Well, walkie laying on top of the RTU can't be much worse than being in a
heavy metal box.

And, the quarter wave for FRS is about six inches, the TX antennas are
limited to four inches, which is totally not resonant.

With all these problems, I'm amazed how well FRS works.

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Not unless you were line of sight with no steel in between, nothing
to cause multipath (As in TV ghosting) and at least a full wavelength
from the nearest large piece of steel. the signal quality & levels are
affected by all those factors. On top of that the antennas aren't very
good on a handheld, since there isn't a good counterpoise.