Okay I came home from the flying field yesterday with a huge smile on my face. No I didn't get the plane in the air. This little radio is doing what I suspect it does best , it taught me something.I have been an aermodoeler for 30 some years but never had a range check been so instructional. On 72 mhz range wasn't a big issue. You turned on your set with the antenna collapsed and walked out so many paces. It was that simple , you were just checking to see you had a link, you knew the radio had waaayyy more range than your eyes. Well the last 3 trips to the flying field had been a little concerning. I wasn't getting decent range at all. Set the plane on the ground at one end of runway and walked away, didn't even get to the end of the runway on one go. Was looking through all the settings to see what I had not done right because this little radio had such good reviews. Well for some reason yesterday it clicked in my mind they keep talking about in the air. No I wasn't going to fly it but what about setting it up on on of the stands we used to set our planes up at one end of the runway. Viola I waked way past the end of not just the runway but the field and never got below 8 out of 10 signal strength. Who knew! like i said BIG smile on my face!