What ham license are you looking at, for technition where you mainly get
UHF/VHF, you might need an outside antenna, but there's always a way. My
sister lives in a place like that and my HT doesn't do much from there but I
did try a good antenna from around there and it did reasonably well, I also
live in a major hole, no mountains here where I am, but I'm in a huge hole,
an HT is useless with a rubber duck here inside the house, but with my
outside antenna which is a good diamond antenna, I'm down in 1 direction but
to the north which is the direction for me with out woods, I quite regularly
cover 50 to 75 miles depending on the day. If you want to go higher then
that and get on HF, don't worry about it, I know people who are in
situations where they should never get out on Hf, 1 would think but they get
out as well as anyone. If you can't put up an antenna, a good mag mount on a
cookie sheet or something might get you out well enough for UHF/VHF, in
other words, if I were you, I'd go for it and try it. Unless you're really
limited I'd say you should be alright. That's 1 of the fun things in this
hobby, getting creative is a great idea more often then not. There's always
a way. Like wise, if you want to hear AM stations on your radio, if you have
a stereo that you can switch antennas on, put up a loop antenna, I have a
portable 80 meter loop antenna I put on mine just to see what it would do
and it heard so much I had to take it off, the NY stations were over riding
the RI/MA stations and there were even a couple in PA I was hearing, at
night especially and I'm in MA/RI area.
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From: "Bob Humbert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:25 AM
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> new little standard broadcast AM-FM radio to listen to the all night =
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> rocket scientist from Radio Shack who told me that there were no radios =
> with better sensativity and selectivity now than there was lets say 30 =
> or 40 years ago and that there is nothing that can be done. Is that =
> true? Then I'm wondering if the same is going to be true for ham radio =
> and if I should bother to continue trying to get a licens. Of course, =
> the mountains around us must look like a porkypine with all of the 2 =
> meter repeters but in a real disaster llike an erth quake they will be =
> useless. A good one will take out their power and knock them down. Any =
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