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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

It was my pleasure and I am glad to see that it benefited another person.

Ok, but please don't raz me about my Caffeine and Sugar Free Diet Pepsi. I have plenty in my refrigerator in my Jeep, it gets hot on the trail. I don't drink beer and it is one of my many personal faults. If need be, I can keep your 12-pack ice cold for you.

Any RF power output check without a commercial quality 50 ohm power terminator will not be accurate. Also, periodically you should check the load resistance of the power terminator to be sure that it is a 50 Ohm resistance or the power reading will be inaccurate. I have had a commerical grade power terminator go bad over time. The cheap POS Pandaland Power Terminators are not always a 50 ohm load out of the box.

Yah right, BS. How did you confirm that accuracy? Did you compare it with another Pandaland POS instrument? I had a 849 that was far from being accurate and it was sent back to MFJ for a recalibration and 9 months later, I finally got it back saying it was recalibrated, and it was still far from being accurate. I ended up putting it in the garbage. Also, I had a MFJ269 that I sent back for recalibration. They had that instrument for four months and while I was waiting, I had my Bird 43 recalibrated and purchased a RigExpert. The RigExperf appears to be a good unit. I ended up giving away the 269 to Sir Steve because I no longer had a need for it.

Why is that? Most Jeep Creeps are not radio dorks and just don't do radios very well and only buy the cheap POS Pandaland radios from a big warehouse business full of pandaland merchandise because they were told to have some communications for the trail. If FRS also operated on the VHF Band, a majority of the Jeep Creep wouldn't know which radio to buy for GMRS operation on the Trail. Then there are "Some Jeep Creeps" that have no business for having an Amateur Radio License because they think they know everything about radio and don't have clue to know what the difference is between a dark cavity orifice or a burnt biscuit let a lone the difference between narrowband and wideband emissions.

MFJ is far from even coming close to being accurate. RigExpert appears to be pretty accurate and is an excellent tool. Bird 43s and Telewave meters are accurate, but you have to use the chart to determine the VSWRs.

It would work a lot better than you think. For vehicles with mounting an antenna that could be challenging for a good groundplane position like a Jeep, you probably won't find an antenna that could do better on UHF freqs.

Or from Talley Communications or Arc Antenna and order a Laird C27 NMO antenna. You'll have better performance with a Laird.

The Phantom Midland antenna mounted on the OPs Jeep will work fine on GMRS freqs especially in the City on the trail with other Jeeps. As a temporary install while I was waiting for my Larsen Glassmount Antenna to be shipped, I use this location in my 23 Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr. and I was surprised that I was able to hit several repeaters miles away. I have no clue why the picture won't orintate as the picture is in my gallery is orientated.

Laird (T E Connectivity) has a 450-470 Meg # TRA4500N non-Groundplane Phantom NMO mount antenna. I use this antenna on my Fiberglass body racecar with excellent results. The antenna also comes in Black, but you have to buy multiple quantities. You can buy the White antenna as a single unit.

And more than likely you won't be hearing someone in Nevada while you're in California calling out Trail Comms to other Jeepers. The trail comms are communicated on simplex channels and a majority of the Jeep Creeps use FRS radios and do not have access to Repeater channels. Anyways, most trails do not have repeater coverage and if they do than the coverage would be very sparse, thus the importance of using direct communications within the group.