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Few years is more like few months. They develop water ingestion and the foam inside soaks water so things corrode real fast. Verticals tend to shoot out with a vertical takeoff angle, so it will reach very far, but up on the clouds... instead of a gigantic (and usually ineffective) antenna, I would get this for UHF: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133927735178?epid=1941709490&hash=item1f2eb70f8a:g:yowAAOSwIytgUyhQ G.

Sometimes is not that they ignore your calls, but because they have set some PL tones, your call won't even open their squelch.

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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense and sure sounds like my situation. I put it back in it's original location and I'm receiving good, but my transmissions are a bit noisy. I guess for now this will have to do. When warmer weather gets here, I'll experiment a bit more. Thanks again

Could not agree more! Say what you want about dipole arrays being 'old school', but the reality is they work, and work well. Very low angle of radiation (<10 degrees in most cases), last for years in the crappiest conditions and, none of the issues found in the cheap multi-section verticals, all of which as noted, eventually suffer from 'water ingestion'.

I could do that if you want to ship to the west coast. That is if they are equivalent to XPR-4xxx/5xxx/e mobiles. I have TDMA Trbo Autotune. Might be a bit pricey on shipping though right now. My newest Vertex are a handful of VX-3200's analog only, back when Motorola first bought the company. My 3920 does seem to clean up some of the Sunny Comm XPR4550's people buy in this area. (I like the XPR4550 over the XPR5550e as people get into the menu and mess things up on the XPR5550e. Great radio, but too easy for end users to change settings and then get lost in the menu tree.)

Yes, the XiR8668 is a XPR7550, just the model number sold outside of the United States and Canada. It would look the same. In this brochure for Belize and the XiR8668, it shows them with a silver band on the antenna.....those bands come in many colors and are sold as an accessory for marking radios as part of a specific teams or frequency band. An expensive rubber band essentially. The new R7 radio is going to retain the same model number worldwide (R7), and then will need to be regionalized, by connecting it to Motorola Solutions Inc. servers. This will set the region, by loading the appropriate language options. I could take my XPR7550e from the United States to an office in Zhoushan, China and it will work with corporate XiR8668's, mine would just show English language text. (I administer the radio network in Zhoushan as well for my employer.) Chinese language does take a lot of memory in the XPR7550/e/XiR8668 radio though. xir_p8600_bro_ar3-04-001_0412.pdf

I had a good case of ducting once back in Nov. of 1986. I had just moved to my new house in Greenfield (southern NH) and put on the portable TV to test the signal. I was relieved that I was still getting the Boston MA and Manchester NH channels OK - but there was another rock solid channel that I was not familiar with. I watched for a while and it turned out the be Burlington, VT which was shocking. That's 160 road miles away with mountains in between. It just didn't seem possible but there it was - rock solid. I had only moved about 20 miles further up from my old place in Milford NH. I'd never heard of anyone getting Burlington TV around southern NH. It was not a TV repeater channel either. It was the Burlington channel direct. It was probably 9 or 10pm at night. The next morning I tried it again and it was nowhere to be found. Tried it a dozen more times and nothing but blank screen. It was just a case of ducting that came and went. Vince

I was able to get around the issue by resetting the radio back to factory. I know that's the easy way out but, I don't know my radio (just bought) well enough yet. Thank you, Sshannon. -Mike Hauss WRNE562

You're looking at it from the point of view of a normally adjusted person. But sadly, for "some people", this forum IS a matter of honor, treasure AND life & limb.. We all know who they are - but hint, if ^ that sentence just made you angry inside, then, we're talking about you.

Yes, I've been very happy with it.

Appears same as the TRAM 1481 and most likely made by the same china company. Most of the multi piece trams fall apart after a few years. Basically a hoppy antenna. Mine last 2 months in NY before it snapped in the wind. Since them I only use commercial LMR antennas made by reputable companies.

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Configuring scan groups is a function of the factory software. You have 10 scan groups available. Each group can have a single contiguous range of memories associated with it (e.g Channels 1-20, 20-100, 5-20, etc.). Each group has a group number. From the radio you can pick which group you want to scan. That is what the scan group menu allows you to do, select which of those groups you want to scan. You also have the ‘All’ option, which allows you to scan all channels programmed into the radio. Note that you can designate each channel memory to be scan-able or not scan-able. That setting you can change on the radio. The manual for the KG-1000G is light years above every other Wouxun manual, but it still falls short of the ideal. In fact, the distributor had to write it themselves since the manufacturer is not qualified to write an english manual for one of their products. Hope that helps. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM

Menu Item 43 (SC-GROUP). The radios scans whatever scan group you have active in this setting. Michael WRHS965 KE8PLM