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My KGXS20 will set off my neighbors motion detector light on a certain repeater channel. My H3 can activate my headlamp, my Fein Vacuum with the tool activation. It has turned on my stove when I am very close to it, but you need to push the 2nd button to make it turn on. RF energy can do strange things to unshielded equipment. I've never had my set off a GFCI though.

LMR 400-600 will work just fine for distance less than 150', of course if you have some decent height on your antenna. We used Helix on super long runs for our UHF radios at work on antennas at the upper portion of a 300' tower. From 150' down we used 600 and so did everyone else leasing space on the tower from mid point down.

As lots have mentioned here Heliax is the ideal choice. However you need to decide how much you want to spend. LMR400 is cheapest, LMR600 is more expensive but loss wise more comparable to 1/2 Heliax. For your length the dB loss doesn't justify the cost of 7/8 Heliax in my opinion. Yes the LRM types risk noise in full duplex operation, however that's more prevalent in wattages much higher than 50 watts and when there is a bunch of cable flex. I ran a test on a 100 watt 70cm HAM repeater for a while on 65 feet of LMR600 and didn't see a noise issue. Yes 400 will work but is not the best choice due to higher loss. Everyone thinks about TX and power out loss, but not many talk about RX loss, and a pre-amp cant do something for what never makes it to it. In high RF environments or with poor filtering, or a combination of both, they can do more harm than good. If your going to try one, get if from AdvancedReceiver.com I have several of them, they work great, and if you have a service monitor and the knowledge, can adjust them. Large Heliax is the best performing choice, and the most expensive, the connectors alone are $35 each. LMR600 is a good economical and good performing choice. Its actually in service in a lot of commercial setups on short runs, so is LMR400. But you wont find either going up a commercial tower due to loss and the noise issue at high wattage. Andrews and Times Microwave also offer grounding kits for LMR600. I recommend grounding the cable shield as well as a good quality (not a cheap amazon) lightning arrestor. A good one will run you $100 or so. Check repeaterbuilder.com It has lots of good info and a copy of the Motorola site standards, which you may find very helpful. I own and operate a GMRS repeater with a 60 mile radius as well as a 70cm DMR HAM repeater that can go farther (both have site elevation to their advantage, they are high). I've also put together other large footprint repeaters at commercial sites.

Do they, Are they?? going to do a HAM ver of this radio?

A Midland will fit your bill just fine.. No Bells and whistles, ho hype, just radio. They just work. You better get you a Midland

I used the WX_PLAYER and put it into a BF-888 via a headphone jack and it worked fairly well.

Ive got one in Sarepta on a 20ft tower. You'd have to be in Sarepta to hit it and receive it tho. only 5w output. The Springhill Louisiana Amatuer Radio Club is putting one up soon.

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You are very correct. It’s literally done in purpose. That why all I want in a radio is to RX and tx on the 22+ 8 gmrs “channels”, have a +5 off set and have dcs and cts tones. And do that very well. I Don’t need or want all the other hype. Don’t need Bluetooth or gps in a radio. Just need a radio to be a radio. I’ve got other stuff tech for all the other stuff.

Wow... Sorry to hear that. Electricity definitely jumps. Good on the two that said no. Working High voltage wasn't my favorite thing to do but when I did we always had a tailgate meeting to go over the task step by step and I always asked if anything seemed wrong or missing, I wanted input. If two people are saying no it sure would be cause to reevaluate the situation. Always more impotant to go home at the end of the day.

I have a 35 year old Fluke 27 that has never let me down. I had a supervisor that wanted some measurements taken inside of a 72 KV switchyard. The two operators on duty refused to perform the task and reminded the supervisor (who had been an operator and went through the high voltage training) that measuring tapes were not allowed inside of a live switchyard. He got mad and went in the switchyard to get the measurements anyway. He lived but will never fully recover from what it did to his body. That was in a very specific professional setting, but the lessons apply to anyone working with any voltages.

Of course they will "improve" this radio. Their business model demands it. Not saying this won't turn out to be a very nice radio at an affordable price, but.... In 12 months an updated version will be available with some of the features you want, but not all. In another 18 months a newer version with even more features and capability will be released. That hamster wheel of "improvement" and release of "updated" radios will continue to spin indefinitely. But manufacturers will always stop short of giving us exactly what we want. I may be wrong. But I suspect it would not be too hard for BTech to build new radios with all the capability, bells, whistles and unicorn features we all crave right now. But then how would they get us to repeatedly spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars every year on new radios when we could just get we wanted in the first place and use it for a decade. LOL I'm sure it goes the same for all our other friends in China who manufacture radios. And, would probably hold true if an American company started manufacturing budget style GMRS radios. Kind of joking....But kind of not.

I thought you hated Midland..

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I can definitely believe that. But transmitting on one H3 while receiving on the other H3 doesn’t affect the final transistor(s) (the output transistor) on the receiving radio.

I've been unable to login to CORES. Have others had luck this past week?

A mag mount Midland ghost antenna may be the best bet. You can move it easily or it will get nocked off vs breaking. And you can buy 4-5 of them for the price of a heavy duty one. You can get creative with placement depending on the skid steer as well.

I have had my H3's trigger my GFI in my bathroom.

Looks like a nice option for my vehicle. I have limited space, so a remote mount unit like this would work well for me.

Love mine too. I'm up to buying 14 of them. Had 2 bad ones that were replaced without issue. I have 6 of them that I can use and the rest given away to family and friends.

OP what route did you go and how is it working??

I really like the h3 as well. It’s a Fantastic “beater” ht and one of of mine has been a beast taking all kinds of drops and falls and still working great. Loud speake and significantly Better RX than baofengs and easy menu editing.

They have had some spotty quality control, unfortunately. I really like mine, I have 4 of them. All tested good. But there are some that seem to just show up broken. A programming error where you couldn't transmit would get you the "YOU CAN'T DO THAT DUMMY" beep when you key up. If it's not doing that, and it's just outputting 0W, then yeah, they're probably NFG.

Thanks guys I did multiple factory resets. Switched to gmrs mode with factory programming and no output wattage. Did the same with ham mode as well no output wattage there either. Kinda at a loss at that point and just sent them back. Super weird. They worked good out of the box. But subsequent resets did not fix them. (tested into a dummy load)