In Chardon Oh, in the morning, there is a 147.390 repeater that has a trivia net. In order for me to get into their net, I had to shut off the 147.390 repeater atop Rockton Mtn - 27 miles away, since the local repeater was linked to the WAN and had profusely too much chatter to be useable.
The Chardon Repeater in Sandusky Co was exactly 120 miles away..
I was using the Diamond V2000 antenna and the Yaesu 8900R - 40 watts..
Increasing power into the input of a repeater would not allow you to talk over someone else. Yes the capture effect accepts the strongest signal and ignores all of the others.
You would have been better off to have a Fox Hunt and find the disruptive person and put a needle in their coax. Problem being that most people today only has a handheld radio....
I once heard a repeater out in Iowa from Western Pennsylvania, but it faded out before I got the whole call sign and PL.
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