I'm from Northern Utah and used to try to get a response from repeaters on my handheld radio. Being and introvert, that didn't really want to talk to people, it

I'm from Northern Utah and used to try to get a response from repeaters on my handheld radio. Being and introvert, that didn't really want to talk to people, it was one of the few things I really found interesting on HAM. I got pretty far but I was unable to hit the repeater in Wendover, NV (it was my next goal before I gave up). I used the local mountains to get myself up to an elevation where the curvature of the earth still allowed line of sight. I think Wendover is about 120 miles, line of sight, from the drive-able mountain top I selected. The expanse has two mountain ranges but there are some low spots that I thought I might be able to get through. The rest of it runs pretty flat over the salt flats.