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When I bought mine the cable came with. Call Radioddity and ask them to send you a cable.

No I can not

Yes I know and that is why they advertise gain in dBi. But it would still be nice if they would list the gain in dBd.

Might wanna buy a programming cable. Or a good radio and a programming cable. Can you return the radio still?

I have one of these radios and I am trying to program The 8 extra repeaters channels Does anyone know how to do this from the front of the radio I do not have a program cable Thank you Dale

dBi numbers are bigger therefore you can sell more antennas.

That is what I thought.. But this guy is there, on the front lines - this is his (big) business/profession, and that's what he's telling me. Right or wrong, he's stopped importing - and i guarantee many on this form are going to notice.

I was playing around with radio mobile online and notice that their calculations are off because they are using dBi numbers in dB and dBm equations. That's what prompted me to look for a calculator for µV to dBm. t They have it as (46.23-1.3+9.8+9.8-1.6)-132.0=-69.07dBm I believe it should be (46.23-1.3+7.65+7.65-1.6)-132.0=-73.37dBm

It's Title 47, not Chapter 47. In otherwords, the GMRS Rules & Regulations fall under Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Chapter I, Subchapter D, Part 95, Subpart E.

According to this article and this article, tariff fees are paid at the point of entry. Thus, they are not assessed on the wholesale price, because that reflects costs associated with getting the product to the retailer in addition to the cost of the item itself. One thing interesting to note is that both articles state that the countries the US is imposing tariffs upon already have tariffs on US goods, usually higher than what the president is raising them to.

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Chinese made importer/reseller? I woiuld think the retaliatory fees going to make things a lot worse for China imported items.

Icoms are made in Japan so that would involve a total differnt tariff fee then China.. Japan has made a deal with the U.S. on trad but i dont know those detials, defiantly better than China due to all this retaliatory crap goijng on

Here is a video showing what Icom has stated on tariffs. According to the video, Icom won't start charging customers for the tariffs until May 8th. ICOM Radios SLAMMED with Tariffs! I'll let everyone watch the video and make their own decisions and opinions afterwards.

I'm sure I also read that it was at the port of entry, although I don't remember where I read it. Same here. I can live with the radios I have for a few years. However, I don't think China will hold out very long. The US is THE big market, purchasing 35% of all goods that are traded internationally. Simply put, without the US market, they'll go broke.

I just spoke with a large radio importer/reseller based here in the U.S. (i cant say who) - He said his tariff fees are based on the wholesale price (not 'calculated value' at the port of entry, as I thought/read about) - because the new fees would nearly double the retail price, and he knows he cant sell any at those prices, he has halted all new radio shipments.. i dont like it but I am willing to feel a little short-term pain for longer-term trade equity...

It would be nice if antenna manufacturers and retailers would list the antenna gain in dBd instead of dBi. The dBd value is more realistic and also what most coax loss calculators use. The conversion from dBi to dBd is pretty simple to remember, subtract 2.14 from the dBi value to get dBd.

I would add that moving things around like this out of the normal progression is going to make things problematic when you try to communicate with someone who has their radio set up correctly. You are really better off being able to know when someone says go to channel 12 with a tone of xyz that you are doing the same thing.

95.1763 (d) 467 MHz interstitial channels. Only hand-held portable units may transmit on these 7 channels. The channel center frequencies are: 467.5625, 467.5875, 467.6125, 467.6375, 467.6625, 467.6875, and 467.7125 MHz.

It drives me bonkers that some radios are like this. Wouldn't shock me if this were one of them. Doesn't matter what's in 8-14, it won't transmit.

This is it absolutely ^^^. And I'm guessing the radio won't care that you put 6 into 8 or whatever, anything in the 8-14 isn't going to work. I must need some sleep.

@amaff beat me to it. He is correct in that it is illegal for mobiles to transmit on channels 8-14 since the only go down to 5 watts and those channels are limited to 0.5 watts max.

That's because it's a mobile radio and can't transmit at a low enough power output to be legal on 8-14. That's pretty much standard on mobile GMRS radios.

Hello Steve, 462.6875 is channel 6 not 8. One thought is the radio may have an issue programming it in the wrong position if it is one of the initial 22 channels but I'm not sure as I don't program mine out of sequence. Usually the repeaters will be programmed into channels 23-30, 31-38 and so on. The fact that you got the others to work though makes me question the PL tone. Not all radios have the same number of tones. Retevis CTCSS #2 is 69.3 while Motorola is 71.9 so you may have the wrong tone programmed. So you may want to check that. How are you programming your radio? Direct? Using Chirp or possibly Retevis software? Can you show us a screen shot of the program? Edit: On second thought the fact you are getting the beeping has me back to the wrong frequency idea. That's usually what that indicates. This may or may not be do to the position it's been put in.

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