Attn: Southern Classic guys and gals

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:47:26 -0600, "Charles Summers"
wrote:

Any of you planning on bringing two-way radios? I was thinking about picking
up one or two of those little units in case we need communications. Wouldn't
want to lose anyone again this year.

Hey Moe... how well do you think these things will work out on that big
lake?

My experience using the popular 2-way radios hunting & fishing is that
they are not very effective--range is limited pretty much to clear
line-of-sight distance. Hills, lake points, islands, trees,
buildings--any interfering structures reduce the range significantly.
Their claims of 1 to 5 miles distance are not realistic, or perhaps
are based on absolute optimum conditions, such as boat to boat across
flat water.

Maybe Moe or others have had better results?