In article wmQme.20854$PS3.731@attbi_s22, Jim wrote:

hello. I'm not a ham radio operator(yet) but was hoping I could still
get some help here. A relative of mine stays at a rv campground close by
me. Its maybe 2-3 miles if you drew a straight line from my house.

the campground is in a very low area. you drive down a hill for quite a
ways and it has a lot of trees all down the hill. cell phones rarely
work and break up when they do. I have tried a indoor 1/4 wave antenna
at my house with murs while I setup a 1/4 wave antenna on their car at
the campground and no luck.

Would I have any more luck on the cb frequencies? Anyway thanks for the help

It's possible - the lower frequency may diffract differently (and
perhaps more successfully) from the hilltops. It's probably worth
trying with some borrowed CB radios; I don't think I'd go out and
spend money on CB radios just to experiment.

The way I'd deal with a no-line-of-sight situation like this on the
2-meter band (frequency not all that different from MURS) would be to
locate some large landmark (preferably a large hill or mountain) which
is visible from both locations. I'd then aim a directional beam
antenna at it, from each site, and see if there was enough reflection
off of the mountain/hill to establish a useful communication link.

You'll probably need to get the antenna at your end of the link out of
the house - attenuation in the walls is likely to cost you a lot of
signal.

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