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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.

10-4 on the Kester solder providing you're soldering with a clean 675 degree tip.

If the OP elects to go with a NMO mount, one thought is maybe a NMO lip-mount on the edge of the hood. I sold all my Corvettes last year, except my racecar, so I kinda don't remember if there is a suitable edge on the rear hatch or not to mount a lip-mount. In anycase, whatever type of mounts he uses, he needs to make sure that the mount has continuity to chassis ground.

I did not notice any degradation in any signal level with my glass-mount antenna when turning on the Rear Window Defroster. In the Phoenix Area, we do not allow any frost on our windows and never had a reason to use it. Also, my rear window has the factory tint. My VSWR on 462 Megs is 1.2:1 and on 467 Megs is 1.6:1 and unfortunately, I hear a lot of FRS traffic about 5-6 miles away and I can communicate with several repeaters approx. 35-50 miles away. On the Trail, obviously it varies due to terrain, foliage, and obstacles and I am not disappointed in the performance. Some of the poor signal reception is because some of my fellow Jeep Creeps use cheap FRS radios from inside of their vehicle You just need to follow the mounting instructions and ensure the antenna is tuned/trimmed properly.

Laird has a Phantom Non-Groundplane antenna. You will have to order the White antenna unless you want to buy the black antenna in mass quantities. I would go with the Larsen Glass-Mount antenna. You will be surprised on the performance of this Antenna.

The Diablo winds.

Maybe the signal was working its way bouncing along through the Cajon Pass and up through the Santa Ana Canyon with the winds?

For "some people", obviously not for me.

It is inevitable that narrowband emissions will be mandatory for Parts 95 and 97 freqs. It is not if it is when. It happened to Part 90 freqs with very minimal complaints. The complaint of the audio not sounding like stereophonic quality audio is not a valid complaint if you still can clearly hear the audio, which you can.

Both my mobiles and portables have only a couple or three scan lists. I usually don't scan with my portables, I mostly scan with my mobiles especially when I travel and it is essentially one scan list consisting of the 15 GMRS 462 MHz Main and Interstitial channels in my UHF radio, and some Business Radio freqs in my VHF radio that are used on the some of the trails in Arizona.

Oh hell no, just an old people

That is extremely possible for me at my age.

Another gimmicky radio on the market. There is no real need for having the ability to monitor the Aviation Band, FM, etc on a two-way radio. I wonder how often people really need and listen to that stuff. I'm not sure if the Queen stated if this radio was a hetrodyne or a SOC radio. Also, there was no mentioning of real radio features such as, talk around/simplex/direct, Monitor/PL Defeat, Radio Zone/Banks. The only feature that I see being a benefit is the channel capacity. Maybe this radio will motivate Midland to increase the channel capacity of the MXT575, and hopefully they don't follow suit and add any of the foo foo gimmicky features. It's best to keep it simple.

I don't consider myself as "some people", at least I don't think so or willing to admit it, but I do consider myself as a "radio dork" and a Jeep Creep", and I will watch the video, but I'm curious if this BTech is similar or a copy-cat of the Midland MXT575 with a handheld controlhead/microphone and the transmitter/receiver unit gets put under the seat type configuration. Oh by the way, I don't get any Amazon deliveries, but the Amazon driver in our area is a Cute-as-a-button lady and no way near looks like an Amazon, nor do we allow Amazon Men in Sun City West.

a.k.a. Load Terminator or RF Power Terminator

EMR Corp, Celwave, and any quality brand from a Radio Electronics Retailer that measures out at 50 ohms with the appropriate power rating for the radio you are testing.

Why do you need a mobile relay station? What are you trying to accomplish? What is the make and model of your station, antenna, and duplexer?

I don't believe the newer vehicles have separate regulators like yesteryear. The regulators are internal in the alternators. An indication of 15 volts charging may be an indication that battery is failing and may need to be replaced. A load test needs to be performed on the battery.

Back in the 90s, and individual spent 3 years in a federal prision and had to pay a $10,000 fine and write an I'm sorry letter for transmitting obscenities on police freqs. The investigation to his dirty deeds started after a series of him transmitting with obscenities and when he was admonished on the air and he replied "Go "F" yourself. After he was identified as the possible suspect and while he was under surveillance, and he was caught in the act while on a transit bus. Subsequently, he was arrested and was prosecuted in a Federal Court with State charges also pending. Also, a search warrant was obtained to search his residence.

There are more repeaters in Texas than mygmrs.com depicts on the map. If you become a member of the Texas GMRS Repeater Club you would have access to a bunch more repeaters throughout the State.

Gregory: You've only had your license for 12 days and already you're a radio einstein. Where is your computer system protection? You probably either don't have any protection or you're using one of those cheap protection systems that came from a far-away land that don't speak english. It appears that the Radio Reference Forum would be more suited for you. You'll more than likely will fit in a lot better with all the Old Duffers" and "Sad Hams" that think they know everything and don't have a clue on knowing the difference between a burnt biscuit and their dark spot orfice. You have a lot in common with them. There is no doubt that there are more than 30 of those radio einsteins that fit the bill. It's a real peach of a group for you. So, go enjoy.

Maybe that guy with the so-so You Tube channel can do a video on suggested ways to set up channel configurations in a GMRS radio.

I set up my channels in separate radio zones by creating Regions i.e. Arizona East, Arizona South, Arizona West, Arizona Phoenix and I do the same thing for California, Nevada, New Mexico Texas, and Utah. The regions will be grouped together within a State group. When I am traveling in that particular region, I switch my radio to that Region zone for the channels in that Region. If I am traveling to or in other states that I didn't list, I will create a different codeplug file for those States accordingly. My radios are programmed with almost 40 separate zones. Some Regions will have anywhere from about 20 to almost 40 channels programmed for the respective Region.