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Motorola CDM1550-LS+, surplus from commercial market use and re-tooled for GMRS. The Astron power supply is a little bit "overkill" but I often add a second radio to these Astron power supplies. Usually there will be a VHF radio stacked underneath a UHF version used as a base-station in my world.

This came from the practice of stacking radios in the military, having the lower radio being lower frequency. VHF-Lo, then VHF Commercial/Military, and (Motorola) UHF band 1, then UHF band 2, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, etc. 

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Sweet!  I have a CDM1250 setup for my GMRS base station using a Motorola power supply. 

In my truck I run a PM400 for GMRS. My wife’s car gets a CP200 with speaker mic (she likes the smaller handful) with a quarter wave spike on the roof.

I use CP200s for portables and there’s a CP200XLS, a PR400 or two, and some EX500s in reserve. 

Reliable gear all around. 

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Similar type of setup here as well:

I used a Vertex VX-3200 UHF for GMRS for many years in my previous car, with a VHF one mounted right on top, fit my old Pontiac Grand Prix perfectly (was a police package car) bought for business use. They fit where the cubby hole would have been in the dash. However, with a new car, I ended up getting a Radioddity DB20-G for mobile use. Having VHF and UHF in the same radio is great.

Portables varies between Anytone 878's, some HT1250's, and an XPR6550. Somewhere there is a GM-30 and HT750's. Motorola radios make for some great GMRS units.....that may be the end game for many that become surplus at work. Maybe even get a few more people using them and joining this site at some point too. Thank you for the response.

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2 hours ago, PACNWComms said:

Similar type of setup here as well:

I used a Vertex VX-3200 UHF for GMRS for many years in my previous car, with a VHF one mounted right on top, fit my old Pontiac Grand Prix perfectly (was a police package car) bought for business use. They fit where the cubby hole would have been in the dash. However, with a new car, I ended up getting a Radioddity DB20-G for mobile use. Having VHF and UHF in the same radio is great.

Good stuff ? Attachment isn't working, but it's my vhf and uhf vx4200's on my desk (ham use, but it's an antenna switch and a zone change from gmrs) and one of the exv539. (2 g7, 1 g6). The UHF was in the truck, but made way for a dual band.

 

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