Why can police radios transmit over long distances even though the transmitter is very small?

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Like a police officer’s handheld radio is able to transmit to another unit let’s say 10 miles away, and he’s able to do that with ease. How is this possible? How come handheld radios that we have access to can’t do that? I know this probably sounds dumb to most of ya’ll but

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Moor Powar and a combination of repeater. Car radios can use 25 watts compared to 4 watts for non-police. Also the car can often act as a repeater for their lower power handheld.

Also ground repeaters which can be hundreds of watts or even 1,000+ sometimes.

*Note #1: Common power numbers. Not strictly.*

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