I'd find out when your local net are. Our repeaters here can be pretty quiet most of the day, but I'll occasionally catch a ragchew. This all reminds me that I need a new rig for the mobile. My crappy HT doesn't really cut it.
Sandoval,
Other than for a substitute for an intercom, I have little use for an HT. - I gave the last one that I bought some years ago to K4KXK, before I left VA.
My PREFERENCE in mobiles is a LMR converted to ham bands.
(I'm about to buy a converted MIDLAND 70-482B, that has 96 channels. - The vendor will reprogram it for me & cut it back to about 50-60W output, so that I don't open repeaters from TX to FL.)
just my OPINIONS, satx