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Either that, or ... someone here casually mentioned his GMRS callsign (which he had tried to hide after he got run-off the site last time).. Then everyone looking it up and seeing sh!thole where he lives, his full legal name, and pretty much everything else about him... He got real quiet right after that..

Sounds like it might just be down then. Or they changed the input tone. Do you hear other traffic on that repeater?

That seems really un-good. Even sitting in a hot car, in the sun, it shouldn't be hitting close to the boiling point of water.

I just figured enough people had him blocked to where I wasn't even seeing replies to him anymore

you buy it that way. some of the popular $hit hit the fan radios came wide open, but i don't think they are coming that way anymore. Google $hit hit the fan Wouxuan and see if that helps. Send the sellers a private message (emial) and ask if you can buy a radio out to 520. Good Luck

Thank you both, I have tried shouting my call-sign and have not gotten a response. Went up to the place the repeater is located again and used one radio to call the other using the simplex GMRS22 channel and was able to reach it (from 11.9 miles one radio inside my home the other in the truck) but using the repeater it did nothing. I am glad both radios are working as they should using the simplex channels, this is the main reason I got them, will continue to try and establish communication with another repeater when I am near one.

up to a few weeks ago you could use Excel to extract data from the site using simple Excel tools but the owner has since locked down his site stopping these Excel tools. However there are still other tools available, some open source, that will continue to work and allow the extraction process. You will need to learn how to use compliers with these tools but they work perfect.. Google HTML data capture and look for open source tools. Lots of youtube videos out there too. Note that it will also me handy if you know how to write macros as this will speed up process of sorting. Good Luck!

Hopefully, Jeff Bezos is back from Venice.

The radio does have a thermal-shutdown.. so if gets too hot for any reason, it will throttle-back and then stop transmitting all-together.. Wait for it to get cold tonight and then try it again.. if still no joy, send it back to the guy you got it from and tell him to send you one that works.

I banned his ars

<Sigh> it wasn’t even turned on. It was plugged into the cig lighter though. Noticed this last week when the truck was outside in the sun too. Thought it might be ambient heat that it couldn’t dissipate (but it wa off then too). Would you expect it to still transmit?

Too bad our GMRS friend from So.Cal isn't around anymore, he always hit repeaters in Arizona, over 200 miles away... ..whatever happened to that guy anyway?

With the experience I had with one of those (worked for a few days then just wouldn't receive *anything*...worst radio I've ever owned.) I'm going to go out on a limb and say "it's probably the radio." Those things suck, unfortunately, because it's a cool concept, with everything in the handset including a useful screen.

I'm not getting anything either. But I'm in Connecticut.

You will need to use two antennae, one for the 70cm freqs and one for GMRS. You should mount each antenna on the side of each cowl nead the "A" Pillar using the Rugged Radios mounting brackets and NMO mounts. Don't use thd cheap stuff get the Laird Mount and Cable from a reputable Radio Electronics Dealer. As for the GMRS antenna since it appears you are only concerned with GMRS for the trail, you should get thd Midland MXTA25 or the MXTA26. Attached is a picture of my Highband VHF antenna on the side near the cowl and "A" Pillar. Also attached is a Laird Lip Mount NMO mount I use for my UHF DMR freqs. The Phantom antenna is a Laird. Just make sure that the mounts have chassis ground continuity without the coax cable connected to the radio.

They have arrived

If you are licensed amateur there are lists showing which countries the US has reciprocal agreements with regarding operating privileges. There is an official notice along with your license you need to carry with you also. You may need to get an Icelandic call sign also while operating in their country.

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I would say that the radio took a dump. The radio should not be 200 degrees unless you kept it keyed for an extremely long time.

New radio, new questions. I’ve set up a new BTech radio in my truck to use as mobile comm. Today I wanted to see what kind of output I would get on a larger base antenna. I connected it to the Surcomm with the appropriate adapter. At first, I tried it on channel 16 and it was registering close to 19 W. Then I went to channel 23 to see how frequency would affect output. It briefly showed the output still approximately 19W. But then it went blank. There was no reading. When I went back to 16, no measurements. I then hooked the meter to an HT that I had and it seemed to work fine. Went back to the mobile and I could not get the meter to read the output or SWR from the mobile unit. I do want to say that the BTech was extremely hot (Close to 200°F) but I did check it with the truck running, with the truck off and with radio connected to a power bank with no readings. I changed the adapter cord as well. I took the mobile unit out, put a fan on it to try and cool it to see if that made a difference and it did not. I am able to communicate with an HT on channel 16, so I know it is outputting something, but it does not read on the meter. Any thoughts on if it’s the meter, the radio, or something else?

You'll have issues trying to accomplish this with a single antenna that is limited to 18" (or so). You can use the location for a GMRS antenna, but the 2m/70cm antenna for the Kenwood will be much taller. Reason being is that you don't really have a good ground plane. With GMRS you can get away with using a 1/2λ (wave) antenna. It won't require a ground plane to be efficient, and they easily meet your height requirement (about 10-11" tall). For the 2m/70cm antenna to get one that's 18" it's going to need a ground plane. A model like the Comet SBB2NMO will actually cover* the 2m/70cm and GMRS (both simplex and repeater inputs), but it is a 1/4λ for 2m, and 5/8λ for 70cm. Both of which need a good ground plane. For the 2m/70cm if you went taller (40") you could get something like the Comet SBB5 or Diamond NR770HBNMO (basically the same antenna), which for 2m is 1/2λ and for 70cm it is 5/8λ over 5/8λ, so no ground plane required. However it is 40" tall (with a fold-over mount). *This is speaking from personal experience, as I have both the Diamond and the Comet SBB2NMO. The Comet is on the trunk of a car, close to the edge where it meets the rear window, but I am directional to the sides and rear of the car. It is fine for population dense areas with lots of repeaters, though its performance is compromised going towards the front of the car (no ground plane). When traveling (road trips) I swap in the Diamond and being directional is no longer a factor.

I noticed a lot depends on the software I'm using. In CHIRP I enter 462 and it automatically adds the +5 offset to correct the TX to 467. With the Baofeng Factory software I have to manually enter the 467 TX and 462 RX. Even with everything correct I'm not getting any returns from anyone so maybe no one is monitoring the Repeaters.

This is the part that everyone wants an answer to, because it makes zero sense.

For citizens using radios in a foreign country, you should contact the United States Embassy and ask them that question. In some countries, Personal and Business Radio Services freqs may not be used for the same radio services in the other countries. The Amateur Radio freqs might be a different story. I'm not as smart as a Amateur Radio Operator, so I don't how that works in other countries regarding HAM freqs. For governments visiting and using radios in foreign countries, I had to contact the United States Embassy Regional Security Officer (RSO) in that respective country and get a channel assignment from the ITAC800 Channel pool.

how do you know or what makes you think what you are hearing on ch 4 is a repeater?