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For "some people", obviously not for me.

It is inevitable that narrowband emissions will be mandatory for Parts 95 and 97 freqs. It is not if it is when. It happened to Part 90 freqs with very minimal complaints. The complaint of the audio not sounding like stereophonic quality audio is not a valid complaint if you still can clearly hear the audio, which you can.

Both my mobiles and portables have only a couple or three scan lists. I usually don't scan with my portables, I mostly scan with my mobiles especially when I travel and it is essentially one scan list consisting of the 15 GMRS 462 MHz Main and Interstitial channels in my UHF radio, and some Business Radio freqs in my VHF radio that are used on the some of the trails in Arizona.

Oh hell no, just an old people

That is extremely possible for me at my age.

Another gimmicky radio on the market. There is no real need for having the ability to monitor the Aviation Band, FM, etc on a two-way radio. I wonder how often people really need and listen to that stuff. I'm not sure if the Queen stated if this radio was a hetrodyne or a SOC radio. Also, there was no mentioning of real radio features such as, talk around/simplex/direct, Monitor/PL Defeat, Radio Zone/Banks. The only feature that I see being a benefit is the channel capacity. Maybe this radio will motivate Midland to increase the channel capacity of the MXT575, and hopefully they don't follow suit and add any of the foo foo gimmicky features. It's best to keep it simple.

I don't consider myself as "some people", at least I don't think so or willing to admit it, but I do consider myself as a "radio dork" and a Jeep Creep", and I will watch the video, but I'm curious if this BTech is similar or a copy-cat of the Midland MXT575 with a handheld controlhead/microphone and the transmitter/receiver unit gets put under the seat type configuration. Oh by the way, I don't get any Amazon deliveries, but the Amazon driver in our area is a Cute-as-a-button lady and no way near looks like an Amazon, nor do we allow Amazon Men in Sun City West.

a.k.a. Load Terminator or RF Power Terminator

EMR Corp, Celwave, and any quality brand from a Radio Electronics Retailer that measures out at 50 ohms with the appropriate power rating for the radio you are testing.

Why do you need a mobile relay station? What are you trying to accomplish? What is the make and model of your station, antenna, and duplexer?

I don't believe the newer vehicles have separate regulators like yesteryear. The regulators are internal in the alternators. An indication of 15 volts charging may be an indication that battery is failing and may need to be replaced. A load test needs to be performed on the battery.

Back in the 90s, and individual spent 3 years in a federal prision and had to pay a $10,000 fine and write an I'm sorry letter for transmitting obscenities on police freqs. The investigation to his dirty deeds started after a series of him transmitting with obscenities and when he was admonished on the air and he replied "Go "F" yourself. After he was identified as the possible suspect and while he was under surveillance, and he was caught in the act while on a transit bus. Subsequently, he was arrested and was prosecuted in a Federal Court with State charges also pending. Also, a search warrant was obtained to search his residence.

There are more repeaters in Texas than mygmrs.com depicts on the map. If you become a member of the Texas GMRS Repeater Club you would have access to a bunch more repeaters throughout the State.

Gregory: You've only had your license for 12 days and already you're a radio einstein. Where is your computer system protection? You probably either don't have any protection or you're using one of those cheap protection systems that came from a far-away land that don't speak english. It appears that the Radio Reference Forum would be more suited for you. You'll more than likely will fit in a lot better with all the Old Duffers" and "Sad Hams" that think they know everything and don't have a clue on knowing the difference between a burnt biscuit and their dark spot orfice. You have a lot in common with them. There is no doubt that there are more than 30 of those radio einsteins that fit the bill. It's a real peach of a group for you. So, go enjoy.

Maybe that guy with the so-so You Tube channel can do a video on suggested ways to set up channel configurations in a GMRS radio.

I set up my channels in separate radio zones by creating Regions i.e. Arizona East, Arizona South, Arizona West, Arizona Phoenix and I do the same thing for California, Nevada, New Mexico Texas, and Utah. The regions will be grouped together within a State group. When I am traveling in that particular region, I switch my radio to that Region zone for the channels in that Region. If I am traveling to or in other states that I didn't list, I will create a different codeplug file for those States accordingly. My radios are programmed with almost 40 separate zones. Some Regions will have anywhere from about 20 to almost 40 channels programmed for the respective Region.

There is no doubt that a known brand helix is the best way to go. For my GMRS repeater, my LMR400 coax run is just shy of 50 feet, with an arrestor, but it is a known quality brand coax used by commercial radio shops. Also, I am using a Laird FG4605 Omni 5 dB antenna with the tip at 30'. On relative flat terrain, I am able to hit the repeater with a portable approx 15-17 miles away.

Many many years ago, English was the only language allowed by the FCC and that requirement went away either in the 80s or the 90s.

Are you sure that you have the appropriate driver for the type of cable you are using? It appears that the radio is not communicating with the computer. You need to check the device manager and see if you have the correct port setting selected in the CPS and match the port selection that the computer is trying to assign.

I have to agree. Although, the TK880 is only a 25 watt radio, the MXT500 and the TK880 are essentially the same size radio. The TK880H, I think is 45-watts and is only a tad longer than the MXT500. The Kenwood radio is a great radio and is loaded with more features than the MXT500 and the channel capacity is 250 channels. The most I have ever paid for these radios is $125 for a radio in like new condition with power cable and a DTMF Microphone. I have both VHF and UHF models and I usually find them in very good condition for $75.

This is what I used for my two remote controlheads. It is a Ram Mount setup and since the MXT500s are on the small side, you could do the same thing. I used a similar setup temporarily in my Pickup for a Kenwood radio.

There are three good places to hard mount an under dashmount radio in a Wrangler, especially a MXT500. Hell, I even have 4 radios in my Wrangler, two under dashmount type, and two with remote controlheads with the radio units mounted behind the two front seats on the floor, and I have the 4 radios powered by the Aux 1 circuit. Here two of the locations I used. Be patient,so I can get to my PC to edit and rotate the one picture.

The MXT575 is limited on channel capacity, only 30 (which includes the 8 repeater channels). The MXT500 has 99 channel thus, means more custom channels with display names.

The noise factor is an easy fix, high noise environment external speaker or a high noise with noise canceling boom mic headset.

I would try mounting a quarterwave antenna inside the Skidsteer cabin in order to protect the antenna from being damaged. Just make sure that the antenna is mounted vertically.