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We just went through a hurricane and could only communicate via ham and GMRS and my wife still isn't interested.

I'm less worried about my pole falling over than I am about the wind breaking my antenna. I may devise some scheme to lower it so I could put it back up after a storm.

Just exactly how much have you had to drink?

I've used a UV-5R GMRS on wide band with an MP31 and they worked just fine together.

Never mind. I don’t have anything nice to say.

I know the 27 MHz walkie talkies were set to CB channel 14 but man would they mess with all of the 27 MHz remote control cars. I always tried to stick with the 49MHz remote control cars.

That is the best part of it all! My family looks at me and wonders why I mess with radios. I guess I'll need to have a natural disaster happen around here to validate my radios.

Hey, so it did, and better than I had anticipated. Long story short, I got caught up in some of that hurricane carnage that swept through where I was going, and I didn't get to check all of the spots that I wanted to between my limited time there, and dealing with the weather/downed trees/flooding/flat tires. HOWEVER, I am happy to report that the larger range repeater can be pinged from my parents' font porch, and radio checks several miles away also allowed it to be pinged. I wasn't able to hop the mountain to our hunting grounds to see if it can be pinged over there, but from the areas I could hit it, that gives me hope since I was hitting it from further away with a mountain between us. The best news out of all of this is I went down for a wedding, and of course the show must go on right? A lot of out of staters were coming in for this wedding, and the location for it was kind of in the back woods. Some of the family was staying there the night before with the bride and groom to get ready for the wedding in the morning, No cell phone service and downed lines made communication impossible for last minute needs when it comes to the things they left states away. The family was super impressed that I had a set of radios that could communicate just fine across a pretty good distance with no power or cell service needed. All in all, I would say it was a success.

It's an FRS power GMRS on your wrist. I bet kids would love them. I remember walkie talkies in my childhood. They could do 100 feet to 100 yards at the very best. They were big with a huge antenna and the sound quality stunk. This little wristwatch HT would take those old fashion HT to the floor.

I have done tests with people listening to me while I change from narrow to wide and back to narrow. The difference was just not very noticeable.

Yes it is annoying. There is one repeater near me that does not run any tones.

Interesting. I don’t notice that with any of the ones I have. They’re probably all a bit different. I would still recommend them for basic communication or hand out radios.

Maybe they are trying to keep it private.

Because they make a good ground and I have had this for centuries so I decided to use it. There was no ground at the antenna bracket except through the coax. With all the electronics and if the antenna mount isn't grounded you are subject to transmitting noise to other electrical components. This antenna was not GMRS or UHF. It is a VHF Highband 150 Meg antenna.

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Thank you very much

That’s what I remember too.

Maybe I’m old, but I remember when some of the walkie talkies were on channel eleven too. (Spelled out to avoid the dreaded Tapatalk bug).

Hey Rob, thanks for checking in. We have a pretty active group spread from Alexandria/Arlington (and into MD) to Leesburg, and south into Woodbridge/Stafford/F'burg and as far as Warrenton and Culpeper. We don't have much activity here. Typically we will post events that are occurring. Most of the activity would be on the area repeaters and on our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/novagmrs The big repeaters we use are the Bull Run Mtn. 650, Warrenton 725, Seven Corners 675, and DC 700. Our members have wide area coverage repeaters on every available channel pair, but I think those are the largest and most popular, in that order. Come check us out on Facebook, and all the repeaters are listed here on MyGMRS. Using the 'Map' feature will likely be the most beneficial to find the repeaters and request access. Thanks, Marc

Not as old, but I was happy when the 49MHz walkies came out. Much better tech and performance. But I was happy as hell back in the early 70s with the 27MHz walki-talkies. Fun times.

GE are the earliest walkie talkies I remember having too, but it was these https://www.ebay.com/itm/266679045699 On radio shack, I have a CB from there from sometime in the late 90's, and it IS branded radio shack. The mag mount antenna, as far as I know, never had any logos, and definitely doesn't now, though tje connectors have gotten a little corroded.

Maybe I was wrong about Radio Shack. Because it was this walkie talkie I owned. A GE. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566874310/general-electric-walkie-talkie-model-no?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=realistic+walkie+talkie&ref=sr_gallery-1-11&pro=1&content_source=1e7d35687412d382575f6798675b27afaeac1be3%3A1566874310&organic_search_click=1

I am embarrassed to admit that I too owned a set, circa ~1975.. We would attach a long-wire to the antenna and talk with CB'rs... I then moved up to CB radios (plural) before taking a break for 40 years and then getting a GMRS radio..

And Archer and Archer Space Patrol Realistic tended to be their better brand. They had handheld ham radios that were built for them by other companies. I bought a pair of these after I was grown up and newly married, although this picture is from a radio museum website. Apparently I was a latent ham even then!

As I recall, Radio Shack was “Realistic” brand. I lusted after a brand called Handic, from Sweden. They were all international orange in color, had cool rubber antenna options, and speaker mics. Out of my budget as a teen, but I found several and bought them off eBay many years ago. While they are all gone now, it was an old dream realized. Same for a pretty cool “small” unit called a “Pocket Com” walkie-talkie. Saw a pair in old magazine ads, then saw them once in person at a country store while in hunting trip in the Virginia mountains. Didn’t buy, regretted, found years later on eBay. Nostalgia is fun.

I still have a set of Sears Walkie Talkies and they work. The problem with those old walkie talkies was the there was no squelch adjustment on most of them. And one was lucky to talk from one room to another inside. I would hope that the wrist watches work better than those walkie talkies did.

Now we await the GMRS shoe radio. But instead of CTCSS, it uses a new tech called "The Cone of Silence."

The RDM models seem to be the favorite at Walmart. When traveling do you use an external antenna? There is a dual band magnet mount specifiy for MURS and GMRS. https://dpdproductions.com/products/dual-band-gmrs-murs-mobile-antenna If you use a duplexer, some adapters and a couple of short jumper cables, you can have both a MURS and a GMRS radio connected to the above antenna at the same time. The duplexer will isolate the two radios so they won’t get damaged during transmission. https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/cma-cf-4160j

Thank you. I just had to feed my addiction. I won't have many freqs program except for the Part 90 Business Radio Service freqs I'm licensed for, and the MURS channels for receive only since I can't get radio powered down to 2 watts so I can listen in my travels. The CPS will only allow me to take it to 10 watts.

I'm just finishing up with a third radio in my 23 Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr. to complement my Motorola XTL5000 High Powered Remote Mount UHF radio and my Cobra 25 LTD Classic AM/FM CB Radio. My third radio is a Motorola XTL2500 Remote Mount 840 Channel VHF radio. I 'm going to use a Laird TE Connectivity B1442 Base Load Non-Groundplane antenna hanging on the driver's side at the cowl with a Rugged Radio mount. I have the radio installed and the electrical connected however, I am waiting on a Powerwerx Anderson Power Pole Distribution Block. I had to remove my CB, Garmin Navigation Systems from the existing distribution block in order to power the newly installed radio. Essentially, all I have left to do, is finished up on the antenna mount grounding system, running the NMO antenna mount cable, install the Mini UHF connector on the cable, and tune the antenna. I intend to do that tomorrow. I called it a day at 3PM Arizona time. I've been out in the garage since 8AM and it was 113 degrees. Then, I will need to program the radio.

This is where I mounted my Cobra 25 LTD Classic AM/FM CB Radio in my 23 Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr.

I may want to forego this trail so I can keep my fenders on.

Since several of you are somewhat local to Uwharrie, I figured I would share this little gem with you. Its a video of the gatekeeper and v-notch of 390 / Daniel. There are some fairly funny parts; especially the last 2 minutes.

@nokones i have said many times that there is a huge advantage with CB over FRS or GMRS, because HF has LOS propagation, like GMRS, but also has the advantage of Ground Wave and Sky Wave propagation as well. However, very few people I have met in my entire life, have a properly installed CB. Even fewer have SSB to take advantage of the extra power and sideband performance characteristics. I only know one person (personally) that has an FM CB. Bad performance of poorly installed factory stock AM radios that only put out 1 or 2 watts and 75%-80% modulation on a good day, and the lack of operators with compatible gear for SSB led me to recommend the much more powerful and installation forgiving GMRS. I have an AM / FM CB. Ive done a test similar to what you mentioned, comparing AM CB to FM VHF and UHF. While I didn't compare CB AM to CB FM, my results showed a dramatic range improvement with a 50w GMRS radio compared to my well performing AM CB. Living here in VA, I should try to find some time to duplicate your test, to see how terrain and woods impact performance. I'll have to see if I can get the one person I know with an FM CB to run some tests with me.

Dixie Run at Windrock this weekend if anyone is looking for something to do. We have repairs from Uhwarrier JJ last weekend so can't make it to this one. Fun weekend in Uhwarrie again even with a little breakage..litterly lost the brake line on left rear (steel line near frame) on Dicki Bell and limped to Troy for parts. Then the other half backed into a tree on sunday and we broke a ujoint. Pile of parts at home so busy weekend. next trip is Cumberlands in October.

Did you drop a video on YT? I saw a few get released in the past few days/week.

The repeater is on .550. You'll need to check your radio manual for which repeater channel has the .550. (Judging by the skimpy manual I found, you may have multiple repeater "channels" on .550 -- so you could have multiple repeaters using the same frequency but with different tones). Your radio will transmit on 467.550, using a transmit tone of 136.5 (you can leave the receive tone OFF until you confirm the repeater is accessed). Your radio will receive on 462.550. If you have both units configured for repeater mode, then they are both transmitting on a 467. frequency and listening on a 462. frequency -- so naturally, they can't talk to each other. To do that you need to go to a simplex (non-repeater) channel where they transmit and receive on the same frequency. PS: Posting the same thing in multiple forums just results in split responses and overhead of finding information.

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