Cliff:

five watts and a stacked-five element beam is a good starting point
then--but hard to mount the beam on an auto...

Warmest regards,
John
"Cliff" wrote in message
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What chaps me is that if I want to get out to talk 5 miles I have to
have a pill to accomplish that! I wish that there was no such thing
as
a pill. Given a good antenna and decent radio one can hold one's own
against people that are running the same legal power. Antenna makes,
this is my thought, 80% and radio 20% of getting a signal out