ham or cb radio

Jfet wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

As far as cell sites being above the horizon, the opposite is true which is why they ALL are on low towers, poles or buildings. You cannot build an efficient cellular network these days from high sites, there are way too many users. While there may be high sites out in the middle of nowhere, they are the exception. Ham repeaters, and any reasonable base station can easily out perform any cellular node distance wise due to frequency and power.

Jeff nailed it. Also, some Ham frequencies can bounce off of the various layers in the earth's atmosphere allowing contact hundreds or thousands of miles away (almost like a fiber optic cable where the light is contained by total internal reflection).

We just took (and passed!) our Ham technician and general license tests. Now just a short wait to get a call sign and an entry in the FCC database.