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This is the type of cable staples I use in a pneumatic stapler.

Did you have to evacuate your turtles, Jeeps, and radios since you're north of the Foothill Freeway?

Out of a gazillion mobile and portables radios I own, only one of my radios has the Roger Beep feature and that is my Midland MXT500 which the feature is not enabled. This radio is one of my loaner radios for my fellow radioless Jeep Creeps so they have trail comm on the runs. As for the my position on the Roger Beep, I don't care if someone use it or not, it's just another radio thing, like squelch tail, repeater kerchunk, MDC squawk, old LAPD Saber PT-T ID chirp, voting comparator control circuit status tone blurps, or plain ol' RF Static. Radios and radio systems are prone to emit noises. It's the nature of the beast, it is just part of it.

And there were the power mics with the echo. The echoing mics were kinda cool but I never had one.

As I said in my above post about losing my Firestik II on a Jeep run, I received my replacement Firestik II 5 Foot antenna a couple days ago and the early morning temps today were in the 80s so I made time to tune the new antenna. My spare antenna was only a 2 Foot Firestik II antenna. I was able to tune the new 5 foot antenna to 1.0:1 across the board. The meter needle did moved off of "0" but barely and it was not even close to "1.1:1. I have never seen a tune almost perfect like this before. Just for giggles, I rechecked the 2 Ft. Antenna and I was 1.2:1 to 1.3:1 across the board. On my next Jeep Trail Run, I'll use the 2 footer antenna on the trails and just use the 5 Foot antenna for highway use only.

I believe a 10 watt difference in power is less than a decibel. That is miniscule and not even measureable in the Farz. If you can't reach the repeater with 40 watts more than likely you will not even reach it with 50 watts.

It is my understanding most of them are serviceable. When the inserts start to burn out, you will see a reduction in your Farz. You can stay on top of this by periodically by checking your coverage footprint. I don't know if the VSWRs would get worst or not because it is mostly a desense issue rather than RF being reflected back.

My EMR Corp Duplexer mounted to a backboard. The cables were custom made by me. If you're going to use a cheap Chinese duplexer I would be more concern about burning out the plastic inserts at each connection port rather than the mounting orientation. The cheap Chinese duplexers have a habit of burning out the plastic inserts in the ports from RF.

I need take a look at the rule again, maybe it is time to start buying operational fixed station equipment and/ are microwave for linking

The once was Laird LMR antennae are marketed by T E Connectivity and have been for about a year or two now.

"Some People" I know, and I am one of them, choose not to be a HAM for various reason and spending the money on HAM gear isn't the reason at all for me. You can say that it's not the fact of the hoops that you have to jump through to get your license, it's some of the people that are involved in the hobby. I haven't seen that in the GMRS community.

All seven 462 Interstitial channels and the eight main 462 channels are very busy with simplex traffic throughout the West Valley of the Phoenix Region. The 550, 575, 600, 700, and 725 channels have moderate use with repeater traffic and will provide very good coverage throughout most of the Phoenix Region and are high level elevation repeaters. The 625, 650, and 675 channels is mostly light to light moderate repeater use and are mostly low level elevation repeaters. A couple of GMRS channels are used for a lot of off-road activities by numerous off-road groups throughout the entire State. GMRS Channels 16 and 18 are the most used channels along with some trail comm use on FRS/GMRS Channels 5 & 6. I have heard some CB radio traffic, not much, I assume are trail comms because I hear them occasionally off the beaten path way out in the boonies. The CB traffic I've been hearing is AM traffic. I don't know if there is any FM traffic because I haven't been monitoring FM while on the trail.

Last Friday I ran Bloody Basin and Red Creek Wash with a group. I lost my CB antenna somewhere in Red Creek because of very low hanging tree branches that were over large rocks in the Creek. It broke off below the mast lug at the mount. If you see a black Firestik II with a spring and quick disconnect that's mine. I had my antenna assembly mounted using the Mopar Heavy Duty Spare Tire Support Bracket and the integral mounting hole was essentially too thick for full thread engagement between the Walcott Radio coax cable Stud and the mast Lug thus it just ripped the lug right off the stud. So, I had to resort back to an after-market antenna bracket for Jeeps. Thank God I had spare Firestik parts to repair it when I got home. The integral antenna mount on the Mopar mount that I'm no longer using is just to the left of the Firestik antenna in the picture. Sorry no pictures of the trail run.

In California, the State-owned radio remote sites did not give away free space and service to the HAM Radio clubs/users. If they wanted to use/occupy a State-Owned site for space and service, they paid the same as any other entity.

If I am traveling/towing to a racing event or to/from a Trail by myself, I scan GMRS channels 1-7 & 15-22 with the Travel Tone on encode only, CSQ on receive. When I am going to a run, in a group and on the trail, I will only be the group GMRS channel and tone, and on the CB, I will monitor channel 16 AM.

In some cases helps to prevent intermod interference from your own station

Good point!

You guys need to stay off the grindr app

95.335.(a) says Part 90 radios can be used on GMRS freqs. (a) Exceptions. Under certain exceptions, non-certified Personal Radio Service transmitters, or transmitters certified for use in the land mobile radio services may be operated. Any such exceptions applicable to stations in a Personal Radio Service are set forth in the subpart governing that specific service. See e.g., §§ 95.735 and 95.1735.

Why not? There is nothing wrong with narrowband. One of the GMRS clubs I belong to narrowband their repeaters and there are no problems with radio communication. Public Safety has been narrowbanding well over 10 years now without any problems.

And this is where I have my speakers mounted in my 23 Jeep Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr. The Motorola Speaker is my for Motorola XTL5000 UHF radio I use for GMRS and the Cobra Speaker is for my Cobra 25 LTD Classic AM-FM CB Radio.

Please note the Motorola and Midland part numbers, and the type of connectors for each speaker. There is nothing wrong with the Midland speaker. You might want to get the Midland Speaker so you don't have to change out the connector on the Motorola Speaker.

If you are using CTCSS or DCS on the decode side of the receiving radio it might have to do with the timing parameters of the reverse burst feature of the transmitting radio or if the transmitting radio has reverse burst. Given the fact that you're dealing with cheap Chinese POS radios, it may be questionable that those radios even have reverse burst.

I'm sure there are some GMRS radio clubs in your area. You should reach out to them and if necessary become a member and ask if there is someone that is willing to help you to checkout your system. You'll find that most GMRS clubs have members that are willing to help other members and enthusiasts.

Looks like you are using the Midland mag-mount. Those are usually pretty good providing that you recently bought the mount from Midland within the last year. The mag-mounts more than a year ago came with cheap/poor connectors and where a problem.