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Agree, however, if I am out off-roading and being the only vehicle, I have my UHF radio set on ch. 16 with CSQ for receive and encoding/transmitting with 141.3 Hz, and scanning channels 1-7 & 15-22. Also, I have my CB set on AM Ch. 16 and I occasionally do hear distant off-road traffic way off the beaten path. As for my VHF Radio, depending on the Area I am, I'll scan one of the Rugged Radios 4 Zones of about 9-11 channels that are used/shared in Arizona.

One of my Jeep Clubs use Ch. 16 for Trail Comm. The other Club uses Ch. 18

This is not the appropriate forum for the above posting. This is a GMRS forum and you should be posting this on a Amateur Radio Forum or Radio Reference.

I couldn't help thinking about this video all day and no doubt that I may be thinking about it more tomorrow as I get my Jeep dirtier, but a couple of thoughts came across my mind on this video. I have a feeling that there may be some fake body parts and I'm pretty sure that all the body parts are for real on the Jeep because I don't think Randy would use any CCJP (Cheap Chinese Jeep Parts) on his "NOTRUBI". My other thought is, is the video a perfect example of A.I. or at least the video is the real thing? Maybe after tomorrow, I'll drive to Rancho Cucamonga just to get my Jeep RUBI washed. I hope there won't be any missed spots, because my wife has to do her wife thing and point out all those missed spots to me.

Hmm, $200 huh, I think I just might have to get my "IZARUBI" dirty more often. At my age, I think it's time to pay to have someone to wash my Jeep while I watch.

Nope, I'm duckless.

The antenna for my VHF Radio is right in front of the Ditch Light on the driver's side and when the Ditch Light is turned on it will affect the weak VHF signals on 151 and 154 MHz. Yes, my Jeep is dirty from the Trail run last week Thursdsay and it will get dirtier this Thursday. I'll wash it this Friday or Saturday.

There may be a couple of options like the Jeep has, if the Bronco can accommodate them, but, you need to think about using the Midland MXTA26 GMRS antenna. This antenna usually will give you the best VSWRs right out of the box on both the 462/467 GMRS freqs. and has one of the best results for GMRS freqs. Another good antenna is the Laird B4505N (5 dB non-groundplane), but it will need to be tuned/trimmed. Here are a couple examples on how to mount antennae:

What is a MXT500T? What is the difference between the MXT500T and a regular MXT500 model radio. I never heard of a MXT500T model. Also, what version MXT500 radio do you have? The 30 channel (older model before mid 2023) or 128 Channel model (newer than mid 2023 model) The older model radio is not compatible with the latest version programming software, you need to apply the firmware upgrade first to change it to a 128 channel radio. The Midland programming software will work with a Windows 10 and 11 Operating Systems based Personal Computer using USB ports. Using virtual applications/programs to fake out the computer into something that it is not the real thing are nothing but problems. Some times they may work and most of the time they don't.

Or backwards like you see on TV from time to time.

I didn't smell anything. I assume you only been on this forum for less than a couple of months based on your post that almost border lines disrespecting the Queen. It is not nice to disrespect the Queen. It would be best for you to observe the various posts, especially from the Queen, to get the jist of this forum and who is who so you do not end up on people's Ignore List. If you don't get the meaning of this, maybe the Radio Reference Forum would better suit you.

Take a look at Ram Mounts or Bullet Point Solutions.

When you are focused with the task at hand in a law enforcement environment you really don't care what the audio sounds like as long you can hear the audio. The audio quality on a narrowband public safety channel is not a critical factor or if it is stereophonic or not. Try listening to a simulcast channel when you are in a simulcast overlap area.

Probably because the close friends of those 99.9999% people don't know of their shenanigans and haven't dropped a dime on them yet to the FCC, or as you have stated a gazillion times, most people probably don't care..

What quality issue(s) are you perceiving there are with the Midland Radios? It is obvious that you have never own a Midland radio for you to make a such statement. I sure would like to hear what are those quality issues. I sense that you are obviously one of those $20 POS CCR kind of radio dork that enjoys all the limitations of those radios.

It is really amazing that people spend and waste their money and put up with all the problems and limitations of these POS CCRs.

Are you sensing that you are not welcome in the Copper State? You are a good fit for California and fit-in very well.

The AZ GMRS Repeater Club has a Net every Tuesday at 1900 (7PM), except for holidays and the 5th Tuesday of thd month. The Net is called the Tuesday 1900 Net and is open to everyone and is conducted on the 550 channel through the White Tanks Repeater. The White Tanks Repeater will cover most of the Valley of the Sun. During the Tuesday 1900 Net, Non-Club Members are in courage to participate and the White Tanks Repeater will have the Travel Tone activated for encode (Repeater Access) for all guest users. Leave the receive channel as CSQ since the Repeater does not transmit any Tone out downlink. The topic of discussion varies and will be announced at the beginning of the Net. For more AZ GMRS Repeater Club information go to www.azgmrs.org As for SWCRS, it would be best to go on their website at www.swcrs.org or www.tucsongmrs.com Sorry, I have no information on the White Mountain Community System.

If you have any emergency who are you going to call? If the brown smelly stuff hits the fan, everybody else will also have the same emergency and everyone else will be trying to transmit at the same time and hopefully you know what happens when more than one person tries to key up when someone else is keying. There will be a gazillion people keying at the same and they won't care if you're transmitting or not and they will not be polite and ask for a break. It will be a total radio chaos and you won't be communicating with anyone. Public Safety Agencies have the same problem when an extreme life & death emergency happens, but most public safety radio systems these days have a feature to prevent more than one transmitter being keyed at the same time and jamming up the frequency. Also, public safety agencies usually have training for those situations and strict radio discipline. GMRS user don't have that training or any radio discipline for during emergencies. It would be best for you to have other contingency plans during those emergencies, the 9-1-1 and GMRS systems will not be the solution during those times for you. The GMRS is not an emergency radio system, but it "may" be a system for communication to use when the emergency subsides.

Essentially, with Windows 32-bit Operating Systemyou are dealing with the vintage Jedi Series radios like the MTS or MTX radio and the 900 Meg operating band range will not go down that far to the Amateur Radio Service 33 cm band unless you know how to hex edit the CPS. You might be better off looking at the XTS2500 900 MHz or XTL2500 900 Meg radios. The portables will run you about $175 - 250 and the mobiles will run you about $400-550. The CPS is easy to learn and use and with this CPS you will need a 64-bit Windows Operating System.

The Lairds, now T E Connectivity, look good and beefy and they appear to be a great NMO mag-mount, but for some reason, the Lairds will run a little higher VSWRs than the Midland mag-mounts.

Real radios have a monitor feature that when enabled, will defeat the PL (CTCSS) by disabling the decoder until the monitor feature is turned back off thus, reactivating the decoder, just by a push of a soft programmable button. The POS CCRs don't have this feature and if they have a monitor feature, it usually just blows squelch by a momentary push of a button.

If you're going to use a mag-mount, the Midland NMO mag-mount is practically the best one out there to use.

Well, the rules don't prohibit and some repeater owners use it for authenticating authorized users for their repeater. So, with that being said, with is the problem on this subject?

In Arizona, only Pinal at this time. There is also one site in New Mexico that requires PT-T ID, don't recall which one at this time.