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I've been hearing that more and more.. Either they are not locking the new ones or they are "accidentally" shipping the non-U.S. models into the U.S.

I have a Jeep Gladaitor with a AluCab canopy Camper with 2ea 200w solar panels. They are mounted on 3 rails, rails are Alumnum as is the camper and frame work of the ridged panels. I have a Midland MXT 575 and will be using this to talk to others on overlanding trips from desert to mountains. I would like a antenna no taller than 18" and would like it mounted if possible on the middle rail or the rail closest to the cab. Note the Jeep tops are fiberglass so not mounting their.. I also will be runing a Kenwood TM-V71A so if anyone has knowledge on it ..same location for its antenna. I won't be using both at the same time and don't want just 1 antenia for both. I would rather not mount anywhere else. Antennias will be permanently mounted. Thanks!

I've never heard the likes of such behavior. No ID. Well. How uncivilized. I bet they use DCS tones too. What has this world come to?!?!?!?!

So it'd be the radio password IF I'd have created one otherwise it's be a more generic one. I'll give it a try, thanks.

I must have gotten lucky. the two UV5Rs i received yesterday came full unlocked. [I own straight GMRS equipment too.. I bought the 5r's on the cheep for educational reasons]

MURS Multi User Radio Surfer

Try 000000. If that doesn't work, try 123456. Another I saw online was, 059500. That is unless you have created a password for the radio already, if so use that password. Phil

But only the FrankenRepeaters have the controller dangling from the side and have a Rasperry-Pi sticker on it.

All repeaters have some kind of repeater controller. There’s an open source repeater controller built on the raspberry pi.

Not necessarily.. But, usually. Generally speaking, on average, usually, statistically speaking, most of the time, a purpose-built repeater is going to perform better than a Frankenrepeater.

Ok so stay away from things like this

Only home-made/rinky-dink type repeaters come with those raspberry pi things.. It operates as the 'controller' between what is probably two radios scotch-taped together to control or coordinate the two radios and/or do things like Auto-ID. A REAL repeater, has no such rinky-dinkn'ess .

Newbe question time. Why do some repeaters come with this raspberry pi thing.

I ordered a couple of the new Baofeng UV-5RM Pro GPS radios and was looking over the Baofeng programming software. There's a couple areas(Program Password, Frequency Range, Embed Information) where they ask for a Password to unlock it. Does anyone know what it might be? I looked at the Baofeng website but there's nothing there about this issue. Thanks.

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Thanks for responding but the membership page is noy available.

https://midwestgmrs.org/ I would look there for info.

I would like to join the Midwest GMRS Organization. I live in Aurora Indiana & have a base & mobile set up.

Most of my work in HF/VHF in the ASA was making sure no one could hear your radio or you couldn't hear anyone else's. That and DF'ing you to call in that airstrike or listening to find out what you were up to and countering it with force. Swearing at Bird Colonels in Russian to get them to blow up on the radio is just a fun way to spend a few minutes!

No. Totally different companies Sent from my SM-S911U1 using Tapatalk

"Well, you see, little Timmy, sometimes a man buys a radio so he can meet other men and exchange signal reports and talk about antennas." "What about talking to friends and family?" "Yeah yeah, they do that too, but first, let's talk about mag mounts and ground planes..."

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I know that Colorado has their GMRS Channel 3 program. I don't know if any other state has adopted that plan or not. I know there was talk about trying to make that a nation wide program. One problem is getting everyone to recognize such a program and then use designated channel/frequency only for emergencies. A prime example is CB Chanel 9 which was the defacto emergency channel for a long time. You will hear all kinds of conversations on Channel 9 now days to the point it would be useless as an emergency channel.

They do. But some older commercial equipment got both part 90 and part 95 certified. Now manufacturers are too lazy to get both. Sent from my SM-S911U1 using Tapatalk

Some dual band 2m/70cm antennas already work for MURS/FRS with acceptable SWR of 2.0 or less. And you are correct that it would not take much to dual band MURS/FRS antennas with just small changes to the element lengths.