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I'd get a fiberglass magnet and try that

I've never been asked to produce a copy of either my Amateur or GMRS licenses. I've heard tell of a couple instances of SH's asking to see someone's license before they let them key up their precious Hams radio, but only as hearsay...

If you don’t like my posts there is an ignore function you’re free to use.

I just don’t see the issue. Criminals do not look up fcc call signs. Everyone else already has your info.

I can’t think of any situation that would require the license to be carried on the person.

That’s a ground plane antenna so you’re gonna need 12-18” of steel/aluminum in all directions. If you can’t do that you’re gonna need to find a no ground plane antenna for a lip mount.

The GMRS license does not come with an attached wallet card like the amateur licenses come with. Or at least the copies I downloaded in October 2023 and the additional copy I downloaded a few weeks ago do not have it.

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The 900MHz spectrum is sort of a garbage patch as it is. That's where the FCC likes to stick unlicensed crap, it's one of the ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical) bands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band

You would think it would be that easy but nope. Read this article https://www.creditcardreviews.com/blog/yes-you-can-be-auto-billed-even-if-you-change-your-card-number

You can only use one channel at a time.

Carry all my FCC certs in my wallet. As said the license has the wallet card on it.

Hams are most liekly loosing 900Mhz and if they dont start using spectrum again they will loose more. They can use narrowband now and many do.

You can get them into cars, motorcycles, shooting sports, etc etc and they won't have money for anything else.

I just uploaded 5 channels on different feq and DTSC codes when the unit is hooked up to the antenna can I use all of them or just 1 channel at a time? Thanks for putting up with me. The book dose not answer my question.

Someone wiser than me once said, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Get them interested in radios, and they'll never have enough money for drugs.

Looking to install midland ghost antenna on c7 z06 corvette. If anyone has any tips to get the antenna in a good spot maybe near the halo or b pillar to keep it up high please chime in.

You should get bank statements monthly. If you read those you should know of any "auto" payments. If you cancel something with an auto payment and get charged again, call your bank. it's an unauthorized debit and the bank will kill it and either reimburse it or claw it back. Companies with auto payments are required to notify you, using the contact info you supply, before withdrawals are made. Why pay for a "service" when all you need to do is read your bank statement?

A couple of things about every forum I participated in. You have to have thick skin or your precious ego will be destroyed. Everyone has and is entitled to, even if they don't share mine and are wrong, opinions. And sweating the small stuff is not only fun but educational. Life is full of mystery and controversy. Embrace them.

This is a topic you could search for hours on and not come up with a clearly definitive answer. In fact, there's almost no argument, even. The advantages and disadvantages of each are so minor people don't really seem to be all that passionate about it. CTCSS will behave with older equipment that doesn't support DCS. But who are we protecting? There aren't a lot of people operating 20 year old blister pack GMRS radios lacking DCS support on repeaters. Both are subaudable tones or sequences that have to be filtered out by the radio's high pass filter. Both have different reasons for behaving a little oddly at fringe-reception areas. DCS *may* take a little longer for the sequence to be transmitted completely enough for a radio to open squelch, but we're talking tenths of a second at most. CTCSS may be a little more crowded (you may have a slightly harder time finding a channel and tone pair that isn't in use). But the fact that we have both systems really is a product of the evolution of marketing bullet points from vendors. One or more vendors claimed they had a new and improved system, and they pushed it to the point that it gained adoption. But the fact that DCS and CTCSS have continued to co-exist for decades, filling the exact same purpose, without a clear winner pushing the other out of the way kind of indicates there's not a clear winner.

CTCSS is older and more prone to spurious noise opening the squelch - weather or ambient. Additionally, there are relatively few usable tones. DCS is newer was was designed to address those shortcomings. Both came out of Motorola, who initially was one of the only manufacturers of radios with enough frequency stability to use DCS (though others caught up quickly). Even today, some Baofeng as they age have trouble with a DCS system. Also, many older radios can't use DCS at all, and a few transitional models needed modules to enable it (usually you'd swap our the CTCSS module to a dual mode module). So, yes, DCS is better, but CTCSS more compatible.

I had (have) the same concerns as most in this thread ... this is what I have done ... may not be for everyone. As suggested above, I rented a POBox and changed my address with the FCC to that address. I found that shopping around for PO Boxes pays off. I went to https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm and typed in just my zipcode where it asks for full address. It displayed all the Post offices in my area. My local post office wanted $60.00 for 3 mos or $20/mo (Extra Small box) But a smaller post office nearby (5 miles away) only wants $26 for 3 mos. or $8.67/mo. And if I bought 6 mos at once (which I did), the price dropped to $42.00 or $7.00/mo. Not bad. I do not, however, want to drive 5 miles every day just to check a probably empty mail box. (This is a secondary address and is only given to the FCC who almost never send me mail. Besides the FCC other hams may send me mail (e.g. QSL cards) but I am interested in those.) In any case, I signed up for Informed Delivery... a free service of the USPS (see https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm) which will send me photos of any mail that arrives, so I only make the trip to the Post Office when there actually IS mail. Finally, I registered my new address with DirectMail.com and DMAchoice.org to eliminate most junk mail. Works well... I recommend it.

Thanks guys. My Repeater is coming today.

i remember some 10 years ago subscribing to Norton Antivirus and having to close my bank account because them suckers kept charging for the service i canceled. Cancelling the card didn't work because Norton pays the banks for some stupid service that allows them to follow a customers account via Visa.

Not familiar with that particular radio, but have you looked for an option in the menu labeled TXP? On my ar5rm its option 02 on the menu.