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So I have recently put up a 60ft tower and currently have a cheap whip antenna and 100ft of coax attached. I realize that is not ideal but I was kinda surprised that I only get about 5-8 km the radio hooked to the tower it a 5w and I am using a mobile 25w with mag antenna to do range tests. I realize that I should have a much better antenna but just haven’t gotten there yet any other ideas to improve range. The other issue is that I live in an area with a lot of hills however I tested from about 10 km away with basically line of site and still got nothing