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Old 5th Aug 2008, 06:40
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The max theoretical range in nautical miles was always worked out thus:
1.25 √Receiver Ht (in feet) + √Transmitter Ht (in feet)

As has been said before, this is obviously subject to the fact that VHF is a line of sight transmission etc
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