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My parents still use a 49MHz cordless phone system in their house. I never looked at what type is was before until just a couple months ago when we switched them from AT&T's rape job $110/mo landline to a $6/mo VOIP service. My dad just got some new batteries for the handsets last year!

Tough crowd, no. Just a lot of selfish and self centered mindsets.

I am seriously considering it. As I stated previously, my location is really not ideal for what I am trying to accomplish but it is worth a go. Tough crowd in this room. I am simply trying to help out my neighbors.

Let me see if I am understanding this correctly. You deploy a repeater on a frequency that is open to anyone that paid for a valid FCC license and you act like you own the frequency? Really? How are you going to stop licensed squatters using your repeater? It's people with your mindset that put up a repeater and never use it, or very rarely, and the first to complain about interference when someone puts up a repeater on the same frequency and uses it. Totally mind boggling. Oh, and if I were local to you I would use your repeater for free until you accepted me or shut it down every time I got on it.

I'm not sure about the milk & honey, but we do have a lot of pucker bushes and giggly weeds and plenty of means to get dirty. I left the same State you're speaking of that is to my left 6 years ago and I haven't looked back nor will I go back and visit. I'm glad I made the move and should have done it sooner.

This sounds like a beautiful and glorious land of milk and honey! Literally where we have been house-shopping & planning for when we make our escape from my current State.

I live approx. 25 miles northwest of Phoenix in "Old People Country" a.k.a. "Limber Dick Acres" where every time your hear a siren there is going to be a future Golf Car For Sale on the near corner and an Estate Sale, which is near a gazillion Jeep trails, and I am able to hit an analog wideband GMRS repeater approx. 80 air miles away that is southeast of Phoenix with a 40 watt XPR5550e on an analog narrowband channel using a Laird Phantom on my 23 Wrangler "IZARUBICON" 2 Dr. that is mounted on the hood just in front of the A Pillar/windshield. The radio does not have the wideband entitlement so I am regulated to just narrowband emissions for that radio which is not my primary GMRS and UHF radio. The radio is my primary DMR and Digital Channel radio. My primary GMRS and UHF radio is my XTL5000 Remote Mount. Also, I have a XTL2500 VHF remote mount with the base load 2 db omni antenna on a bracket on the side of the hood near the cowl/A Pillar and I am able to hit a low-level repeater on a four-story building approx 40 air miles away looking around the side of South Mountain. It appears that I fail way short for qualifying for the 200 mile club. I guess, I have more work cut out for me to make that happen and so I can hang with and shoot UHF skip for 200 miles away to anonymous "some people". Umm, maybe I don't.

If you’re gonna be purchasing radios or anything in life, it’s a good idea to learn how to do your own research into things. I quick internet search would have answered the question and you would have felt good doing something for your self. Instead you had to be spoon fed by mother goose. In the time it took to post your post you could have had the answer all my your self.

I have this antenna and found the NGP to be false advertising. Not sure why they're saying that. I have an all fiberglass body '73 K5 Blazer and mounted this behind the tailgate off the steel bumper, and SWR was 2.9:1 on HAM UHF, 3.1:1 on GMRS, 2.2 on VHF. Put a ground plane under it (cookie sheet) and SWR never got over 1.5 on any band. It's a great antenna,with a ground plane. I actually called Diamond on this very point because DX is the only place that says NGP, nobody else says that about this antenna, Diamond says it will work, but not recommended, your results may vary, check your SWR...all the expected responses. Basically, it wasn't designed by them as NGP. If your SWR is good, then that's awesome for you! You may be getting some GP still off your steel bed where you have it mounted though.

Dang.... that woulda been soooooo much better than mine....LOL WSHS666 Here...

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You pay for 1/2 and you can use it too. A repeater is for public use if the owner decides it is, not you. Not like the phone company gives their service away from the goodness of their hearts. They make you pay for it and have a contract with them for the most part. And it's not like I'm interfering with the airways with my 5-10 minutes of communication with my wife per day. It's essentially invisible for the most part. And if someone decides to use it without permission I can change tones, it's simple enough. You don't get that it's other peoples property. The airwaves are free, but the equipment is privately owned.

did you find the public notice on this?

According to the BTech website page for this radio, yes: Scanning Receiver (136-174.99MHz (VHF) 400-520.99MHz (UHF))

Yep, that's what I do. All those closed repeaters ID every once in a while.

That's just pure selfishness. You want to keep in touch with family use the cell phone. A repeater is for public use on GMRS. Plus, how are you gonna stop someone from using it? Deploying a closed repeater is totally and utterly foolish and breaks every terrestrial and celestial boundary of human stupidity.

Hello. New GMRS user here. I have been using a portable GMRS radio but want a mobile radio for my truck to use as well for better range. With the BTECH 20V2, would I be able to program ham (VHF) channels to use listen only? I like to be able to listen to ham traffic, especially during disasters or storms. Thanks in advance.

Please keep asking your questions and ignore the noise. There is not one among us that knew it all starting out, and probably not one among us that knows it all now.

Exactly. When I lived in VA near Lake Anna/Louisa, I was on a hilltop surrounded with tall trees. I hung a 2m ground plane up in the top of one of the trees, 70' AGL. I normally used this with my 50 watt house-bound mobile and had great range in all directions. The Bluemont 2m repeater is on Mt Weather, VA and about 75 miles from my former residence. They often commented on the nets that I was their furthest check-in. Hitting the repeater with the 50 watt unit was a given, and I once hooked my 5 watt VX7r HT to that antenna and was able to talk to Bluemont with it.

Ya, that's pretty sad for QC. Must have had a whole run of them that came off the line non functional transmit. My record is much better but I've had 2 replaced out of 14 bought.

Not field complaints to the FCC but the individual that was issued a license they didn't like, called the FCC and had the call terminated and reissued. I looked at two of the recent "terminated" license's by FRN and they have a new and current GMRS licenses.

My record with them is bought 5 sent 4 back for no output. The one working one is awesome though haha

Just run open tones and you can listen to everything.

if a GMRS Lic is revoked due to complaints then the FCC would also post the actual infractions along with who and why the the Lic was revoked. According to the video guy here, the FCC has only issued 4 violations on GMRS/CB radio recently. I would bet CB radio was 90% of those violations.

Last summer i discovered a couple GMRS repeaters operating in/near Fresno, Ca using digital mode that were not registered on this site. I've also heard some Gigital repeaters operating on GMRS in/near Phoenix and Salt Lake not registered as well. Some GMRS folks take their privacy serious and obviously dont want their idenity known. .