lonestardiver
TGT Addict
BUT in East Texas pine Forrest it ain't that good.
As experienced while recovering shuttle wreckage.
Exactly. 2m worked moderately well there.
The Amateur Radio operators were called in since every agency had different radios, frequencies, etc. Even if they were to be in the same band, those radios are not field programmable.
We brought in a repeater just for the Hams to use. There were areas where 2m was limited and you had to get out of the trees to make contact with command.
6m would have been better, but very few 6m handhelds exist.
We train for these sorts of things and understand the limitations as well as the need to improve your location to get a workable signal out.
Knowing how to relay information from one to to command and back where conditions didn’t permit direct contact is important.