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There's more gravy than the grave about him? Naw, Randy's ok (not that he needs me to defend him). He doesn't suffer fools much, he's not afraid to look foolish. He understands moreso than most, I think, that GMRS is not a hobby in the vein that amateur radio is but a communications service designed for local, point to point contacts. His rails against the sad hams of the world is more a fight against pedantic and priggish responses to his YouTube videos; and he has a point there as the SH behavior is rampant on many FB pages and other social media platforms and is doing more to harm that hobby/service than most any other thing. And he does know his GMRS radios! Tests them, calls them as he sees them...

A sense of humor is a handy thing to have on the interwebs. As the Queen of All Things GMRS, he brings information and laughs. The people that don't get that probably have a tough time going through day to day life.

Ok I'm not sure what to think about him but he's facing back lashes for some of his postings. IMHO as far as it goes his attacks calling people sad hams is getting out of control.

Don Rickles made a very nice career insulting people. I hear he was a nice guy in real life.

From the perspective of an amateur radio operator... operator... I love Randy's videos. I even have a paid subscription with him to help contribute in some small way to the equipment testing and content creation. Truth is, his content is funny as hell and very helpful to many, including me. I love that he doesn't take crap from anyone and his socio-political humor is great. I have had the pleasure of having some private chat messages / emails between him and I also... and learned pretty quickly that he is a great guy. People seem to lose track of the point that there is an entertainment persona and then how he is in his day-to-day life. Like my wife reminds me when I start griping about inaccuracies in movies and TV shows... 'It's for entertainment. Just let it go.' LOL

I've never met this Roger Beep, but he sure does get people talking!

NO! Not the fart sound! I got in trouble with a ham club using their 2m linked network once because of that. I was in a conversation and let one rip while I had the mic keyed. The computer system supporting the link read the sound as a digital data burst shut-down command which turned the network off. Talk about a bunch of sad hams!

Hey, you're new and only been a GMRS licensee for 4 months and with a post like that not having any respect for the Queen you more than likely will never make the "Righteous Dude" List.

I’m going to make sure my Roger beep is on so maybe people will actually talk to when I use my radio. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"some people" might even watch that!!! Pooofwang - affiliate link below?

Word is he has his back lashes waxed every Thursday. Edit: show us on this doll where he inappropriately touched your feelings….

Anyone who watches him on YouTube should get that he has nothing against the amateur radio service - He hangs with Josh from HRCC after all, it's the knowitalli'vebeenahamfor30yearsandyou'reanidiotanditwon'twork crowd he likes to send up with the Sad Ham moniker. And they need it! And I have been a ham for 30+ years, believe me I do NOT know it all, hihi.... And I also get that thing from my wife and son when we watch movies! The hand comes up to block the

Most of the people he calls sad hams walk right into it. If you take the time to understand what he’s saying you might even agree. Yup, sometimes he has gone against the grain but for the most part he’s helpful.

He’s probably a figment in of your imagination. Some undigested id.

Sad because the network died, or sad because they didn't think of it first?

Fair, from that picture. 1. yes, and it's literally not a problem. It's got plenty of volume. Most of the time I have it to less than half. And the speaker is mounted under that surface so it's not like it's actually touching the seat. 2. It's not as close as it looks. It's not super clear in the picture but I have the bracket velcroed to the console. So it has the same air-gap to the heat sink as it would mounted to any other surface. So far it's been there a couple months. Maybe I don't spend as much time on the PTT button as others, but even after having a, for me, lengthy conversation, the case was warm but never hot to the touch. Even on high power.

Your cracking me up where I almost blew my coffee out of my nose! LOL

The TD-H3s have 2 different roger beeps. 1 is a traditional 'melody', the other is like that old Motorola noise. Some radios have a 'Repeater Confirmation' or 'Squelch Tail' setting that will, near as I can tell, make the radio transmit an extremely brief burst of static similar to (but not nearly as ear piercing as) the Motorola sound, that I find less annoying. I have a couple of radios that really make zero sound when you let off the PTT that I have used that option on so there's SOME audible indication, without a full on roger beep.

I wouldn't overlook the Midland GXT67 Pro for a GMRS Handheld Portable radio. It would be a better quality radio, than any CCR. Just so you know, it's a simple radio with very few features but definitely will get the job done better in performance. And, you can ask the GMRS queen.

I'm gonna find a way to make a radio that sends a fart sound instead of a roger beep. As soon as I finish cyberattacking the ARRL, that is.

It did dawn on me while reading your reply! It's hell gettin' old.....

Cable loss, and power level. Here's the math part if you care. Lets say that you have 3dB of loss in your feed line to the antenna. So that means that if you are pushing 20 watts into the the cable at the bottom, 10 watts gets to the antenna. Now that same loss happens to the reflected power. If you have 2 watts reflected, then you will only see 1 watt of reflect in the meter. Now lets remove the 20 watt radio and hook up a 4 watt radio. You have 4 in, and 2 at the antenna. You then have .2watts reflect, and .1 watt (100mW) shown as reflected power. The meter will have a hard time even seeing .1 watt of power and doesn't really have the accuracy to correctly measure that small level of power. So it gets inaccurate. Same thing happens with other radio services like ham when you significantly increase the power level. A guy running 100 watts may not see a significant amount of reflect at that power level, but when he increases to 1000 watts, it shows up. This is why when you are using a Bird watt meter to make SWR readings, you use a 1 or 5 watt slug to take the reflected power reading and not the 50 or 100 watt slug you are using for forward power. That 100 watt slug is not going to accurately show you a few watts of reflect. You need a slug that will properly indicate the lower power level. AND, you need to take into account the cable loss for an accurate reading.

Oh, alright...I think that makes sense. Thanks

I have been a ham for a long time. But I have also been a commercial radio tech for half that time. While I have run into a number of hams that seemed to have some level of superiority complex, he seems to have the same complex that is anti-ham. We have butted heads a couple of times on here (yes, he is a member) because he didn't care for my detailed answer on a topic or something to that effect. I don't bother with his videos. But after doing commercial radio for 15 years, if I can't figure out GMRS radio, I need to find a different job.

This OP reads like the rantings of someone who got a pinned comment on one of his videos.

Humm.. clinically depressed? He should do a video on the virtues of Xanax. Have a video of before and after use, sad Ham to a happy Ham.

All I can say is I have learned a lot from him and I think his videos are great. Just like with Ham Radio Crash Course. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Someone should make a video about this on the Youtubes.

My only suggestion would be for you to test for interference with the tape and panel. Not knowing your panel and how it is engineered, I suspect it contains only the electronics needed for the display and speaker. The audio from the microphone is most likely a pass-through, along with any signaling from the keypad.

Just gotta watch his Salton Sea video and some of his old In4Lo stuff to see what he's like in "real life".

Such as?

After reading several of his post I’ve come to the conclusion he’s just a special type of individual. If get my drift.

I don't doubt that it's better but I do question whether or not it's 10 times better.

If your radio has a DTMF Key Pad, maybe you can fake a "Roger Beep" by depressing a couple or few DTMF keys. A 16-button key pad would give a few more options. Another thought would be if you come up with a sequence of numbers to fake the "roger beep" maybe you can program that in your radio as a PT-T ID and Trail it to send out when unkeying.

Should be able to imitate a roger beep with one of the voice keyer memories.

I actually talked to a group last night on my local repeater with my handheld. That was pretty interesting

I can hear people on the repeater no problem

You went to the Wrong band camp !

Great savings for a hearty HT and an awesome mini-mobile! Let me know if you have any DB20-G questions...

I appreciate all of your feedback on this! its good fuel for my brain right now. should have new antenna and setup this week sometime. I'm going to stretch up as far as I can. Again , thank you all!

Lol.. it's po (poh) fung It's the same company always has been. It was slight different productions. Due to how the Chinese characters were interperted. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

It must be a turkey cooking reference: full of stuffing.

Based on all your multiple previous comments about how EVERY person you know dumps EVERY radio (Midland, Retevis, TidRadio, Wouxun) unless that radio happens to be the same brand of radios that you use, it is becoming clear that you don't actually know anyone. ... Or, you are just F.O.S. But either way, your mythomaniac comments are great for pointing at and laughing so keep up the good work!

And has been stated, you are entitled to your views on radios, but those of us who are regulars on this forum are very tired of your rant and claims of hitting repeaters 200 miles away with your handheld.

I always hate when someone is completely incapable of grasping the concept that different people have different wants, needs, and priorities than themselves. The only thing more perplexing than that, is how willing 'some people' are to demonstrate to everyone how they are totally devoid of these basic mental abilities. But.. that's just me...

You don’t. But get ready for a raft of shit.

Me and my Yaesu FTM-6000 with the MARS mod

The 22 FRS frequencies are exactly the same as the first 22 GMRS frequencies. There’s absolutely no difference in the frequencies but there are differences in the power limits. None of the 22 are reserved exclusively for FRS.

All repeaters listed here are connected to the ORN and MYGMRS network. If you are connected via a node assignment list it here (repeater name, Freq, location, and repeater owner) DO NOT list pl tone, if repeater is listed on mygmrs.com include link to the repeater owner directly for members to goto for usage request.

You bought a ham radio, you got a ham radio - no way that I am aware of to change that - Check your Google machine for "Unlock KT8900D" to see if it's possible to unlock it to allow transmitting on other bands.