While the trip up to the Cariboo was uneventful, I’m happy to say that the T2H worked flawlessly, getting in to repeaters that I didn’t think were going to be possible. Needless to say, when I was able to hit the VE7RTI repeater in Williams Lake on low power from about 60km away, I was more than slightly impressed.

Okay, so I know that it was the antenna on the repeater end that did all the work, because I wasn’t able to hit any other repeaters in Williams Lake (even on full power) from Rail Lake, which is where I was staying. Still, it was good to know that if we needed to get in touch with civilization for any reason, that it wasn’t going to be a problem.

Coming back through the Fraser Canyon wasn’t a problem either, as I was still able to get into the VE7HGR repeater in Lytton from well beyond Yale (a distance of about 83km or 50 miles). Those wide area repeaters are the ones that you always want to find about because they’re the ones that are going to come through if an emergency comes up.

Next up is the Okanagan next week, so I’ve already got the HT programmed for that region, including the Manning and Thompson/Shuswap wide area repeaters.