We did some repeater testing for the By-The-Sea Half-Marathon this past week. A 5W HT is going to have trouble getting into the primary repeater, W1GLO 2-meters from 4 of our checkpoints.

None of the area repeaters were good from all of our checkpoints and none was better than the W1GLO machine. Our designated back-up repeater, Danvers, has a cycling event net at the same time as our race and it is our 2nd best bet -- but even without a competing event, still difficulties from multiple checkpoints with a 5W hand-held.

We also tested with a 10W mobile setup and it was solid from all checkpoints. I would say that we need this minimum mobile setup from checkpoints 2-6.

We have 2 loaner set-ups that we can utilize if needed.

Please get back to me ASAP so we can form plans as needed.