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In my opinion, Station Operators that intentionally jam a repeater and send tones or transmit music say inappropriate words, know they are doing something maliciously and don't deserve a second chance and should be slapped with a fine and/or jailed. They know the consequences when they start the harmful interference and they can't claim they didn't know that it was against the rules. It is every person's responsibility to know the rules, ignorance is not an excuse.

What I have found with the FCC in the past is if you do most of the preliminary work in identifying the violator and the where and so-forth so the FCC can run with the ball with minimum work involved they will be more than happy to take the case and enforce accordingly.

What I find these days that no one wants to do custom work anymore. I use to use PVP Communications in Torrance, CA for a lot of work in thd past. They specialize in Motocycle headsets interconnecting the helmet to the M/C and portable radio and they won't do anymore custom work for me because they are having a hard time finding workers with the right skills so they are only doing production work now. A lot of the radio communications specialty shops that I use to do business with are no longer in business because the owners have retired or passed on. One thought is checking with Racing Electronics and/or Racing Radios in see if they are still willing to do custom work. These two companies specialize in the NASCAR world and they use to do some custom audio work for me many years ago.

My cable is a BlueMax cable and I obtained by software from a site that I paid for the one-time download. I remember now where I downloaded the software. I got it from the Ohio Solo Tech for about $25.00

Seriously, the serious stuff! Kinda like when you have been directed to the Vice Principal's Office and you know that he will be getting out the special paddle with the aerodynamically holes and custom grip handle that you won't be feeling that swat for a week.

In case you want to pursue the Motorola Astro 25 Mobile option, I have an extra 44 watt R2 Range (450-512 MHz) transceiver that I'll sell you for a couple hundred dollars, not including shipping. This transceiver works with the APX series O3 or O5 control heads. You would need to acquire the control head, the control head power/speaker cable assembly, microphone, data control cable, control head bracket and they are plentiful on eBay. I have a spare speaker and transceiver power cable that I can throw in with the transceiver. I will program the radio to your specs and guarantee the radio works upon delivery. I can provide the necessary pictures to ensure the radio does power up and is on the up and up. I have several extra XTL5000 radios and I truly just don't need all the radios I currently have. The radio is not equipped with any Encryption features or is Password protected and was factory flashed for Smart Zone Trunking. Let me know if you're interested. Email Link below.

Agree, most people can get themselves in serious trouble if they don't know the programming parameters and the FCC rules and regs pertaining to Part 95, Subpart E, when operating on GMRS freqs. Programming an Astro 25 Radio is more than just plunking in a bunch of freqs and tone/codes. They will need to know how to program the Low/High Power Level settings on both the 44 watt and the high power 110 Watt radios when operating on Part 95 freqs. You won't be legal if you program the 462 & 467 MHz freqs in the 110 Watt High Power Radio with the high Tx power level set above 50 Watts. You might as well forget about being legal if you have any of the interstitial freqs programmed in a high power transceiver. The high power radio lowest power level setting is 24 watts. As for the 44 watt radio. You can legally program the 462 MHz interstitial freqs if your lower power level setting is for 5 watts and that you correctly set up the channel personality accordingly. Forget about the 467 MHz interstitial freqs, you can't make it legally happen and a Part 90 portable radio will definitely be suspect of being illegal even on the low power setting unless your antenna is a POS and the ERP is point five watt or less. If a person elects to go with an Astro 25 radio set up, definitely, do not wire the power leads to any interior electrical circuits like the cigarette lighter or fuse blocks especially, on a later car with a gazillion computer modules. Motorola recommends the "Red" plus-power lead be wired directly to the battery and the ground wire to chassis ground, not battery ground. If you want the radio and control head to switch off/on with the key, the "Yellow" Ignition sense wire will need to be wired to the ignition switch side of the ignition switch or you can home-run the "Yellow" wire directly to the battery, and you will have to turn the radio on/off at the controlhead. Don't forget to set the programming parameter in the CPS on the option you take with the yellow wire or you won't be able to power up at all. Other than that, the install, programming, and use is essentially a "piece-of- cake and very cool to have.

I used to do that with my Cobra 19 CB Radio in my old 04 Chevrolet C3500 P/U. My 21 Chevrolet C3500 P/U wouldn't accommodate the squeeze-in very well and besides, I replaced my Cobra 19 with a Cobra 29 LTD Nightwatch with FM, so I had to fabricate a way to hang the CB on the passenger side of the center console.

I have a Motorola XTL5000 R2 with an O5 control head Dashmount for my Base Station radio connected to a Laird B4502N 2.4 dB omni 1/2 wave non-ground plane antenna that was installed in my garage attic. My Laird FG4505 5 dB Omni base station antenna is on the roof and is used for my repeater station. For my mobile, I am using a Motorola XTL5000 R2 with an O5 control head remote mount and a Laird B4502 2.4 dB omni 1/2 wave non-ground plane antenna on a Midland Magmount base. The Midland Magmount base actually isn't too shabby if you whack off the cheap Chinese PL259 connector and replace it with an Amphenol connector. I preferred the Motorola radios because of the operating band ranges for Part 90 freqs, the 1,000 channel capacity, multiple conventional channel configurations, multiple Scan Lists, multiple programming zones, choice to use analog and Astro Digital on a per channel basis, talkaround, and a true monitor feature that defeats the receiver PL feature. I currently have 25 zones programmed in my radios for a total of 396 channel configurations. In my Truck, I have my control head mounted using a RAM ball-mount configuration with the Ram Can placed in my center console cup holder.

Laird FG4505 5 dB omni

I'm using software Version 4.20 with my TK880 with no problems on a Windows 11 computer.

As long it is not encrypted, in some States.

A Plantronics headset with a coiled cord in a carry-on definitely brought the guy's with the guns over before they asked me if that was my bag jany years ago. I was wondering why they were taking so long to get my bag through the scanner.

So, with that being said, my memory did serve me right, 75 cm is 400 MHz. Well, not too shabby for an old guy with some memory left in the gray cells.

A few years ago, and if my memory serves me right, when I was looking into getting my HAM license, I came across the subject of converting a frequency wave length into the metric unit wave length by taking the frequency number in MHz and dividing it into 300 to calculate the wave length into metric units. As I was exercising this morning with this Exercise Ball, I noticed this Ball is 75 centimeters high and for some reason the conversion formula came to mind because it was labeled as a 75 cm Bosu Ball. So, using the said formula to calculate the wave length height into a frequency this ball would be the wave length of 400 MHz which this frequency is used for Aeronautical Navigation. I don't think this frequency is for Radar Altimeters because I think radar altimeters operate around 1 or 1.1 Gigs and Marker Beacons are around the 70 MHz range so that leaves DMEs (Distant Measuring Equipment). Am I correct? They also had a GMRS sized Exercise Ball along with an UHF T-Band (500 MHz) ball but I elected to use the Aeronautical Navigation because it is a bigger ball.

Pasternack prices are probably the result of doing business in California. They are probably being surcharged to death by the local and governmental regulatory agencies.

Try this. https://www.mygmrs.com/map/7637

> Anyone got a link to a coax source for LMR400? Only need about 50 feet. Pasternack or Show Me Cables.

Yah, I know. I was born and grew up in Orange County and a 5.1 earthquake is nothing more than a liquor bottle and dish rattler. Some of those liquor bottles and dishes may make their way to the floor. In other words, its a no-bigee.

And there was an earthquake.

What PL are you using on the 675 freq pair?

The DILA 550 repeater is an open repeater thus doesn't care what language is inputed into it. Whatever goes in should come out the same.

That is the freq pair for the "Sheep 725" repeater located on Mt. Lowe near Mt. Disappointment/Mt. Wilson.

A project of this nature is more involved than you think because of governmental bureaucracy. The funding of equipment, installation, engineering, and staffing; and in some cases the respective agency's employee union(s) may also be a matter.

Have you tried the Dila 550 and Sheep 725 repeaters? There both open repeaters.