Dave,

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Having travelled extensively across the western and central part of the US, I find that I plan my route and then I try to plan which repeaters are within 50 miles or so of my mobile, and which of those repeaters are 50 miles apart.

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Of course the distance to the various repeaters will vary depending on what you are using. If a handheld (which I am assuming since you mentioned at one point that you just got your FT60 and this is the FT 60 group), I would limit that to about 5-10 miles from your intended route.

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I would highly suggest that you get a regular mobile type radio and mount it in your vehicle, both for safety (to avoid having something becoming a flying, damaging object…as well as to increase your range).

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I use this website ?? ?to find repeaters and find that it is pretty accurate as well as free. Yes you can pay to get any of those travel repeater software programs, but I prefer to just find the repeaters and then put into my radio BEFORE I do any traveling, that way they are there, and you don’t have to do any programming on the fly. I think you will find hamobiling a much more enjoyable experience if you do this, then you can concentrate on driving and talking instead of having to constantly search for repeaters and worry about trying to program your radio, finding the correct PL tones as well as discovering that some repeater you can hear and you are assuming a standard offset, instead has a non standard? input frequency.? You know now this in advance and already have it programmed into your radio.

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Good luck on your travels and be safe out there.

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