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Hi, Just a word of caution. We were going to try vhf marine until we saw on the evening news where the FCC tracked down some non marine users in our area and fined them heavily. We were told vhf should cut brush. So our next step was to buy commercial vhf motorola 2 watt nicad. They performed good. Then on a hunt in fairly open rolling ground one person brought several motorola fr-60 .5 watt. We tried them side by side to the vhf. The fr-60 blew them away even at the closest ranges just over a hilltop 3-400 yds. We sold the vhf's. I inquired at the local Motorola dealer about this and got a quick answer in greek to me. So in general they said something like this. Vhf signals are strong point to point and will bend a little. Uhf signals bounce around and seem to get better coverage and surprise people when a .5 watt frs radio sends and recieves an emergency call 100 miles away(true story). We just recently bought a bunch of motorola uhf 2 watts on the advice of an electronics friend, but have not tested them yet. So it seems that type of radio and area of use(terrain) has some bearing on performance.

<blockquote data-quote="tripod3" data-source="post: 184552" data-attributes="member: 8816"><p>Hi, Just a word of caution. We were going to try vhf marine until we saw on the evening news where the FCC tracked down some non marine users in our area and fined them heavily. We were told vhf should cut brush. So our next step was to buy commercial vhf motorola 2 watt nicad. They performed good. Then on a hunt in fairly open rolling ground one person brought several motorola fr-60 .5 watt. We tried them side by side to the vhf. The fr-60 blew them away even at the closest ranges just over a hilltop 3-400 yds. We sold the vhf's. I inquired at the local Motorola dealer about this and got a quick answer in greek to me. So in general they said something like this. Vhf signals are strong point to point and will bend a little. Uhf signals bounce around and seem to get better coverage and surprise people when a .5 watt frs radio sends and recieves an emergency call 100 miles away(true story). We just recently bought a bunch of motorola uhf 2 watts on the advice of an electronics friend, but have not tested them yet. So it seems that type of radio and area of use(terrain) has some bearing on performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="tripod3, post: 184552, member: 8816"] Hi, Just a word of caution. We were going to try vhf marine until we saw on the evening news where the FCC tracked down some non marine users in our area and fined them heavily. We were told vhf should cut brush. So our next step was to buy commercial vhf motorola 2 watt nicad. They performed good. Then on a hunt in fairly open rolling ground one person brought several motorola fr-60 .5 watt. We tried them side by side to the vhf. The fr-60 blew them away even at the closest ranges just over a hilltop 3-400 yds. We sold the vhf's. I inquired at the local Motorola dealer about this and got a quick answer in greek to me. So in general they said something like this. Vhf signals are strong point to point and will bend a little. Uhf signals bounce around and seem to get better coverage and surprise people when a .5 watt frs radio sends and recieves an emergency call 100 miles away(true story). We just recently bought a bunch of motorola uhf 2 watts on the advice of an electronics friend, but have not tested them yet. So it seems that type of radio and area of use(terrain) has some bearing on performance. [/QUOTE]

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