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@offroadkid Welcome to GMRS and glad you got it working. Read this to get a better understanding of the chirp columns. It can be a little confusing at first but you will get the hang of it.

I agree except when you have to fight the foliage as I have to where I live. In that case, the extra wattage does help.

Nice, I think that's the one that has a jumper to switch it to 10M at about 25W.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

And I pray China doesn't treat Taiwan the way they treated Hong Kong.

Same

I agree with @AdmiralCochrane. I studied for both. Got 100% on the tech and 80something on the general. The difference in HF privileges is quite substantial between tech and general.

Is Tapatalk really that much better? My phone keeps asking me if I want to use it.

The technology exists and is in use but not readily available to the masses. I did see a project that is working towards this.

I've been wondering about that myself. Very interesting.

Because...because... OK, point made.

@WSDA306 Wow! That sucks! Used to when you bought a house you looked for things like: is there a train track right next to it, airport, crime rate. Now we have to see if it's in a dead zone.

Amen to that!

An example I have from personal experience. The two radios: I was given an old Kenwood TH-75A. It is old but very well designed. 5 watts max if plugged into a cigarette lighter, maybe 3 watts on battery. I bought a new Baofeng UV-5R8W. The two scenarios: When I listen to NOAA Weather Radio, I use the Kenwood. It has much cleaner sound. When I'm walking at the park and want to talk, I use the Baofeng. The Kenwood will not reach the repeater. It all depends on what you want/need and how much money you have and are willing to spend to get it.

Not wrong, but it makes me feel better about my UV-5R.

The FRS radios may have a tone set. Some of them come that way.

I'm not familiar with this particular radio and not sure why it would be called "Repeater ON or OFF" but it sounds like it may be referring to the "talk around" feature available on many radios.

@rdunajewski is the one to look into it.

I just purchased a probe set and some other items but none of them were prime day specials.

I knew what you meant, I was just trying to be funny. I love typos.

Not sure what "reusable range" is but in my short experience, the longer antennas only perform marginally better but are quite unwieldly so I personally prefer the shorter antennas. As far as tuning, if the antennas are GMRS antennas, they should be tuned properly. If they are U/V antennas, they will likely be tuned close enough but not perfect. For range, height is might. After that, a little more power can be handy trying to punch the signal through a bunch of trees.

GMRS is not an extension of ham. It is a separate service for a very different purpose. GMRS is intended for families and other small groups. Ham is more of an experimental platform so to speak.

Yes, some of us do that but ham is better suited for that purpose.

Is that even possible?