2m has pretty much become loaded with APRS trackers.
This is not so. APRS in North America is restricted 144.390MHz. One frequency is hardly loaded.....
(Forgot to include this in my orginal post)
5 Miles? Do you live in an electromagnetic vortex or something? Under normal conditions I routinely work stations on VHF that are 50 to 60 miles away from me with as little as 5 watts of power without the aid of the local repeater system. With very good conditions hundreds of miles are possiable without using repeaters. I think you must have made a typo or you need to do more research...........
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2m has pretty much become loaded with APRS trackers. This is not so. APRS in North America is restricted 144.390MHz. One frequency is hardly loaded..... (Forgot to include this in my orginal post)
5 Miles? Do you live in an electromagnetic vortex or something? Under normal conditions I routinely work stations on VHF that are 50 to 60 miles away from me with as little as 5 watts of power without the aid of the local repeater system. With very good conditions hundreds of miles are possiable without using repeaters. I think you must have made a typo or you need to do more research...........