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Down in my little corner of Alberta, a local club has a nice vhf machine about 30 miles south of town, 3600' elevation which is about 1500' above the surrounding area. This machine call really talk far, but it is hit and miss in the river valley that much of the city is sitting in. The club has another vhf repeater sitting on the top of the river ridge on the eastern outskirts of the city to cover the valley. Now there is coverage over a large chunk of southeatern alberts with a handheld on .5watts. But still not happy because some had only uhf handheld, the put up a uhf repeater on the ridge with the vhf repeater. So now we have 8 frequencies tied up when you key up any one of these machines, and all this in the name of "BECAUSE WE CAN". Oh and the joy it brings when one of the machines starts to act up and the control op is nowhere to be found!:headbang

<blockquote data-quote="Pigshanks" data-source="post: 150230" data-attributes="member: 7728"><p>Down in my little corner of Alberta, a local club has a nice vhf machine about 30 miles south of town, 3600&#039; elevation which is about 1500&#039; above the surrounding area. This machine call really talk far, but it is hit and miss in the river valley that much of the city is sitting in. The club has another vhf repeater sitting on the top of the river ridge on the eastern outskirts of the city to cover the valley. Now there is coverage over a large chunk of southeatern alberts with a handheld on .5watts. But still not happy because some had only uhf handheld, the put up a uhf repeater on the ridge with the vhf repeater. So now we have 8 frequencies tied up when you key up any one of these machines, and all this in the name of &quot;BECAUSE WE CAN&quot;. Oh and the joy it brings when one of the machines starts to act up and the control op is nowhere to be found!:headbang<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f910.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cursing:" title="Censored&nbsp; &nbsp; :cursing:"&nbsp; data-smilie="15"data-shortname=":cursing:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Pigshanks, post: 150230, member: 7728"] Down in my little corner of Alberta, a local club has a nice vhf machine about 30 miles south of town, 3600' elevation which is about 1500' above the surrounding area. This machine call really talk far, but it is hit and miss in the river valley that much of the city is sitting in. The club has another vhf repeater sitting on the top of the river ridge on the eastern outskirts of the city to cover the valley. Now there is coverage over a large chunk of southeatern alberts with a handheld on .5watts. But still not happy because some had only uhf handheld, the put up a uhf repeater on the ridge with the vhf repeater. So now we have 8 frequencies tied up when you key up any one of these machines, and all this in the name of "BECAUSE WE CAN". Oh and the joy it brings when one of the machines starts to act up and the control op is nowhere to be found!:headbang:cursing: [/QUOTE]

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