Hello,

Out in the open, with no obstructions there will be little difference. The
only good thing about UHF is high gain antennas that are a lot smaller, so
that can help. For hills and mountains you would be better on 70MHz, it
does tend to cover an area better than 2m. In a town centre go for 70cm.
Not knowing where you are it's difficult to advise. Repeaters are so high
anyway it wouldn't be noticable.

"Keyboard In The Wilderness" wrote in message
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Take a look at this one:
http://www.artscipub.com/simpleton/simp.range.html
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73 From The Wilderness Keyboard
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I have checked a few references, but I would really like
to 'hear from experienced ears', soooo, the question.
If you setup two situations alike, such as two same autos, same
amount of power, same db gain on mobil/base antennas , what would be
the difference in the 'distance of one band over the other'. If two
meters 'talked' farther,,,,,,,,,,,, than 440mhz. what would likely be
the amount.
I live 'out in the boonies', and thru the base antenna 'reach out'
and connect with the cities repeaters, and I '''see/hear''' very
little difference in the range (those located close to each other) of
such repeaters, (two meters/440). This along with other factors has
lead to this question.
In the past, the 'minor tests' that I have conducted did not really
prove that much. I, at home/base talking to my yl and switching
between 'bands', this was not all that scientific, and all I concluded
was 'the bands' were similar in abilities. ???? Sooo, feel that others
have 'been there,done that',,,,, and had more in lighten results.
thanks in advance. 73 cl.