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There were several names used by the real radio manufacturers for their CTCSS marketing names. PL for Motorola Private Line; CG for General Electric/ Ericsson/Tyco/Harris Channel Guard; QC for RCA Quiet Channel; CG for EF Johnson Call Guard; and QT for Kenwood Quiet Talk. For the DCS Digital Coded Squelch names used by real radio manufacturers, there are DPL for Motorola Digial Private Line; General Electric/ Ericsson/Tyco/Harris just went with DCS; RCA stayed with QC; EF Johnson also stayed with their old CG name;and Kenwood uses DQT Digital Quiet Talk. I don't believe that the CPRs (Cheap Pandaland Radio) manufacturers used any marketing names for CTCSS/DCS.

Use a Polyphaser arrestor with N connectors and grounded with least an 8 awg wire to the house earth ground. Don't screw around with cheap junk.

Your multimeter continuity reading on the coax cable should be reading "OL" meaning no resistance. Your coax has an itty bitty short, that's not good. And more than likely it is at one of the connectors. If your coax run from the radio is more than 20 feet you should be using LMR400 coax that is purchased from a reputable radio electronics supply retailer and not from an operation that specializes in cheap discount inferior products.

And step away from the keyboard

My outdoor antenna for the repeater station and a third antenna in the shop window. The attic antenna depicted above post and the window antenna are just used to access repeaters in my area. I have two base station setups and one repeater station.

And also there is the fact that dogs are shit producers.

Sorry, I didn't notice the emoji. It was my Oops, its there. But you're right sarcasm and tone is hard to express in text.

I'm lucky that my wife doesn't complain about the hobby and the gazillion mobile and portable radios I have. She's used to the fact that I spend my extra money on toys like my 13 cars/truck/Jeep/Golf Car including a couple of racecars and high dollar bicycles. Occasionally, she will help me at one of my radio club functions and use a radio. As I gotten older in age, I have reduced my number of wheeled toys, but not the radios and accessories and tools. The only time she bitches is when we go somewhere in the car and I have the radios on and scanning the channels. She prefers to listen to the XM Radio and not the two-way radios.

The system will not allow you to send a second request if you already have one in que until a significant amountbof time has passed. I don't know what that time threshold is, but is several months.

Just let it ride and don't worry about it.

Some times deals are not deals. What brand heliax are getting a such a deal on?

Maybe it is the CCRPs that is the problem.

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.