Amateur radio repeaters?

[chriscraft67]

Don't know if there are any hams on this group but I thought I'd give it a try. Leaving Norwich, CT on July 23 for Montauk. I'd assume not much going on on 2 meters out there. Leaving Montauk on July 25 for Block Island. We'll be there for five days. Possible to hit a mainland machine with my five-watt 2-meter HT?

Leaving BI on July 29 for the Watch Hill Passage-Fishers Island Sound-New London ride back home.

Would love to chat with any boat folks into amateur radio.

Bill
KB1ULU

Bill

 

[Radioactive]

VHF range:

( 1.2 x ( square root of your antenna height, in feet ) ) plus ( 1.2 x ( square root of the other antenna height, in feet ) ) equals the est range in SM.

There ya go.

 

[Riverbed]

Been messing around with a Yaesu VX7 at 5 watts out (in reality, it's closer to 4) into a Maldol EX510 (tri band for 6, 2 and 70cm on the bow rail at about 6 to 7 feet above sea level) and at 2 to 3 miles off shore, I'm getting about 15 to 18 miles simplex with no white noise and hit, full quieting, repeaters at 20, 25 and 45 air miles. On the other hand, there are repeaters much closer thatI can't access at all so you're a victim of the repeater's receiving capablitiy as well. Had a little lift going on this morning and worked a station thru a machine in Rhode Island about 140 air miles away.