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My guess is, voice and data service when outside of LMR/LTE/5G coverage.

And always respect the Queen!

When I get back home in about a week, I'll sweep a Midland MXTA 51 and TE Connectivity/Laird/Antenex/Antenna Specialist A450 antennae and see how they perform. I don't own nor will I ever buy any non-professional quality two-way radio product so I won't be comparing a Tram 1126 B antenna.

Done that too. Although, we didn't have enough power to turn on the street lights when we keyed, it definitely caused the picture on TV Channel 2 to wiggle a lot.

It really amazes me that "Some People" get the same VSWRs on a cheap POS Pandaland antenna with a spread difference of almost 20 megs. Really? Wow, that is amazing that any antenna can do that.

I remember doing some radio testing on 800 Mhz in the very early 80s. I was driving up S.R. 99 in Fresno and this Cadillac with Texas plates kept hitting the brakes in front of me. Then I realized that he was doing this everytime I keyed the 800 Meg radio. I drove up along side thinking he may be a tad impaired and I noticed that he had a box on top of the dashboard and a light would light up when I keyed the radio. The box was a Fuzzbuster (radar detector) and obviously he thought he was being targeted for speeding. So, I told my partner in crime let's have some fun. With the freeway speeds being 55 MPH in those days, we let him get up to about 80 and we keyed the mic and he slowed down to 55 MPH and we kept it keyed for several miles. I bet he was getting impatient going 55 MPH. We pulled off the freeway because we needed to get some gas and that was enough fun for the day. It's a true story, I know because I was there causing all this fun. No, the caddy did not have any bull horns on the front of his car.

You forgot to mention the warning about the brake light will light up and make the brakes lock up everytime you key up the radio.

Or a glass-mount antenna.

You can go with a high gain antenna. There is no rule on the ERP with the 462 MHz main channels, but that will change your effective radiation pattern.

And it may require the older version Windows XP Prolific driver which means if you don't already have it, you won't find it. In some cases, some radios do not like the newer Prolific Windows XP driver.

The radio may not be happy with Windows 10 or 11 64-bit OS and the FTDI cable. The radio of that vintage might be happier with a 32-bit Windows like XP or Vista and it may want to see a prolific driver and cable. If you don't have those resources, let me know and I can help you out.

At this time, it is unknown if the Repeat function is disabled or if there was an input tone change. We just need to exercise patience to see what the repeater owner is going to do.

The encryption is AES256, providing the radio has the entitlement. I do not need anything special to load the key into my XPR5550e and XPR7550e radios. I just enter the encryption key with the CPS. The key I have to use is well over and I mean alot well, over 50 characters.

Shaw Butte is still on the air, at least it is IDing. Either the Station is not repeating or the input tone has changed. The input tone Towers 600 has also changed. Towers 575 appears to be back on the air for now.

And we are using encryption on some of the Talk Groups.

In the DMR mode the Part 90 Industrial/Business Radio Service

With the exception of CB Radio, FRS, Marine and Aviation in the United States, and IMS Spread Spectrum, I believe all services require some type of Station or Operator license.

I have a couple of Motorola DMR radios with several DMR repeated and simplex channels programmed and not one of the have any HAM channels programmed in them. One main reason why I don't is because I am not a licensed HAM and I don't care to be a HAM.

Based on what he wrote in his post, I didn't pick up on that. At first, I did think that may have been the case and I did go back and reread the post a couple times and didn't see a connection in the possibility. I did think can anybody be that stupid and if they were, they wouldn't even know what a dummy load is, and even a have an ounce of intelligence to get a picture of one. I guess I incorrectly assumed and added another second mistake in my life to my long list of second mistakes. Now, if he was using a VHF Phantom (stubby) antenna from that retailer in that town near the Dunes on the Central California Coast as an example, those antennae would be an excellent example and equivalent to a dummy load, and I would have had a better understanding and example what was being conveyed.

Are you seriously using the item you depicted in the picture as a Phantom (stubby) antenna? If you are, you must be intellectually challenged just as much as that load terminator (dummy load) and it is pretty stupid on your part if you are and I'm pretty sure you won't be getting one iota of any gain since that is not an antenna, you dummy. I know I fell off the turnip truck at a very young age many many decades ago, but the last time I checked Bird did not produce any antennae. Did they just start producing antennae the day before you posted this to the forum?

Are you seriously using the item you depicted in the picture as a Phantom (stubby) antenna? If you are, you must be intellectually challenged just as much as that load terminator (dummy load) and it is pretty stupid on your part if you are and I'm pretty sure you won't be getting one iota of any gain since that is not an antenna, you dummy. I know I fell off the turnip truck at a very young age many many decades ago, but the last time I checked Bird did not produce any antennae. Did they just start producing antennae the day before you posted this to the forum?

Are you seriously using the item you depicted in the picture as a Phantom (stubby) antenna? If you are, you must be intellectually challenged just as much as that load terminator (dummy load) and it is pretty stupid on your part if you are and I'm pretty sure you won't be getting one iota of any gain since that is not an antenna, you dummy. I know I fell off the turnip truck at a very young age many many decades ago, but the last time I checked Bird did not produce any antennae. Did they just start producing antennae the day before you posted this to the forum?

You must be a genuine amateur and I don't mean an Amateur Radio Operator or are you just a normal developmentally challenged Sad Ham?

Will the GMRUS start requiring people to take and pass a written test to get a license?

No, it doesn't reverse anything. The receive freq and tone stays as programmed and the transmit freqs changes to the same freq and tone as the receive freq and tone is programmed for simplex operation.