You will laugh at this but, I have so little local traffic and, my wife is far too busy to bother helping do radio checks so,,, since I was getting concerned about inverted V local traffic i convinced myself I needed to test it myself.
I took my 2Watt Walkie Talkie (rated at 4 Watts but tested at 2watts) ,, put it on a car antenna... Home CB attached to inverted V in attic ,,, TWO cell phones with active call between them,, one laying in front of home CB,, The other in car with me.
- I drove approx 2.5 Miles / 4 KMs (measured in advance as the crow flies)
- Spoke on the walkie Talkie (attached to K30 antenna) and listened on Cell phone. (I was not driving while conducting the test but, I could have used bluetooth to play Cell call over car speakers)
I didnt even check any other distances. Local reception on inverted V seemed good. I was impressed 2 Watts did that well on a K30 in the suburbs (I was behind a building doing this test, not in a clearing).
Difficult test to reverse in order to test transmission of inverted V but, if it can hear a weaker radio from smaller antenna, I am sure the V can talk to it also.
One other note. If the inverted V is at all directional, I was on the weak side of that directional preference when doing this test.
