Broadcasting from Mountains...

[wa6mhz]

I use one of the DCI Dualband filters in the Town Car, cuz I was just BLASTED by Pagers whenever I drove through EL Cajon with my new Icom IC-2720H. It was absolutely WORTHLESS. Nevermind that the Filter cost almost as much as the Radio did. It Fixed the problem forever!

[NQ6U]

When you get to the roof it just might look something like this familiar building so be a boy scout and be prepared.

Prepared, as in "wear a parachute."

[K7SGJ]

Prepared, as in "wear a parachute."

And lead-lined underwear.

[W7XF]

I did one better. I MOVED to a mountaintop so I can VHF Contest from home!

Pat....Crest is on a SPEED BUMP!!!!!Not a mountain.

[W7XF]

A trip up to Mt Lemmon would blow his mind. We used to do keggers there.

Exactly where I'd have Chris go. Sans keg, however.

[KG4CGC]

Kegs are kind of big and cumbersome. Cooler on wheels. Strap the batteries on top.
I've often had to drag a cooler and a large Samsonite tackle box on wheels for hundreds of yards to get to the center of a peninsula to do some fishing from a specific spot on the lake. -Now you need a boat to get to it due to all the rain we've had for the past 2 months.

[K9CCH]

There is a catch though, mountains, towers and tall buildings aren't called vertical real estate for nothing; you'll be smack dab in the middle of an intense RF field generated by an antenna farm. RF exposure limits pertain to receivers more than to you, you'll need bandpass filters to get rid of intermod that would render the effort futile. .

Its funny you mention that. I just returned from the radio supply store and I had my Baofeng with me. On the way home I was listening to my local repeater and the signal was absolutely 100% clean. As I started my incline over the Houston shipping channel bridge I noticed the higher I got the more the signal dropped out. By the time I got to the top it was skipping out and a lot of static and just a bunch or garble. Then as I declined on the other side, the signal started to come back, and by the time I was back on ground level it was back to being crystal clear. It was the strangest thing I've noticed yet.

[K7SGJ]

Kegs are kind of big and cumbersome. Cooler on wheels. Strap the batteries on top.
I've often had to drag a cooler and a large Samsonite tackle box on wheels for hundreds of yards to get to the center of a peninsula to do some fishing from a specific spot on the lake. -Now you need a boat to get to it due to all the rain we've had for the past 2 months.

Boats are good, especially when you have a good reason; and yours qualifies. You may be able to get FEMA to pay for it. I wonder if formaldehyde floats?

[KG4CGC]

Formaldehyde disperses in water.

[K7SGJ]

Well, there you go.