Strictly backup comms in my AO. Going to try and reach my bestie 4.1 miles to the west. I should have a radio up high enough at my house where it will cover the neighbors I care about as well.What are you guys planning to use them for? Or just to play around with?
I'd fall in the latter category. I was thinking it would be fun to try and setup communication between my friend's house and mine. He's about 8 miles away as the crow flies. If I stashed them strategically I wonder how hard that would be to do. If they didn't have to be solar, they could be pretty small, just hanging in a tree or bush along the road.
That's what appealed to me about those birdhouse ones those guys were making. I don't think they ever got to production levels, but they shared all of the design data.
These are good for finding high spots and LOS for these devices, (radios in general)

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