Heather is on a much needed vacation

If you have noticed since Tuesday afternoon Heathers been absent from her normal duties of iding the repeater and making announcements

She is currently on vacation while we make repairs to the Arcom Controller 

It appears that lightning or a power surge due to it caused a memory failure in the controller

The repeater is operating on its internal controller with only a CW ID which meets FCC requirements

We will notify everyone when the situation changes

Thank you

73

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Well what is the range of handheld radio(ht)? The average range of a HT is around 2 -3 miles in an urban area without repeater use but with repeater use is around 50 miles. But this depend on many factors like terrain, power, antenna & evaluation. 

Terrain without trees will do better than with trees same goes for many other things. Evaluation also goes with this because if you are on the 20 floor of a building it will get more range than on ground level. Power mostly effects the quality of signal in analog but in digital it sounds about the same with all amounts of power. Antennas is the the most important factor of the range of a HT. If you have a great radio and a poor antenna it won't do as good as a great antenna with a poor radio. 

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