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If you don't want to put up a mast, AND you are close enough to WM's mobile hooch, you could place the antenna on top of it and get a metal ground plane about 12 feet up in the air (a ladder or forklift would be handy to get it up there and take it down). Most any large MV would be able to do...

PRC77's are only 4 watts, without a good antenna and an AM-2060 they are not much better than the GMRS HH's. Good antenna gives you an improved SWR and the AM2060 puts a bit more power in the output signal. Or, alternately, send the radio unit up on top of a hill, then try to talk.

A - 2 meter (146.500 Mhz) B - 2 meter (ditto plus GMRS - 70 centimeter) C - 6 meter (51.000 Mhz) And I'm WQTQ575 on GMRS!

We probably need to scan the channels once we get there since the dirt bike crowd will likely be using some of them (hopefully only the FRS channels, SINCE THEY LIKELY DON'T HAVE AN ACTUAL LICENSE - we do have an FCC license!).

Don't know about 60' up, but I do have a military AT-292 that we could rig up (if we can get antenna sections short enough for 2 meters - maybe think full wave). It will go up about 30', and if we remind Bob (tennmogger) of the dates, maybe he'll show up in his radio MOG so we can have a base...