend has it that no one has ever transmitted from Laurel Run. Well, there was this one man, but the govt kidnapped him and used his HF knowledge to develop the HAARP Project. They say he escaped and sits at truck stops asking people what kind of radio they are talking on.

 

Yawn.


My 10-4 is bigger than your 10-4.

 

Get some rest. Fatigued driving is serious, even in a Prius.

 

crap only if you knew how **** tired I am today.

 

You made my point for me. Simply because you were sitting in Flagstaff Arizona talking to somebody 60 miles east has no relevance to the fact that I lost contact with Craig at a shorter distance distance in Pennsylvania with mountains in between us. You failed to make an argument.

It happens quite often actually. When there is a 1500 foot Mountain 10 ft from my front bumper and there's another guy on the other side of that 1500 foot Mountain it's going to be very difficult to talk to the guy with a 1500 foot mountain in between us. However if I drive 10 miles away from that 1500 foot Mountain it becomes much easier to talk to the other side of that 1500 foot Mountain due to the angle of radiation and if you had half a brain you would understand that.

 

The guy who says he got tired of burning his stuff up tells someone they have half a brain. LOL.

 

I never had a habit of burning stuff up. You must be talking about bored silly who keeps blowing up amplifiers because he gets his worked on by Chris Holland in Ontario California. You can't compare apples to oranges. If you want to brag about how great your stuff is doing you need to do it under comparable test conditions. If I wanted to be a dick I could say your radio sucks because when I talked to Harrisburg Pennsylvania from Drums Pennsylvania that's a much greater distance than the 60 miles you were talking about. It has no relevance because it wasn't under the same conditions you talked 60 miles so I never made the comparison.

 

Don't really care about you talking anywhere in Pa. I never go there. 60 miles is nothing to brag about either.

 

You made a generalization that's impossible to make. 60 miles under which conditions? You conveniently omitted conditions. 60 miles across flat ground from base station to base station? That should be pretty easy to do. Without including all the variables it would be impossible to make a statement of any kind whatsoever. 30 miles from tractor to tractor across flat ground is generally the best most people are ever going to experience unless amplifiers are involved. And that's if both people have their ducks in a row. I remember the one time I got a 60-mile bear report I was traveling eastbound on Interstate 40 at mile marker 221 in New Mexico and I heard a guy say back it down eastbound we're coming to a stop at the 281 and if you knew anything about geography you would understand that mile marker 281 it's probably thousands of feet higher in altitude than where I was.