>>1702755thats right at sunset, for about 1-2 hours using a Tram or Nagoya magnet mount antenna on top of my truck, but yeah, I can hit that repeater from Big Lagoon State Park using just the handheld which is around 55 miles, I use the Baofeng clipped onto my bicycle basket, I can listen to NPR and it monitors the local Fire and Coast Guard on Dual Watch,
I really do not reccomend this as a first radio because its complicated to operate and set up and it has some quirks, but this is what everyone buys because its cheap
