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RG400 is silver plated conductors, double shield and Teflon dielectric. It's what Motorola specifically uses for all their commercial radio jumpers up to 800 Mhz. If you are not familiar with putting connectors on cables, it's a better move to just buy premade jumpers that are pretested and verified to be good. The bit of extra money is worth the piece of mind you get in knowing they will work and are assembled correctly. For 50 or 100 watts, its fine, the losses are not that significant in the 24 inches of cable that going to a different cable would really make a difference in system performance. And the cable is flexible enough that you don't have to fight it like you would LMR400 or any other .429 diameter RG8 class cable. If you REALLY can't be convinced that it's the right stuff however and want that extra diameter, the go with RG393 jumpers. Same construction as RG400 / RG142 (142 is a solid center conductor) but it's the .429 diameter. Your looking at about 15 bucks a FOOT for 393 if it brand name like Belden. And if you ARE going to build your own cables, buy brand name connectors and not the crap on Amazon. There are good connectors on Amazon, but there is some really cheap stuff too that for a repeater, I just wouldn't bother. Remember that repeaters are a fixed station. Meaning once you install it at a location, it's just gonna be there. They don't get moved around like from place to place. Better 'stuff' being used to build it means less screwing with it and less problems down the road.

Technically, they're "Fujian [Nan’an] Baofeng Electronics Co." The Pofung business was because they never trademarked Baofeng in the US (it is a place name, so it would be like trying to trademark "Miami"). But someone trademark-squatted in the US and it took Baofeng quite some time to get the trademark assignment invalidated and assigned to them. During that period, radios intended for import into the US were labeled Pofung. Any Baofeng OEM customer can request whatever labeling they want (within reason, presumably Baofeng would reject a request to label any of their products as "Motorola"). Some of their OEM customers seem to still be requesting the Pofung branding, simply because it isn't as well-known in the US.

My understanding is that if the radio itself is branded as BTECH, it is contract manufactured for them to their specs (by someone other than Baofeng). If the radio itself is branded as Baofeng (regardless of whether the box only says BTECH), it is a customized model from Baofeng which is usually (always?) exclusive to BTECH. For example, the UV-82HP is a BTECH exclusive, although there are generic tri-power UV-82s. My work on the BF-F8HP Pro (a BTECH exclusive) shows that BTECH is listening to customer feedback (many requests from Facebook, here, and other places) and it has been incorporated into the two firmware updates released so far, with more to come). It is also quite ahead of other analog Baofeng handhelds in terms of features, bug fixes, and programming software (Disclaimer: I write the Windows CPS programming software for the BF-F8HP Pro and co-manage firmware development, as well as dabbling in documentation. However, nothing I post should be considered an official statement of BTECH.) Speaking of the BF-F8HP Pro, if you use coupon code "CPS" at checkout you'll get 20% off (on that model only, and only on the BTECH website, not on Amazon). I should point out that the BF-F8HP Pro is not type approved for GMRS use, but since the equipment reviews rules were relaxed a while ago to allow discussions of non-GMRS equipment due to the overlap between the GMRS and ham communities, mentioning it here should be OK.

Personally, I've always liked Led Zeppelin as my favorite band. 20 m CW and Phone were my go to's for FD this year. Very limited Op time as usual due to annual Family do's that weekend. But managed contacts on the bands from 40-6m working a 1E station

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Fixed. (Apologies to non-sad HAMS, but that was some low-hanging comedic fruit right there.)

This is the perfect place. I’m glad you’re feeling better and I hope for the best for you.

Ok that’s what I was hoping. The size doesn’t matter too much on such a short wire. I was going to get some rg400 and connectors from DX Engineering and crimp / solder it. But these Uxcell pre-made jumper cables are very tempting at $15 each. Seems like good reviews. I’m probably going to try them. I’ll check it with my SWR meter. But I’m not sure the SWR meter will tell me how good or bad they are?

I want to thank everyone for their help! I have not been on here for quite a while! I have stage four brain cancer and it has really taken a toll on me! I am feeling better for now thanks to the treatment! I still have difficulty with simple things, I am not sure I am putting my thanks in the correct place??? But everyone on here has very helpful with my questions and I see I have been on here for a year! Doesn’t seem like it!!! anyway my thanks to everyone!

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

I have that antenna and it comes with an adapter, so for $34.89 he's all-in.

The antenna has broken off our Brookstone Shower Radio (model 359760). I'd appreciate any advice on where I can get a replacement antenna, and what specs I need to be sure it has. (It's a 2001 radio, but it sounds and works great, so I'd like to avoid scrapping it.) I've seen replacement antennas on Amazon and elsewhere, but many are poorly rated because they are flimsy, and some are poorly rated they didn't fit the radio they were bought for. I've included a link that show what the antenna looked like. Any advice is appreciated! https://offerup.com/item/detail/cf6104d9-ef93-3891-a9a6-be57cb69920c

10-4 big buddy you;re right.. 10 codes came along after voice where as q codes were used primaly for Morse code..

Good morning WRUE951! Using the iObit iTop VPN sometimes affects logging onto some social media websites. The VPN issue is that differing IP addresses show up and can be treated as BOTS or Spam.

No it wasn’t. The Q codes started in 1912. QSL started in the 1920s. 10-4 was created in the 1930s.

and 10-4 was around WAAAy before QSL

Interesting,, are you seeing issues when you use your VPN? I just recently started using Nord and i've been seeing all kinds of HTML issues after i started using it, not just here but with other sites too.. I never suspected the VPN but next time will toggle it off to see if VPN is causing problems.

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The forum knows 'everything' Just ask

Hello Group. Is the UV-5R and UV-18 Pro Max capable of dual receive? Thank you! WSIC904/KB9VVT

Interesting.

Thanks to Rich for running down the issue! There was an issue with the e-mail used to register and using VPN. Now, thanks to Rich, we are registered and able to post. WSIC904/KB9VVT

You can, however, get a magnet-mount antenna tuned for GMRS and put it on top of your vehicle, then use an adapter to attach the radio to the antenna. That will almost certainly give you a better signal, both transmitting and receiving. Antenna Adapter There are other magnet-mount antennas that some people like better, but this one has worked well for me. Feel free to solicit opinions.

The forum would know you did it.

No, but it might only be the cool people who got the notification.