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I guess when I get a boring moment, I'll snap some photos of my racecar communications and post them. I've done several racecar comm installations in the past and yes on a occasion or two, installations with mobile radio setups because of the unique application requirements.

If you are tracking your race cars on oval or typical road courses, a mobile radio is not the hot set up. You would be better off with a portable radio and an external antenna. If you were racing off-road or La Mans whereas there are miles between the driver and the crew/pit then a mobile radio would be the set up and the pit with a raised base station antenna and maybe a portable repeater at a higher elevation point. In the video, the radio was not installed in a good location. Reaching over to your side or behind you during a session on the track is not the ideal thing to do under those conditions. That would be a total distraction and may cause you to make a furtive movement in your driving. That installation was a very poor choice. The antenna mount should have been a NMO mount with either a Phantom, quarterwave, or a low profile blade antenna. The XPR mobile radio was also way overkill for several reasons. You don't need a 1,000 channels, maybe a radio with a channel capacity of not more than the total number of itinerant channels that would be licensed for would have been the smart choice. Maybe something like a Motorola CM200D or 300D or even a Kenwood would of been a better choice and a lot less money. He probably paid at least $1200 or $1300 for a radio that he didn't need. In my opinion, the video is a good example of how not to install radio communications in a racecar.

Hmm, it appears that rules do not prohibit me from putting up a repeater on the same frequency and tone that is within an ear shot of another repeater that requires permission to use as long as I don't interfere with an ongoing communication with that repeater because I can use any freq and tone I want and that other repeater owner can only whine and snivel all he wants.

My Weller equipped soldering station with my fan to blow away the Pb fumes from my Kester solder and to guarantee that I have the real stuff, nothing was purchased from Amazon. I have always wanted to dive into the SMT soldering, but I lack the engineering and technician education and expertise on that subject. So, it is just mostly soldering and splicing and joining wirings together and sometimes soldering connectors on coaxial cables.

That kinda looks like my attic for one of my three antennae. By any chance do you have a Del Webb constructed home? I am using a Laird non-ground plane mobile antenna.

They very well could be "Sad Hams" with their sour attitudes that have a GMRS license spilling over from the Amateur radio freqs because there is essentially no one using the 2 Meter and 70 cm repeaters anymore to listen to them except for the occasional boring subjects being discussed during the mornings on the Sun City West 2 meter repeater.

Please elaborate on how in these areas the GMRS users are complete jerks, especially in certain parts of Arizona and which parts are you referring to in Arizona? I routinely travel the said areas and I monitor all the GMRS channels except the 467 Meg Interstitial channels and I don't find anyone being perks. As for Arizona, that is not the case, although there is one individual that has a thing with one repeater owner and is trying to create havoc on a couple of his repeaters, but everyone just ignores him like he doesn't exist. So, let us know how users in those areas are being jerks. It could be very well, that no one wants to talk to you because you have that certain reputation/personality that precedes you.

I have a feeling there will be a major deregulation with most FCC Rules and regs in the very near future that will have an impact on most personal and amateur radio services because of the current administrations policies, insofar as enforcement and licensing requirements, and how the aforementioned radio services will be used. Most amateur radio operators feel that their world won't change and will be untouched and not impacted. Personally, I have no direct insight on this subject, I guess we'll see, but I think any subject that has a direct affect on the lives of the citizens is on the deregulation table.

eff sea seas = Frank Charles Charles or Foxtrot Charlie Charlie

Unless, there is a local ordinance or state statute or if he/she is a federal officer, I don't believe he/she can enforce a federal rule/code.

Well, are the Midland MXT500 and 575 straight or gay radios?

In your menu or CPS

Don't forget the school class rooms that were built way before the 70s laden with lead paint and the asbestos in the acoustical tiles on the walls and ceilings. Also, I think the floor tiles had some toxic materials and elements. I could very well have some disformities, but I wouldn't know that since I am my normal self.

10-4 on the Kester solder providing you're soldering with a clean 675 degree tip.

If the OP elects to go with a NMO mount, one thought is maybe a NMO lip-mount on the edge of the hood. I sold all my Corvettes last year, except my racecar, so I kinda don't remember if there is a suitable edge on the rear hatch or not to mount a lip-mount. In anycase, whatever type of mounts he uses, he needs to make sure that the mount has continuity to chassis ground.

I did not notice any degradation in any signal level with my glass-mount antenna when turning on the Rear Window Defroster. In the Phoenix Area, we do not allow any frost on our windows and never had a reason to use it. Also, my rear window has the factory tint. My VSWR on 462 Megs is 1.2:1 and on 467 Megs is 1.6:1 and unfortunately, I hear a lot of FRS traffic about 5-6 miles away and I can communicate with several repeaters approx. 35-50 miles away. On the Trail, obviously it varies due to terrain, foliage, and obstacles and I am not disappointed in the performance. Some of the poor signal reception is because some of my fellow Jeep Creeps use cheap FRS radios from inside of their vehicle You just need to follow the mounting instructions and ensure the antenna is tuned/trimmed properly.

Laird has a Phantom Non-Groundplane antenna. You will have to order the White antenna unless you want to buy the black antenna in mass quantities. I would go with the Larsen Glass-Mount antenna. You will be surprised on the performance of this Antenna.

The Diablo winds.

Maybe the signal was working its way bouncing along through the Cajon Pass and up through the Santa Ana Canyon with the winds?

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.