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Except China has already proven they will export to a different country and have stuff imported from there to the US. Remember, China has been falsifying ISO certs for decades. Heck I was literally burned by substandard construction materials.

Yes I have rucked plenty. I was both airborne and air assault qualified, assigned to airborne units. And when my assigned weapon was not the M60, then I would get assigned to carry the PRC-77 radio. So yes I know a thing or two about rucking extra weight. Now go strap on a 75-80 pound ruck sack, carry the M60 machine gun with 1000-1500 rounds of ammunition along with your main and backup parachute before you say anything else about how I supposedly don't know anything about carrying weight. I was also a combat engineer so I carried even more stuff than the average infantryman. And I have done so in combat on a few occasions. Let's break down the weight infantryman ruck -70 pounds combat engineer ruck - 75-80 pounds Main and reserve parachutes - 53 pounds. M60 machine gun unloaded - 23 pounds 500 rounds of spare ammo - 35 pounds 1000 rounds of spare ammo - 42 pounds Those weights didn't even include any explosives or mines I also had to carry. You showed your rear again by assuming that I don't have any experience rucking heavy weights. And we all know what assume actually means.

If you have ever needed to carry a ruck for any length of time you and others would understand my point. If I’m hiking for fun and I just want to hike to the top of the highest peak and talk to strangers I’ve got an ht. It does 60miles easy. If it’s a shtf type of thing I don’t want to waste valuable weight dragging around a radio that will be mostly useless anyway. Your support of this tells me about your life experiences or lack there of. Food water and protection from the weather and people is priority not a useless radio. Besides what type of coax gonna use? Light weight and full of loss? How high and how is an antenna gonna get? one more thing. You’re wearing a bomb. Lithium is not stable. If it charges to much fire. If it discharges to much fire. If you drop it fire. If it gets to hot fire. If it gets to cold fire. See the pattern. Fire bad. So your hiking for the fun of it and you slip and you dont even know you damaged the battery untill your bag is in fire. Then you set the whole mountain on fire. .

Evening I am using CHIRP to program it. Steve

There is nothing wrong with wanting a portable GMRS setup that will put out 20-50 watts. I like using 10 AH or 12AH lipo4 batteries for 20 watt or less radios. Most 10 AH lipo4 are the same size as the batteries in computer battery backup systems. The lipo4 batteries are quite a bit lighter. I like the Redodo brand of lipo4 batteries when it comes to 50 AH or 100 AH batteries. A group 24 lipo4 batterie will be half the weight of a standard group 24 lead acid deep cycle battery. And just ignore Negative Nancy with his negative waves.

And there ya go with the negativity yet again. @WRVK513 If you want an actual Part 95 certified radio then yes the firmware will be locked. And this goes for pretty much all Part 95 certified consumer grade radios. We know plenty of people use non certified amateur band radios that have been unlocked/Mars modded on GMRS, but those radios are not Part 95 certified. And if you don't want a locked down radio then look else where.

Yes

The kg1000 is nothing special especially for the $390 price tag. It doesn’t do any more then a $150 radio does AND what is does do it does rather pourly. And yes it’s locked so it can be “certified” All the wouxons are gimmicks and nothing else Oh except yea some guy in Huntington Beach California programs them with a bunch of shtf junk frequencies very few people want or need he has done a good job at advertising. woxoun is the baufang of china.

I may be wrong, but isn't every new OTC GMRS radio manufactured outside of the US?

i would Love to try one of these radios But I Just Refuse any Thing that is Firmware Locked No Mater How Bad Or Good They Are ! I Like to Have a Choice & Cant Stand it When it Gets Taken Away! I Am Way To Bull Headed to Give in To the Wankers !

I just received my new KG1000G+ UPS TODAY!!

It was a nice thing for him to do. He didn’t lecture anyone; he just tried to make it easier for us. You’ve been grumbling about things lately. Are you becoming infected with the socalgmrs bug?

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 forum 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.