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Seems like there is always the tendency to make things more complicated than the really are.

My RT-900 gets 6.82w on 1.25M. For $25 bucks it's a heck of a nice radio.

Maybe your tune is a bit off. Doesn't take much.

Noted, I may need to visit that facet

I have the similar XLT 100 watt duplexer, DP-GMRS-100R and it has less than a 1.3dB loss through the duplexer. I think the difference is it's in a rack case and has N connectors instead of 239s. I saw almost no difference between the 3 duplexers I have from the output of my repeater.

My kids likes the ducks and my oldest likes to trade ducks so they stay.

Soooo... I might have a duplexer for sale, Justa sayin....

FYI, the Duplexer I am/was using which gave me 24W from a 47W input is the DP-GMRS-100 by XLT.

Update: I contacted Radioddity about the TYT TH-9800. explained my issue. I have had this gear for over a month but they replied that they would replace it. I am not surprised due to the reputation of this particular machine BUT they did act fast with no pushback, as least for now. Thank you again for all of your input to lead me to not keeping a piece of gear that doesn't work. As a newby, I would have kept it and eventually trashed the $ amount paid.

Get those stupid ducks off the dash! That's an embarrassment to real Jeepers!

Can you remote in to program it?

Needing help programming my Baofeng dmr 1701 to Open GD77. Getting a Comport No communication with Radio error message.

I've done a lot of solar power station/panel reviews on my YouTube channel. I "preach" solar to anyone who'll listen. We get a lot of sunny days here in Arizona so it only makes sense to use solar power.

Picked up a Jeep a few months ago finally got the radios installed. Icom-2730a (Black) for the ham stuff. Antenna is a Larsen 2/70B Motorola XTL5000 with W3 head for the GMRS, Ham P25 and FD stuff. Antenna is a PCTEL (B)MWU4002S I used the fender mounts by Topsy.

Well, I'm not doing show and tell. You are wrong about the equipment. It does not have to be a desktop type rig, i.e. a true base radio; mobiles and handhelds in a house, garage, radio shack, office, etc. with an external antenna on a pole, roof, chimney or in a tree are base stations. That's what they mean by fixed location, and notice they always refer to base station not base radio. My DB20G can be setup as base station, mobile station and portable station. Even my UV5G can be a base station.

I just wanted to make sure I don’t end up on some restricted use channel on accident… or is that impossible with a 5W handheld?

Show me a GMRS base station. One that is manufactured to fit the qualifications of a true base station, not cobbled together from a portable or mobile transceiver and power supply. The only units I can see that approximate the requirements of being in a fixed location are repeaters however, they fail the "communicates only with other fixed stations" prong of the FCC definition.

That doesn't match what FCC said. (I put that in another thread.) They specifically said "any station..." without qualifying it except for the specific fixed station limitations. So IMO a base setup definitely fits when it follows the fixed station rules. [And that's not what this topic/thread is about anyway.]

You really have that mixed up. Fixed station has nothing to do with this.

Love my anytone 778, in fact i have 2, have one in the car, and the other was my base unit until i came across a 50w anytone 5888 for $50 in "unknown" condition (translation... replace the fuse in the lead and it works) which is now the base radio...

The DB-25G has a lot of potential, but unfortunately seems to have quality issues (see Amazon note about frequently returned), a number of little firmware quirks, and in my experience output was a good bit below the advertised watts. I went through several (thank goodness for Amazon's easy returns/replacement) to end up with a unit that has a few quirks I can live with. At least one of the units I received had trouble with reading/writing with both the factory CPS and CHIRP. While not a GMRS radio, I have often wondered if the BTECH UV-25X2 (similar radio, but with BTECH custom firmware) solves a lot of the issues.

That’s a great example. Another example would be dedicated intercoms between two or three buildings.

I'm seeing that after reading what Boxcar posted.

GMRS channels/frequencies are shared with FRS and channels 8-14 are restricted to 0.5 watts. Make sure your radio doesn't have any "privacy" (they aren't private) tones set. If tones are set, you won't be able to hear anything that doesn't come from a radio using the same tone. You'll need to set tones to use repeaters, but first clear them all out and listen to see who's talking and what channel(s) they're using.

Yes. It's best to think of fixed stations as transmitters permanently attached to a fixed pad firmly attached to the ground under them. They are used to send information from one permanent location to another station meeting the same mounting requirements. The best example for the simpletons is a radio transmitter connected to a gauge monitoring liquid levels or pressure at one location sending to a receiver at another permanent location that receives only the information from the sending unit of the pair.