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Originally Posted by woytovich
Just to satisfy my curiosity... was there cell service where all/some of this took place? Maybe a silly question?
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No cell service. It's pretty remote on the Saline Valley side. Remember the scale here. The Floor of Saline Valley is at most 2000 ft. The Inyo Mountains are 9000 feet. The escarpment is extremely sharp. These are not like East Coast mountains.
It was interesting, though. The following day near the Racetrack, we had a brief patch of cell service heading up to Lost Burro gap. I have no idea where the tower was, but likely near Las Vegas. I called Cruiserdan and ordered a radiator. No kidding. The area of cell service was only about 1/2 mile long. Weird.
These radios rock. Anyone who thinks they'll get by with CB is kidding themselves. We've had other similar experiences with radio to radio communication over 100 miles.
Remember too, that we had a couple of repeaters we could hit in the same spot, so theoretically, we could have done a phone patch if there was an emergency.