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Yes, the club has a Part 90 License and not only encryption, but linking and networking repeater stations, and a coordinated frequency(ies). A lot less restrictions than GMRS.

Ok, thanks, but the club will not be doing DMR on any Ham freqs. and the DMR system will be a closed system to club members only. Also, I am not an Amateur Radio Service operator so I won't be on any Ham freqs anytime soon even if the future deregulation of the FCC Rules, particularly the Part 97 rules in regards to licensing requirements, takes place.

Programming a DMR radio is not simple and I'm sure most people will not want to mess with it. P25 is so much simpler than DMR. However, my radio club will have a few codeplug templates available for the club's approved radios to help the members to get on the air.

I can only take one person. I removed the rear seat so I can have my refrigerator and carry my recovery gear, and of course, install/bolt down the VHF and UHF XTL5000 remote radios on the floor. The attached picture is without the recovery gear. The next time I load up my recovery gear, I'll snap a picture and post it.

My radio club in the near future will be implementing a DMR repeater system in the near future with a repeater located on high elevated remote radio site. The long-term goal is having linked repeaters throughout the State for Statewide radio coverage. Since, I am essentially don't have any spare room in my 23 Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr. I elected to go overhead with the installation of a Motorola XPR5550e dashmount radio. This makes the fourth radio I have installed in my jeep. I was hoping the Club would have gone the P25 route, but they decided to go DMR.

If my memory serves me right from my analog conventional simulcast system days, (and that was eons ago), it takes a difference between the two signals levels of 6 dB or greater for full capture. Anything less than that you will get the warbles and wah wahs.

If my memory serves me right, you can change the message in the CPS.

Ok, the rule is the K.I.S.S. concept is no longer the way it should be done.

The answers to all the OPs concerns and questions, are addressed in Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Chaper 1, Sub Chapter D, Part 95, and Subparts A, B, and E.

I would like Mr. Queen's take on this, do we now call channels "Frequency Storage Location Radio Positions" or just "Channel" positions?

Where is this repeater in California?

In the near future, people, at least "some", if not "most" people, will be applying for their Amateur Radio Service Technician License without the requirement of taking the ridiculous Technician Examination Test. If that comes to fruition, I more than likely won't care to have a HAM license. I just don't see the need. Although, it may help to make that hobby populate with a lot more "happy HAMs"

What is the 20 of this 98?

I can program it for you providing the freqs are conventional and are not for public safety. All freqs will be programmed with the appropriate emissions and power levels in accordance with the FCC Rules and regs. You just pay for the shipping both ways.

It is my personal opinion, anyone, especially someone that is unknown and pops up with no previous history on this forum, and there first posting is an "Oh Whoa/poor Me" request for money by using the GoScamMe page is suspect and just doesn't smell right. Donaters be aware!

Yah, I'll standby too!

Or whack off the UHF Male and replace it with an Amphenol Male N Connector. N Connectors are actually easy to install.

You should checkout Klein Electronics. I'm not sure if the pinouts are correct.

2-3 watts is nothing to worry about. How did you check your RF power output? With a meter in-line with an Antenna connected or a Power Terminator connected? If you're using a Power Terminator make sure it measures out at 50 ohms for an accurate reading. Having an antenna connected is not the most accurate method because of the reflected power.

If that does happen, you won't have to worry about any skip and hearing Bubba broadcasting from Oh My Gosh Kentucky unless they allow linking again.

It sounds like he forgot the baling wire and chewing gum. And he only got .5 mile away? Hmm, it appears that the two RA87s have more desense than two KG1000G Pluses. At least with the two Wouxuns you can get .75 mile with a portable and 1.25 mile with a 50 watt mobile. I believe there is one of those You Tube videos out there that will show the only way that this setup will work is you have to separate the receiving radio from the transmitting radio at a substantial distance or place the receiving radio in some type of a box that will totally shield the radio from RF signals in order to eliminate the RF interference affecting the receiving radio. If you are using a cheap POS Pandaland duplexer that cost about $150, another contributing factor could be that the plastic inserts in the duplexer RF ports could be burned out from the RF burn. I hope this is a good lesson learned and the OP got a lot of experience from this experiment. Marrying two mobile radios will somewhat work in some cases. You need to keep in mind that mobile radios were not designed to operate in a continuous duty cycle like a true repeater and may have some equipment reliability problems in the future. In order to save you time and money, and havd it work right, invest in a real repeater and a quality duplexer along with a commercial grade base station antenna and transmission system.

Oops, I made another mistake in my original post. The XTS accessory connectors are not M1 type connectors, they are M3 type connectors. The M1s are the two-pin connectors for the radius series radios along with the DTRs and DLRs.

Check your Device Manager to make sure that the cable is recognized and that the appropriate port is selected in Chirp. If your Device Manager shows a "yellow" symbol for a specific port than you may need to load the FTDI driver so the computer recognizes the cable. Also, try using the Radioddity programming software for that radio. You may not experience the problems you're experiencing by using the factory programming software.

I wasn't able to get a good look at the connector in the video, but the connector could be the M4 connector for the HT750/1250/1550 series or the M7 connector for the XPR/APX series. The connector does kinda look like the KNG connector for the Bendix/ King radio. In anycase, that connector is not the M1 connector for the HT1000/MT2000/MTS2000 JEDI series or the XTS1500/2500/5000 Astro 25 series. If you intend to play a little covert ops with your new gift, I believe an adapter can be had to adapt it to your XTS5000 radios, depending on the actual connector on the headset. Also, the connector on the headset also could be whacked off replaced with a M1 to fit the XTS series radio.

No, it is the Dometic CFX345