i am not sure, you should be able to do good with your elevation there, if you are putting any power out a all, 1 watt plus you should be doing good, i have worked it with my FT-50 and the ducky, is your transmit power ok, or do you have some local qrm from the AF base??   try to program in terry peak repeater 147.030 + 146.2pl and if you can hit that from your location you should able to do all the FM sats, if that helps, at least see if your TX is ok, Rodney kc0zhf

Am I doing something wrong or is AO-27 just very hard to hit with a FT-60R  handheld, and ELK ant?  I have no problems hearing it but working it is another thing!!