Whats the longest range 2way handheld you can buy

[Anti-NWO]

whats the longest range 2way handheld?  perfer somthing that could talk to the moon but probaly nothing that powerful out there.
anything used overseas that gets longer range?

[Graybeard]

Probably the Motorola Sport about for legal land use. It's a line of sight radio and its range really depends on terrain. I can't say for sure about the moon but I suppose it's possible. You got anyone up there to talk to? I don't.

Marine radios are much more powerful but illegal to use on land.

I have a pair of the Sport abouts and so long as there are no serious hills between you five miles is do able and perhaps more if one of you is on a hill and the other on flat land or another hill in line of sight.

CBs can do far more when they pick up skip but sound quality isn't the equal and under normal circumstances distance is much less.

Ham radios are the real long range tools but don't think they come hand held but I might be wrong.

[phalanx]

Of course your range is going to be limited by the Wattage your using to Transmit.
There are Repeaters,and  Amplifiers ,but your still limited to the 1500 Watts allowed for use of the Ham Bands that the FCC has assigned to this type of Broadcasting.

US Amateur Transmitter Power Limits

At all times, transmitter power must be the minimum necessary to carry out the desired communications. Unless otherwise noted, the maximum power output is 1500 watts PEP. Novice/Technicians are limited to 200 watts PEP on HF bands. Geographical power restrictions apply to the 70 cm, 33 cm and 23 cm bands; see The FCC Rule Book for details.

There are in fact hand held units , but they are limited to their output and rely on Repeaters to archive any real distance as a Transceiver.

But they can be attached to an Amp and be used as well as any base station.
Some of them are simply limited to the 2 meter Ham Band ,and others can operate as well as any base station with an Amplifier.
As far as a receiver , they work as well as any that are in their size range ,and their price isn't real bad either.

Years ago the ALCON was used in Africa , it was Both a SW Transceiver , and a long range Telephone.
Plugged into the Phone jack at your Home , you could carry your Home Phone anywhere you wanted.
The one i played with would work more than 20 miles away just fine.
The Problem was they were Illegal in the U.S. , The one i had would transmit at  100 Watts ,and the Battery would heat up well enough to warm up a Burrito.
For a Wireless Telephone that exceeded the then legal limit of 3 Watts  , and it would mess up Television reception with no problem.
I was using it one day and a Tower at an Airport called me and asked what i thought i was doing ???
I boxed it up real fast after that.

[ButlerFord45]

whats the longest range 2way handheld?  perfer somthing that could talk to the moon but probaly nothing that powerful out there.
anything used overseas that gets longer range?

Actually, talking to the moon is pretty easy.  Using the moon as a mirror to bounce your signal back to another station on earth is readily done with a 5watt handheld transceiver.  It's all in the antenna.

[BIGDAVE54]

I have been sort of lurking and exploring and thought I would toss this in the discussion. I am an extra class ham operator and have my GROL with the Ship Radar Endorsement...The ham radio community does use HTs or handheld radios. I believe the most powerful one is a 2GAT unit manufactured by ICOM. It use to transmit on high power at 5 watts. HTs are held under 7 watts by law to keep from having a strong signal that close to a persons body. I use Amatuer Electronic Supply to get most of my radio equipment. They have a site on the web. I believe it is AES.COM. You can also check W5YI.com under their section for equipment dealers and find several great places to order equipment...I got my General and Advanced license when the Morse code requirement was 13 words per minute. If I am not mistaken I believe there is no code requirement at all now for a license. The basic technician license is very easy to get for most folks and gets you in to 2 meters which is like a fm style cb that reaches 50 miles or so with repeaters. We talk on a repeater in NC  that can reach into 9 states. The ham license is the best thing I have ever done in my spare time. It is a lot of fun if you have not tried it.It does not cost much either for the license and it is good for 10 years.....Dave

[trotterlg]

HTs are held under 7 watts by law to keep from having a strong signal that close to a persons body.

Guess I shoud be dead now, I've climbed many a hot 10KW AM tower changing lights, I am sill kicking 40 years later.  Larry