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one of my RV friends struggles with the ghost antenna when trying to talk to traffic behind him when he is pulling his 5th wheel. His is mounted on his truck roof about 3 inches in front of his third brake light. It works pretty good to the front where there is no blockage, I have a midland whip mounted on the roof and don't have those same issues..

lol, this would work too! (shoot for 30 1/2")

In recent years we have had a couple of people get in from the Wilkes Barre area, Selingsgrove and up near Tioga County. Where else have people been able to get into the Williamsport 675?

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Some radios allow “selective calling” where you can send a code to one specific radio and it will listen while other radios ignore you.

Can anyone tell me what we would use this programming screen for inside CHIRP ? Can you give an example and purpose

With both of these two antennae, I am able to hit a GMRS Repeater on Mt Lemmon near Tucson from Sun City West that is northwest of Phoenix. The air miles between the two points is at least 110 miles. The Larsen Glass-mount antenna is connected to a Motorola XTL5000 remote with 48 watts and the Laird Phantom is connected to a Motorola XPR5550e with 44 watts.

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Funny story (since the statute of limitations has long expired) - in the mid-1980's a fellow ham and I drove his lemon yellow Vista wagon (think "That 70's Show") to Ohio, which was the closest place to buy legal fireworks at the time. We picked up an entire car full of commercial-grade ones (packed to above the window lines), put some blankets over them and drove back to New Jersey. Just after crossing the Delaware River back into NJ, the car conked out (again, think "That 70's Show"). We had a bag phone and called for a tow to bring us the whole 60 miles back to Wyckoff, NJ. We kept getting "helpful" police pulling over and asking us if we needed help, and we were "Nope - all good - called for a tow" and showed them (newfangled at the time) Mobira bag phone to distract them. The tow truck finally came and brought us to Wyckoff. We paid the tow truck driver and let him take whatever he wanted of the fireworks as a tip. We had enough to last several years. The second year, 2 friends and I went in a windowless van to see the official Holmdel (near Bell Labs) fireworks show. We thought the official show was pretty lame, and had a van full of fireworks, so... we set up our own show behind the bleachers. The people putting on the official show began to notice that people in the bleachers were looking behind the bleachers at our better show, and eventually some burly guards came strolling over. We packed up everything into the van and took off back to the house in Holmdel. As we were driving away, I remarked to my two friends that "I just realized I've become the person my parents warned me about".

I have been able to make contacts on the KCARC-Gold MT repeater 462.6000 (RPT-03) on my radio. Now when I press the PPT it does not TX. On other channel when I press PPT, it stays in TX mode and when I release the key I can RX or if a repeater I get get the response. I cannot see where I might have made a change in the set up.

It seems like this year everyone buying illegal fireworks got a buy 1 get 50 free deal. All night last night and thru most of the day.. Boom Boom Boom.. Less aerial flashy stuff but a lot of a aerial booms this year..

LMR Services certified transmitters do not have to be certified for Part 95 services in order to be legally used on Part 95 freqs. Part 95.335(a) allows the use of LMR transmitters on Part 95 services providing that the user operates that LMR transmitter in accordance with the Part 95 rules and regs insofar as freq tolerance, power output, bandwidth, etc. The use of my Motorola radios on GMRS freqs is totally legal if I do not exceed the power and frequency limitations described in Part 95, subpart E, and they don't need to be Part 95 certified.

Happy 4th of July WEEKEND!!! Saw my town fireworks display a week ago when they hold the fair. Went to my BILs for the 4th and my sisters for the 5th for outdoor parties. Great weather both days. Did work for 2 hours on the 4th because.. It's just Friday. Let the fireworks fly.

Thank you very much!!

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PMR (Professional Mobile Radio) is basically the European version of LMR

Then what is PMR?

LMR will be for the entire business frequency pool.

I recently purchased a used ICOM F-6020 and have successfully programmed it using the ICOM software. On the menu bar of the software there is a selection for “Model” LMR or PMR, I can find nothing in the software or owners manual that addresses this setting. I did my programming with the LMR selection which seemed to be the default. Radio seems to work fine but was just curious what the difference between the 2 settings are. Anybody? Anybody? Beuler? thanks for any advice. WRWN495

I know the last post was almost a year ago. I just received my RA86 with an antenna upgrade over the little one. Here is my findings. It comes with privacy tones pre-programmed. You can delete them by turning the radio on while holding the PTT and Scan buttons. You can program up to 99 channels, simplex or repeater. After programming repeaters, you need to turn on the repeater function from any channel. I programmed some public safety frequencies, but the RA86 will not allow the program to install the transmit frequency. This is where labeling the channel would be nice, but it doesn't have the capability. The setting scan is done from the microphone. If you update the radio, you have to start over and set the scan and repeater functions. Scroll using the menu button and change the selected setting with the volume buttons, press menu again, and then wait for it to time out. I downloaded both the programming software and driver from the Retevis website. I needed the driver for the programming software to work.

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Best wishes for you 521. I'm glad you are here to post.

100 miles is nothing. There is one of the Queen's favorite viewers in California that can do 200 miles with ease. Seriously, the average terrain elevation in the area of the Maljamar is somewhat flat and approximately 4,000 AMSL and the Maljamar repeater site appears to be sitting at the 4,121 ft level. With the curvature of this great planet and the fact that the propagation of the UHF signal essentially requires a " Line-of -Sight", I highly doubt that the area of coverage footprint is anywhere near a hundred miles. You would essentially, need a site approx. 10-13K in elevation above the average elevation of 4K to have the range of 100 miles with an UHF signal. Even a microwave control path, peak to peak would have difficulties in making it that distance because of the earth curvature. In this case, the 100 mile range of this site is very arbitrary.