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If he is a licensed GMRS users he does not need to lower his power down to 2 watts to legally communicate on FRS channels 1-7 and 15-22. He is allowed to use 5 watts on channels 1-7 and 50 watts on channels 15-22 even if he is communicating with a FRS user on those channrels.

You more than likely may have a little Itty bitty wire strand shorting out to one of the connectors. Get a multi-meter and attached a probe to the center conductor and the other probe to the outside of the connector and set the meter for a continuity check and you should have either "OL" or 0.00 ohms for a perfect assembly of the connector(s). If you get any reading other than the aforementioned, you have a short. Or, your antenna is way out-of-band. Check the antenna with an antenna analyzer to determine the frequency center resonance. Who assembled the connectors? Where did you purchase thd LMR400 cable from? My first recommendation is scrap the J Pole and get a real professional grade antenna such as a Laird, Larsen, etc. and tune it accordingly.

The duplexer and cables in itself will cause you to lose approx. 30% of inserted power. If the duplexer is not tuned properly, you will lose more of your inserted power and you may be very well left with just only a handful of milliwatts of output power and that will affect your Farz.

The least I have spent on a top tier professional grade radio was S19.95 for some VHF Highband HT1000 radios about a year ago. They were in great shape and the most I spent was $525 for my fully loaded almost brand new Motorola XPR5550e and then I spent another couple hundred to convert to a remote mount. I haven't dived into the APX series yet, been thinking about it and I kinda like the idea of having an UHF and VHF in one radio, but I would rather have those two bands in separate radios for independent operation. I don't need 700/800 Meg radios, nor can I legally be on those bands, and I don't care about scanning anything in those two bands. However, I was a scanner nut back in the 70s with my Regency R10-H/L/U, Realistic (Don't remember the model number), and Bearcat 101. Yes, I had gobs of crystals for the Regency and Realistic scanners and an Outdoor Antenna array for the scanners. I haven't dived into the Kenwoods very much, but, I have a couple TK780Hs and a Couple TK880s, Getting the cable and software was pretty easy for me. I am thinking about the NX series. I kinda like the idea of having the ability of programming two of the three digital platforms at once and you can change it if you want to drop one and pick up the other. As for the Motorola, the cables and software has always been easy for me. I have P110, GP300, Saber, HT1000/Visar, MT2000, MTS2000, MCS2000, Astro Spectra, Astro Saber/XTS3000, PM400, CT150/CT250, HT1250/HT1550/CDM1250/CDM1550, XTS1500, XTS2500, XTS5000, XTL2500, XTL5000, XPR5550e, XPR7550e, and DTR700. The listed models that are underscored, I just have the RSS/CPS and cables. The models in BOLD, I have the radios in various models and bands along with the cables and RSS/CPS and cables. I guess, I kinda fall into the "Radio Dork" category and although, I do not consider myself a hoarder of radio, I just have a gazillion of them. I haven't and I won't get into the Ham crap. So, I am mostly a GMRS and Business Radio Services kind of a "Dork" and I think the "Queen" puts the "Dork" category just below the "Nerd" level. My radio days started in the very early 70s with CB radios and then I started playing on the radio professionally as a user from 1972 until I retired in 2006 and for another five years as a part-time professional. I got my first GMRS license in 1996. From 2012, After the part-time professional gig in 2012 ended, I guess you can say since I am no longer a radio user professional, so that would make me a "Radio Dork". I don't know everything like "Some People", but at least I do know how to spell radio.

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And D411N also means the same thing.

And that will make you his favorite fan.

That must have been during the Timothy Leary days.

If it is abandoned, one would think there is a legitimate reason why it is abandoned. Abandoned radio towers are not common.

Sounds like one of those weird cults to me. Where did this cult gathering happen? I wanna make sure that I don't get near their Koolaid.

That is only for the base load coil minus the antenna element. Without the antenna element, the base load coil is essentially useless. The actual price including the antenna element is $84-$88. That is like buying a brand new car at an advertised price, but if you want to drive it out the driveway, you will need to pay extra for the engine and tranny. Who in their right mind would buy just the base load coil. Arcadian (Arc Antenna) price for the complete antenna, Larsen NMO27C, is $72.47. Buying from most discount warehouse operations that specializes in cheap and counterfeit products is not always the best deal. Buy from a reputable radio electronics outlet.

Channels 1-7 are the 462 MHz Interstitial channels and channels 8-14 are the 467 MHz Interstitial channels.

I have heard a Station ID on one of the Interstitial channels before. I believe the channel was either 6 or 7.

There are several sources. Setcom, PVP Communications. Planet Headset, Klein Electronics, Racing Electronics, Racing Radios, and Rugged Radios that specializes in various audio systems that may meet your application.

That's not true. I don't hate anyone. Although, I definitely do not have any love for Pandaland radios and radio products or other related inferior products.