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Roughing it has gotten a lot easier. Reminds me of people claiming to go camping when they really me glamping.
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They have rest stops/charging stations along the trail, one at least.. I happened across one in the Holcomb Valley above Big Bear while off-roading a few months ago. primitive bathrooms, shower, and solar panels/batteries and hookups for charging.
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Does Power Output Matter? (Hint: NO!)
WRUE951 replied to OffRoaderX's question in Technical Discussion
I think the only thing that matters using high power on an HT is it will drain your battery 5 times faster then low power. -
Surprisingly a lot of hikers use GMRS. Living here in the desert with an eye site of Mt. Whitney 75 mile out, I hear hikers up there all the time. They hang out on Ch 3, 7 and 18 and obviously on HT’s. I also pick up traffic from hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail. I’m assuming they use some type of portable solar to keep their radios and cell phones charged.charged up.
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New to GMRS and looking for a better antenna..
WSIZ258 replied to WSIZ258's topic in General Discussion
well.. some moderate success tonight. I heard a few more folks, one on a repeater and another on Simplex. However, I couldn't get a response when I asked for a signal check. I have my R and T DCS tones set, and I'm using channel mode (not VFO), but no responses. My daughter took one of the radios to another part of the house and we tried simplex, and that worked... I'll just keep trying the repeater over the next few days. Thanks for the help all. -
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Over use of call sign announcements on GMRS
LeoG replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
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WRUE951 replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
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LeoG replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
Troublemaker. -
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OffRoaderX replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
Someone should make a video on Youtube explaining how simple it is to do... -
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LeoG replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
Front page doesn't show it. You have to click on the linked license ID to get the address. So my bad. -
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Over use of call sign announcements on GMRS
LeoG replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
I'm sparse with my call sign only because I'm lazy. If I'm telling my wife "I'm on the way home" I might not even say it. But usually because I said it earlier when she called me to ask when I might be heading home. And most don't know how to look up a license ID to make it into an address. I think when you go to the FCC site it doesn't give out the address only the name. I know here the lookup tells you everything. -
11.76dB 4w > 60w
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SteveShannon replied to OffRoaderX's question in Technical Discussion
4 to 60 watts is nearly 11 dB. (4 to 40 is 10 dB). -
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UncleYoda replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
There are more important concerns with GMRS use. -
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OffRoaderX replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
They have a mental/emotional defect that makes them crave power and control - often because in their life, they have none. -
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amaff replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
It kind of seems to me like so many GMRS users are eager to police what other people do on the air. Why? -
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OffRoaderX replied to SvenMarbles's topic in General Discussion
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It kind of seems to me like so many social GMRS users are eager to shout out their call signs on the air. Why? is it like a radio-cool thing? Or you just genuinely want to shout out your home address to goobers with mustard stains on their shorts? It’s also legal to run it off in fast CW and ASSUREDLY no GMRS users would know how to deal with it. Legal. Your license situation is between you and the FCC. You don’t need to share it with every mouth breather on the air…
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If not friend, then why friend shaped? I think people underestimate moose, too. Saw a female moose and calf at a ski resort in Utah during the summer and the employees were trying to keep people far away from them. They are absolutely massive and have no problems stomping someone who gets too close.
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New to GMRS and looking for a better antenna..
UncleYoda replied to WSIZ258's topic in General Discussion
If you're keying in the frequency, then you're probably on a channel that has transmit disabled or in VFO mode where some radios also have transmit disabled. Kerchunk is the sound you hear from the repeater when you press and release the push-to-talk button. -
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All valid reasons.
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More elegant.. easier to move around, less hassle, less wires.. Most important: higher wife-acceptance factor when using on the kitchen table.
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Does Power Output Matter? (Hint: NO!)
nokones replied to OffRoaderX's question in Technical Discussion
....penetration....penetration with or without lubrication, it won't change the price of noodles in Pandaland -
I was in Sequoia a week or two ago and as we were driving around we came up on several people pulled off the road looking at a baby/small bear just off the road... Everyone was in their car.. except for ONE non-english speaking (spoke Russian or something) woman.. and her TODDLER trying to walk up to the bear to get pictures... Every time they got within about 5 yards the bear would trot away... I left before momma-bear came out to teach her a lesson about Darwin.