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Mostly Jeeping in the mountains of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/HardRock/Rubi_W_Lift.jpg http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/RauschCreek/June_2018/images/20180616_115106.jpg http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/RauschCreek/June_2018/images/Image12.jpg

If you are within warranty and it is a hardware failure - BTECH would repair the radio for free: https://baofengtech.com/product-repair If you haven't tried I would contact BTECH first

Love the Power Wagons . . .

The FCC just issued a notice of violation to Traffic Control Services for unlicensed operation on LMR and GMRS frequencies in 4 mid-Atlantic sates. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-357545A1.pdf

I miss being out west. Almost unlimited wheeling. And generally people took care of what we had. OHV parks arent my cup of tea but thats all we have in Texas. Public land is a rarity here. I spend a lot of time in Arkansas around the Ouachita Ntl Forrest. Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

DB-404 in the attic of my 2 story condo, simplex base to base 25 miles and repeaters 45 miles. http://mwgmrs.com/mygmrs/uhfbase2.jpg Fed with 1/2 hardline http://mwgmrs.com/mygmrs/hole.jpg Into a custom wall plate with N female bulkheads. I have a UHF, VHF and Scanner antenna up there. http://mwgmrs.com/mygmrs/wallplate.jpg http://mwgmrs.com/mygmrs/scanner.jpg http://mwgmrs.com/mygmrs/vhf.jpg

Agreed! My daughter lives in AZ. It's awesome out there. Rausch Creek is about the best it gets on the east coast. It's pretty sad how people ignore "pack it in, pack it out". You are right; it just spoils it for others.

Thank you for the review. Informative!

Get a number of regular GMRS operators with 50 watt mobile or base to make their pitiful HTs cry...

Corey, yur a spendy Hmm give you a quarter and get 3cents change.

Power wagon is a Dodge, not a Jeep.

Yes, you can pretty much do whatever you want with their programming software. Here is an example. I don't really have it programed this way, but look at channel 16.

Sounds like another decoder issue. I have got wind of this issue from several users of this unit. This is caused by overloading the front end, or simply being to close to a base or repeater. This is what cheap hardware gets you, in order to cut costs you have to cut quality and engineering. For the record it can be repaired but in the end its not worth it. I don't know about others but my min charge is an hr and that is more then the radio costs new.

I have to know, why are you so set on a repeater like this? Unless a Manufacture knows its going to sell 100's of units its not going to put the time and money into this. Even construction sites that only need a repeater for a few blocks install full size repeaters simply for the duty cycle and reliability. Now in the part 90 world you can have your self a Motorola SLR1000 these do analog or DMR and are made to be tower mounted. This is all deal breakers for your wish list, its not part 95 and it will set you back $1900 but hey it is "new". I have state of the art SLR5700's in use on a business system and many 15 year old MTR 2000's in use on GMRS. For the record the SLR5700's I own (2 @ $2200 each) have given me more issues in 2 years than 10 USED MTR2000 have in 4 years. In fact one needs to go back to the depot for repair again! NEW is not always better, the list price on a NEW MTR2000 was upward of $8000 so I am more then happy to run a USED $8000 repeater I got for $800 bucks or less vs a NEW machine I paid $800 to $1000 for. In your price point and requirement of off the shelf and legal I envision this big lunch box size FRS/GMRS radio with a 4' telescopic center loaded antenna and a rechargeable battery inside. I'm sure adding a solar panel and maybe a dynamo crank to charge the battery, a local mic, weather channels, maybe even a flashlight and an AM/FM radio will help sell more to the masses. This all sounds good (ha ha) but an off the shelf turn key repeater marketed as part 95 for GMRS is just a bad idea. Last thing we need is 100's of unlicensed repeaters all over the place with kids on them causing interference to real repeaters that people invested time and money into. If you need an example just look at all the FRS/GMRS combo radios that never got a licence and the FCC just made them licence by rule, again not good for GMRS. This unicorn you have been hunting will work about as good as simplex without an antenna at significant height above ground.