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It is my understanding that there never been a certified Part 95 repeater available until the Retevis, Midland, and BTech came out within the last year or so.

With both of these two antennae, I am able to hit a GMRS Repeater on Mt Lemmon near Tucson from Sun City West that is northwest of Phoenix. The air miles between the two points is at least 110 miles. The Larsen Glass-mount antenna is connected to a Motorola XTL5000 remote with 48 watts and the Laird Phantom is connected to a Motorola XPR5550e with 44 watts.

LMR Services certified transmitters do not have to be certified for Part 95 services in order to be legally used on Part 95 freqs. Part 95.335(a) allows the use of LMR transmitters on Part 95 services providing that the user operates that LMR transmitter in accordance with the Part 95 rules and regs insofar as freq tolerance, power output, bandwidth, etc. The use of my Motorola radios on GMRS freqs is totally legal if I do not exceed the power and frequency limitations described in Part 95, subpart E, and they don't need to be Part 95 certified.

100 miles is nothing. There is one of the Queen's favorite viewers in California that can do 200 miles with ease. Seriously, the average terrain elevation in the area of the Maljamar is somewhat flat and approximately 4,000 AMSL and the Maljamar repeater site appears to be sitting at the 4,121 ft level. With the curvature of this great planet and the fact that the propagation of the UHF signal essentially requires a " Line-of -Sight", I highly doubt that the area of coverage footprint is anywhere near a hundred miles. You would essentially, need a site approx. 10-13K in elevation above the average elevation of 4K to have the range of 100 miles with an UHF signal. Even a microwave control path, peak to peak would have difficulties in making it that distance because of the earth curvature. In this case, the 100 mile range of this site is very arbitrary.

If you do not have an adequate metallic surface then it is imperative that you use a non-groundplane antenna. They will perform very well if you go with a Laird or Larsen.

All three antennae shown are removable. The front two are on NMO mounts.

Here's three options for the Jeep. The lip mount on the hood is a Laird Lip-Mount and Phantom antenna, and does not need anything special. This Phantom antenna is used for UHF DMR. The mount on the driver's side near the A pillar is a Laird non- ground plane for VHF and the mount is a Rugged Radios mount. The glass-mount on the rear glass is a Larsen and used for UHF. I get great performance with the glass-mount antenna. All of these options can apply to the Gladiator. The Midland antennae are great if you are just transmitting on GMRS freqs. If you are transmitting on a mix of GMRS and Business Radio Service freqs use the Lairds and Larsen antennae, do not use any of the HAM crap stuff.

To prevent electrical noise being transferred from one system into the other system. You are drawing power from one electrical system thus you should be using only one grounding system. If you have two earth grounding points then you have two grounding systems and that will cause problems.

I guess I should at least respond to the subject title. The radios are not good for the SHTF situations. Who in the hell are you going to talk to in those situations. You'll be lucky to talk to your next door neighbor given all the channel congestion occurring.

And they may have been blondes and blue eyed!

They probably didn't know what he was doing at the time.

DPL 023 is not a CTCSS tone. CTCSS is an analog tone in hertz and DPL is a digital code. The lowest standard CTCSS freq (Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System) is 67.0 Hertz (cycles). DPL (Digital Private Line) or DCS (Digital Coded Squelch) lowest code is 023 and the highest code is 754. DCS/DPL may be either normal (D023N) or inverted (D023I) They both function the same in protecting or keeping the receiver squelched until the tone or coded is present on the frequency/channel carrier. When the tone or code is interrupted by unkeying, the tone/code will cease thus the receiver will squelched and prevent other carriers without a tone or the incorrect code from opening up the receiver. Essentially it is a Nuisance Eliminator. Motorola trade name "Private Line" is misunderstood by many because no frequency is Private unless it is encrypted. Other radio manufacturers use a different name for their CTCSS/DCS or no name at all.

I always thought it was for impressing the chicks!

I won't wish that on anyone. Barf Wang radios need to stay in Pandaland.

GMRS freqs are not universal. GMRS freqs in one country could be used for another radio service in another country. For an example, allocated public safety freqs in the US are the same freqs used for business radio services in England. No country in there right mind will send anything that could benefit the political division or military operation of an adversary. Iran may be in the world of hurt for radio communication or they may think any civilian operation could be considered an opposition force, may take away those gifted radios. Humanitarian items of medical and food would be a more appropriate. Electronic devices would never be approved by this country, nor they should be approved. Anyways, regardless of the freqs that could be used for by citizens in Iran, do you really think they would really work? Not a chance in hell they would work with all the electronic jamming going on.

Given the present situation, I doubt that the US State Department would ever authorize any such gesture of aid to any country that is hostile to the United States or it's allies.

My repeater has a 3 second hang time. Also, I use DPL 047 in/out and the station operates narrowband.

Oh hell no. I may be an amateur in some aspects, but I will never be an Amateur Radio Operator. Although, some Hams are cool and happy dudes, I just don't want to hang or be associated with the "Sad Hams". Not my style. My ID interval could be 15 minutes. It has been quite some time since I've been in the repeater's program. Even if it is 10 minutes, I still meet the requirement and with other stations IDing on the same freq nearby, I'm sure no body listens since my ID is polite and does not transmit with the DPL code.

My repeater ID feature stays idle until there is traffic and it will ID after that every 10 minutes as long as there is traffic, and it won't interrupt or interfere with the traffic.

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.