[Vermont Lt]

I have a 5 watt hand held 2 meter radio. IF I can hit a repeater, I might hit 20 miles.

I would hate to think our silly transmissions are readable 20 light hours away.

[TalonDJ]

“I have a 5 watt hand held 2 meter radio. IF I can hit a repeater, I might hit 20 miles.”

Yeah but that is not LoS. Around here with mountaintop repeaters on big mountains I can hit ones a lot far there a way than that. You can talk to the space station with an HT and that is more like 300 miles away.