With good Motorola FRS, the ones I tested got 0.7 miles from "two
mile" walkies. You're right about mountains, etc.

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"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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Unless you are on a hill or maybe over water there is no way a walkie
talkie
will go 25 miles. Not even the high powered ones of 5 watts or so.
You
will be lucky to get 2 or 3 miles out of them in the normal flat areas
especially when the plants have lots of leaves on them. .

I have been a ham for over 35 years and have played with them for
years.
This is not the $ 50 class, but more like the $ 250 each and up class,
but
the price has came down to about half that now.

To get the 25 mile range you must be on tall hills or mountains.