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I remember them well back in the Micor days. I use to carry a box of various reeds around and change them out along with the channel elements (crystals) in my company car when I traveled from one zone to a different zone.

I don't know. I don't own a non-type accepted GMRS radio. All my radios are Motorola mobiles and portables and one Kenwood mobile. Oh, I forgot, I do own a Midland MXT500 which I never have used.

That would be the Vibrasponder Reed, the bigger Reed of the two reeds.

The DTR600 is a 30 Channel radio and the DTR700 is a 50 channel radio. I finally received my DTR700 radio and I was impressed with the performance in distance and the audio quality of the DTR700 radio. I was able to receive an user with a DLR1060 radio about 2 miles away. Last weekend I was using a remote speaker mic with an earpiece and sometimes a dual-muff boom mic headset with an in-line PT-T switch and they worked perfectly. I am able to use my headsets with both the XTS5000 radios and the DTR700 radios by switching out the adapter cables.

More and more repeater owners are starting to require their users to identify and/or get repeater access by utilizing the MDC1200 PT-T feature to control the access to their repeaters. So, better get use to the squawking.

It appears that 99.9% of the GMRS repeaters throughout the country operate on wideband channels. The only exception to the norm is the Arizona GMRS Repeater Club which operates all four of their repeaters, and nine tactical channels on narrowband channels and without any issues in regards to audio quality. Personally, I would like to see the FCC mandate that the GMRS channel operate on narrowband channels. If it works for Part 90 radio services it can work for Part 95 radio services. Narrowband emissions help facilitate spectrum efficiency and minimize adjacent channel interference.

Has the external antenna been swept to determine center/resonate freq of the antenna and if the cable is good or not? Improperly tuned or mismatched resonate antenna can be worst than the portable antenna inside a car and the car almost can be considered as a Faraday cage

Taking a test where a person studies the answers to the test questions does not demonstrate a person's proficiency and proves a person's knowledge on the subject matter. It only proves a person has a good memory skill. So, what does that prove and why it should be basis for qualifying a person and issue them a Amateur Radio Service License is beyond me. Testing for an Amateur license is a joke and makes no legitimate sense. That is one radio service I will not ever be part of or having any interest in. My previous career was involved around radio communications for over 40 years. I have enjoyed the subject of two-way radio communications. I got my GMRS license back in the early 90s when the license issued were mobile license that had three letters beginning with a "K" and 4 numbers. GMRS appeared to be interesting at the time because it was UHF and allowed the use of a repeater. There wasn't many users and you never heard any traffic on the single frequency you were licensed for and the 462.675 freq pair was reserved for React and emergency use only. I was very ingenious on solving radio communications problems and developed and invented solutions to those problems. Unfortunately, being a government employee it was illegal for me to use those resources to parlay those inventions into millions of dollars for myself. So, some companies took opportunities and did make millions and millions off my solutions and inventions.

Paid member to what and which repeater are you seeking tone info for?

In addition to Astron, Tripp Lite, you might want to look into the Powerwerx 28 Amp Power Supply. I've been using this power supply for my three base units for sometime and it's been doing great. Also, I was surprised on the physical size of this unit being small and it never seems to get hot. https://powerwerx.com/variable-power-supply-digital-meters-30amp There is no such thing of anything being quality and cheap. Anyways, cheap is relative. You get what you pay for.

It appears that the original poster wants to use a MURS freq as an Operational Fixed link to remotely to remotely control another station.

If you're using the control head with the round CAN type connectors I can program it for you. All I ask is you provide a return shipping label. If you want it programmed, I'll heed you'd email address so I can send you some files for the programming worksheets that I use.

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You'll find the Midland MXT26 Antenna, is a very good antenna for GMRS freqs with excellent VSWRs. Other good mobile antennae are the Larsens and Lairds but, they need to be trimmed/tuned to your radio as a complete system. If you want good results it's best to use professional grade antennae and not amateur/hobbyist grade antennae.

My only experience with Kenwood is a TK880 Mobile and its been very positive. I don't have any experience with the Kenwood portable but I have to assume the quality of their portables have to be as good as their mobiles. I use the Kenwood TK880 in one of my cars that can not accommodate a radio installation because of the physical size and the radio will accommodate multiple programming zones with as many channels you need in any zone. Also, the programming is not that difficult and the software is easy to acquire. One clue in the quality of the radio is the support in the model line by both the manufacturer and the after-market suppliers for accessories such as the batteries and audio components. I'm more of a Motorola guy. I have the XTL5000 and XTL2500 mobile radios in my other cars and I have a large selection of various XTS5000 portables, along with the XTS3000, XTS2500, XTS1500 series, and various Astro Sabers, and numerous JEDI series portables. I don't have any Waris radios but I have used them briefly in my previous life and have found them very reliable and easy to use. The programming software for the Waris radio line is becoming easier to acquire these days. If you're in the market for a Waris radio, you have to be careful with the channel capacities. Some portables appear to be 128 channel radio but some of them on the market are only 16 channel radios. I'm not sure if the mobiles are in the same situation.

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned about the performance of my glass-mount antenna and the fact that it is not tunable. Again, I made another second mistake in life by stating incorrect information. I stated that the Larsen Glass-Mount Antenna did not have a pot to adjust/tune the antenna like the yesteryear glass-mount antennae. In fact, it is an adjustable antenna. Since, I didn't notice an adjusting pot screw on the side of the coupler, I assume that it was not tunable. Just the other day, I noticed that the rod was being held by a set screw thus, the rod can be trimmed for better VSWRs. And to my surprise, and after 4 months that my Bird 43 and several slugs were being held hostage by Bird Instruments for recalibration, it appeared on my door step a couple days ago so I decided to trim the antenna this morning. I did notice some difference in the readings before and after the recalibration. Today, as it turned out, the VSWR for a 467 MHz freq was 1.12:1 and for the 462 MHz freq the VSWR was 1.23:1 throwing 57 watts at it. At the lower power setting (24 Watts) the reflected power barely flinched the needle. So, I adjusted the transmitter high power setting and ended up with 49.7 watts. So, I have to say "NOT TOO SHABBY"

Is there a designated CB channel for off-roading?

Typical CCR with the usual problems they inherit.

Both on-road and off-road travels, working and driving at car racing events, radio club events involved with community and emergency events, and with anything else that a radio could be a benefit and useful tool. It's been almost 20 years since I retired from using a radio professionally.

By rule, it is virtually impossible for a base station to use (transmit to) a repeater, there is no-way it can happen.

I thought about diving into the APX series for the portables but the audio accessories are totally different than XTS series radio. Essentially, Motorola kept the same accessory connector since the Jedi series with a couple minor exceptions. At least, with my XTLs, I'm a couple steps in that direction.

The various Jeep and Off-Road clubs in my area have designated a specific channel and tone for their Club and use the same channel and tone each time they make a run. So, I have programmed all the channels and tones for each of the respective clubs in both my XTL and XTS 5000 radios. I set up a Zone specifically for the Jeep Clubs and programmed all their club channels. Just in case they decide to run a different channel and/or tone, I'll have my laptop and cable handy to make the change prior to starting out. Also, in case if one of those just-in-cases comes up I'll have my MXT500 along with me..

Does your display say RP Ch 22? If not, you need to go into the menu and activate the repeater channels. I believe fhe menu setting will display "rpt ch" then you need to turn on the feature. The display should say "rpt on" in order to transmit on a repeater freq pair.

Laird FG4605 5 dB Omni with LMR400 coax. No tuning required very good VSWRs on GMRS freqs.

Essentially, yes it is same model antenna but I ordered the KG450UDPL which is without the connector. I didn't want to pay for a connector that I would end up whacking off and not use. I ended up putting on a mini-UHF connector because that is what is used on the XTL5000 mobile radios