I can generally hit a repeater 17mi (27km) away from at home. When I’m outside, I can be heard well, when I’m inside, I’ll break the repeater’s squelch but may not be clearly copied. HT to HT is generally much less, but I’d generally expect a mile or two (3km)

Usually 40 and 20. I often only use 2 when I’m on road trips or hiking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Scaramucci

without ever seeing combat

Tell that to the unarmed balloons shot down earlier this year!

Agreed about wishing it would be open source. The most usable OSS combo I’ve found for using my rspdx over a network is SoapySDR and CubicSDR and CubicSDR hasn’t had a release since Feb 2022.

I’m forcing myself to remember that this is just essentially a beta release, with a lot of features missing. With as long as it took them to release this version, I’m not holding my breath to get new features any time soon though.