Worlds colliding

[ezdays]

If it wasn't for the electronics experience with my layout, I would not have gotten my Amatuer Radio Licence so easily

Just the opposite, if it wasn't for my electronic background, I don't think I'd have taken the interest in model railroading the way I do. Oh, a love to build things and be creative helped as well...

3) One of my beer drinking friends often remarks how she can hear the train horns a few miles away, and nobody else believes her.

I live three miles away from the BNSF tracks that parallel Grand Ave., it is now a quite zone, no horns allowed, but I can occasionally hear the trains. Oh, I have a 95dB loss in one ear and a "normal" loss in the other. Frequently I can't even hear my wife when she's calling me from another room, so please explain how I can hear the trains three miles away? :?