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When I was wheeling on Big Bear in California we had been following each other and we were in the last Jeep, the last three vehicles got stuck behind one in the group who broke down. There was 27 of us on the trail. We had a Cobra 29 with a Palomar 250. By the time we tried to contact the other people in the group they were out of range, we were on the west side of the mountain, the others must have been on the east side of the mountain? We could not get a hold of them.

Finally they sent someone back from the lead group to find us. I was right, they were on the direct opposite side of the mountain.

From that point on we installed a 2 meter radio, I had a Yaesu FT-2200

It worked quite well, but it was not flawless. That damn mountain can block alot of signal, no matter what type radio you use. Mountains are funny that way :tongue:

It is to bad that it is illegal to use the ham radio like the 706 and 857 style radios on cb as well, you could get the best of both worlds with only 1 radio.

<blockquote data-quote="Happy_Hamer" data-source="post: 140342" data-attributes="member: 5">When I was wheeling on Big Bear in California we had been following each other and we were in the last Jeep, the last three vehicles got stuck behind one in the group who broke down. There was 27 of us on the trail. We had a Cobra 29 with a Palomar 250. By the time we tried to contact the other people in the group they were out of range, we were on the west side of the mountain, the others must have been on the east side of the mountain? We could not get a hold of them. Finally they sent someone back from the lead group to find us. I was right, they were on the direct opposite side of the mountain.From that point on we installed a 2 meter radio, I had a Yaesu FT-2200It worked quite well, but it was not flawless. That damn mountain can block alot of signal, no matter what type radio you use. Mountains are funny that way :tongue:It is to bad that it is illegal to use the ham radio like the 706 and 857 style radios on cb as well, you could get the best of both worlds with only 1 radio. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":wink:" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; :wink:"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=":wink:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Happy_Hamer, post: 140342, member: 5"] When I was wheeling on Big Bear in California we had been following each other and we were in the last Jeep, the last three vehicles got stuck behind one in the group who broke down. There was 27 of us on the trail. We had a Cobra 29 with a Palomar 250. By the time we tried to contact the other people in the group they were out of range, we were on the west side of the mountain, the others must have been on the east side of the mountain? We could not get a hold of them. Finally they sent someone back from the lead group to find us. I was right, they were on the direct opposite side of the mountain. From that point on we installed a 2 meter radio, I had a Yaesu FT-2200 It worked quite well, but it was not flawless. That damn mountain can block alot of signal, no matter what type radio you use. Mountains are funny that way :tongue: It is to bad that it is illegal to use the ham radio like the 706 and 857 style radios on cb as well, you could get the best of both worlds with only 1 radio. :wink: [/QUOTE]

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