Luke,

You could listen to cordless phones if the tone squelch is off!

900 is getting big here in western Washington state but 440mhz is big here 
too.

I have hosted a 900mhz at my place for years and can tell you the coverage 
Butch mentioned is accurate.  440 travels lots better and 900 meg gets into 
feed line issues with loss.

Brian, k5in
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: TS480 and TS2000 comparison needed for HF


> Hi.
>
> I actually wouldn't mind trying out 900 MHz if there were some other
> activity in this area, but in Rochester, NY, all I would hear most likely
> is white noise.  I'd probably have to put in a substantial enough antenna
> to reach Toronto before I would have any reasonable expectation of working
> anybody.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
> At 08:01 AM 11/16/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>>What I've played with 900 here, it isn't nearly as good as 440.  Much more
>>easily blocked by buildings and such and very unpredictable as far as
>>coverage.  Also very fluttery as it has a much shorter wave length.  One
>>problem is it takes a totally separate radio.  Kind of like 220.
>>73s
>>Butch Bussen
>>wa0vjr
>>
>>
>>
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