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I do agree with Michael about carrying with the 15.4 inch antenna. I mounted my radio on the passengers hand rail and antenna goes to the windshield. MacJack

Yea, I had to install way in the back. Its setup so I can hotswap between the CS800D and the 400XDR. I did the firmware update, and haven't had any APRS issues. Still fine tuning the settings, I have ambiguity set to 2 places, going to bump it down to 1 and see how it goes. I thought you grabbed general already. My bad, you can still play 10m USB with your tech. I liked the tarheel because it does 6m through 80m, and mobile I will never exceed 100w. Its not cheap, but its not that expensive when compared to others and the performance is supposedly great. I've been troubleshooting the power issue, both on Radio Reference and Groups.IO. I may be calling Yaesu support if the new cable doesn't fix it.

Did you end up getting this handled? Even with that, I still had to make a bracket to attach the head bracket to the car.

I will through in my two cents on this one. I too own the 771G and take no issues with it. But admittedly I have stopped using it as I have reported before. The reason being is its size. I did do some on-air comparisons between my radio’s stock antenna back-to-back after I received it and perceived an increase in range of perhaps 5-10%. What this translates too ultimately is that if you are on the absolute fringe of another radio having it may make the difference between whether you hear only noise or just barely hear audio, and the same for others listening to you. If you are not on the fringe you and others may not notice any difference whatsoever. While I am glad to have it as a backup/spare, for an everyday carry user the performance increase does not adequately offset the inconvenience of the longer whip where an how I use it. YMMV. The point being, don’t expect night-and-day performance differences. Get one, but expect relatively minor, just barely noticeable differences only when in the fringe area of another radio. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

Couldn't resist quoting ya. LoL. I have heard pretty much the same so yeah, it is what is it.... Glad you were able to return the knock off. I have seen enough video's and comments about Amazon Nagoya's that I'll bid my time for buytwowayradios . Thanks for the reply!

I saw similar with the dual band gp1 I have for the ham side, 2.1 ish in 462 and above 3 to 1 on 467. Similarly less than optimal results with the Midland 5/8 wave gmrs antenna for 70cm. That said, my mobile is a 5/8 over 5/8 wave browning uhf antenna, rated for 410-490mhz, rather than a gmrs specific antenna...when I checked that one recently related to another topic, it showed 1.1 in 462 (462.5625, 462.725), and 1.12 on 467.725

This topic brings back a memory from the very early 1980's when I was young. My dad was a semi driver all his life and back then we lived in a trailer. He had a CB base station with a tower and a fiberglass CB antenna. Which the antenna came in two sections with a metal couple in the middle and had a metal tip. One night there was a nasty lightning storm. That night lightning hit the CB antenna blowing it up in little tooth pick pieces. Few days later we found the metal couple fused together and found the metal tip in the cornfield like 200 yards away.

I just made this one! GMRS resonant! ugly, unlike yours, but it works!!!

That is a great install! I wonder... would that be a great topic to start? Titled: "Show me your install?" A place where people can show off how they have tackled installations. Of course, only if it has not already been done.