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I would be VERY careful taking a two-way radio to most countries. While it's "safer" to take Ham gear you can still run into issues. You get stopped for inspection the custom agent is going to ask a lot of questions about why you have it. Without proper documentation you might end up getting your radio confiscated on the spot. In some countries it's not even legal to "monitor" communications you're not licensed to use! One example is the UK. https://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtlaws_may04.html I wouldn't even consider taking a radio to Mexico. The police might think you're a cartel member. Any cartel member seeing your two-way radio might think you're an under cover cop or rival cartel member. Either way you could get shot.

You might want to consider up-sizing the coax to LMR-600 for that long length.

Laird 4605 on house and DB404 on Garage/Shop.

Probably 100' total.

WRQC527 what do you care if we talk about what ails us???? Some day you will be the one complaining. We don't care if you don't like it either so why don't you get out your crayons and draw your mommie another picture.

If you do take the radio, be sure you wear it on your belt.

It seems that is the same mindset of the clowns who keep kerchunking the local repeater and demonstrating their many different Roger beeps.

Not a legal issue here in North Carolina. State law classifies such as either 1) Lost property, 2) Misplaced property, or 3) Abandoned property, and there are specific legal rights or responsibilities that go to the finder with each. The moral issue, on the other hand, is more vague. 99.99% of the time if you ask the cable guy if he lost a $300 roll of cable the answer is going to be "yes". The other 0.01% of the time the answer is going to be "hell yes".

Who cares what you use or how you mix it. If I found out something like that upset some jerk on the radio I’d do it 10xs more. It’s non of their business. I’d make my own and mix all 3.

I agree with nokones...everything. When I key my Boo-fang UV-5R to talk, the right click menu on my wireless Bluetooth mouse pops up on my computer screen.

After years in the military after having NATO beat into my skull...Alpha Bravo, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Then I left the military and went into law enforcement where NATO was "frowned upon" and APCO required .. Adam Boy, William Tom Frank. Now I get beat up by "some sad people" for often inadvertently mixing the two ... Alpha Boy I mean Bravo, William I mean Whiskey Tango Frank, I mean Foxtrot. Just what I need. Another phonetic alphabet.

whoa whoa whoa there guy. Don't spoil it for those of us who like to hear about some random strangers prostate exam results on the air.

It can take up to a week. My belief is that there’s a weekly update of the my GMRS database. I think you’ll be recognized within the next two days.

I want to give a little update on my TYT TH-7800 and Wouxun KG-1000G after a couple of months of running my Yaesu FTDX10 HF radio at the same time as using the other radios. The TYT TH-7800 picks up quite a bit of interference from the FTDX when transmitting on digital modes and talking on the TH-7800 at the same time. Depending on the frequencies/bands, the interference is anything from a slight buzz to sounding like I am doubling with someone. The Wouxun KG-1000G does not suffer from any of the interference issues caused by my FTDX. I wanted to mention it for those that have their amateur and GMRS licenses and want to run digital modes on a HF radio while talking on a UHF/VHF radio at the same time.

That makes perfect sense.

What is the hurry? I mean really. You’re in a big hurry to find local repeaters and ask for access from them from the private owners that may or may not even get back to you. Just slow down. Take a breath and wait. It’s really not a big deal. You may ask for access to a repeater and you may never hear back. No one even has to give you access. So you could be weeks or more away. I’d suggest you start listening to local traffic and see if you can make simplex contacts. Remember gmrs really Is for friends and family. For bringing your own contacts not for rushing a privately owned site to get access to privately owned repeaters.

I definitely would not use cable/satellite TV coax for UHF frequencies to include GMRS. Most satellite TV installations use RG6 cable. RG6 will have more loss than RG8. RG8/RG213 is generally used for the HF bands and not suitable for UHF. https://forums.mygmrs.com/topic/252-cable-types-and-losses/page/5/#comment-69960

Final update: The 102” whip with the slim jim was too cumbersome to be “portable”, so i moved the so-239 bulk head to the top of the case and i now use a Nagoya NL-R2 instead. Then i widened the hole where the so-239 use to be and installed a water proof cig plug socket for solar charging. This project is now complete.

I should. I'll have to slate some time for it when I'm done traveling. It's an XTL5000. I have 3 of them. Two UHF and one VHF. All 110w units. I run the w7 heads because I love the old-school look and feel.

You trying to release your radio back into the wild? Lol

Probably watched someone on Youtube remove one..Thusly voiding the warranty.

I had to look through several sites, most say nothing at all about the antenna or optional antennas, but found this directly on the Baofengtech site: Q: Is the antenna removable? A: Certification requires the stock antenna to be an integral part of the radio. The GMRS-PRO antenna is permanently glued in place and tampering with the antenna will void the radio’s warranty. What made you think it WAS removable? I have no plans to purchase one, so no first hand experience with that model...

Holy antenna farm Batman! My wife thought i had a lot of antennas on the garage. 102” whip for CB J-Pole for GMRS VHF whip for MURS Little scanner antenna.

Interesting point on the human body. But I suspect that human tissue is quite lossy at these freqs. I know for sure that it is lossy at 800MHz and also at 150MHz, so most likely also at 460MHz. Way back in the stone age at Motorola, with one way pagers, remember those....there was a model called the PageBoy II. It had a short hairpin antenna around the outside of the case that when belt worn would couple the magnetic field to the RF currents running along the length of the body. But it should be noted that although this was the "best" position on the human body, that this was still lossy compared to free space for example. It was assumed that the pager would mostly be worn on the body somewhere, and on the belt near the center of a 6ft tall person was typical, and at 150MHz a 6ft person is around 1/2 wavelength tall. Thus near the center of this 1/2 wave lossy body is where the current is maximum, thus the PageBoy II antenna would couple to that. Just a tad of history for you history folks

I'd be interested to see what sensitivity your Mot radio shows. Which model is it anyways?