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This is funny to me, I can see myself being that person.
Though I took my ft60 to my local (very small) peak, it's got a tower jam packed with antennas, and I've had good success. So I guess my front end wasn't overloaded ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I hike with a FT60 too; it's simple and robust. It'll handle San Bruno mountain except for right along the top ridgeline. Walking 20 meters downhill will let it work again. That mountain is just a crazy bubble of RF.
I use two techniques to figure out if the handheld I'm carrying will work. First, if the S meter reads at S9 but the squelch isn't opening, then it's overloaded. The second is to call into a clearly viable and local repeater. Failing to open the repeater is a pretty good sign of overload.