Fire calls from a county only 40 miles away on 33.70 do not come in at my home even with an outside antenna and a signal booster, yet they are hear in Germany, NOrthern Ireland, the UK and even New Zealand.  Why?  It is because of the F2 layer of the ionosphere and sunspot cycle 24.

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