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Travis Jordan wrote:

This six mile radio says in the FCC specs that it puts out only less
than half a watt...am I reading that right?

"six mile radio" is a marketing term. ~500 mw for power output sounds
perfectly plausable for an FRS/GMRS hand held.

Agreed. A lot of the less-expensive FRS/GMRS radios have transmitters
which only deliver the 1/2-watt legal limit for FRS. They can tune
to, and transmit on the GMRS frequencies, but they don't do so at any
higher power than than can do on the FRS-only and FRS/GMRS frequencies.

You could almost certainly get 6 miles of range out of these radios,
if their receivers aren't horribly insensitive (which they sometimes
are) and if you have a completely clear line-of-sight between one
radio and the other (think "standing on a hilltop, talking to a guy
who is standing on another hilltop six miles away that you can see
without obstruction."

At ground level, with buildings and trees around, the range is likely
to be on the rough order of a half-mile or even less.

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