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I TRIED to warn you!
 
*Their.. .and.. Do you seriously think anyone came here to find out what you would do?  

Nooelec makes the HackRFOne, which starts around $320 and transmits at up to 15dBm (31.62mW, .032 watts, which is less than 1/10th the power of an FRS radio on channels 8-14. Any meaningful transmission would require an amplifier which will carry its own separate cost, and would mostly only be permissible on amateur radio frequencies (with appropriate amateur license).

Disable the Rx tone is troubleshooting step #1. It's not necessary for using the repeater (but for filtering out, ideally, non-repeater traffic on your radio's end). But if it's set wrong for some reason, it'll also filter out your repeater.

Apparently Nautel uses this tool as well and provided this legend:
 
 
from video: 
 
 

What are your criteria?  What does “better deal” mean to you?  Cheapest? Works on most different services (ham, MURS, and GMRS?), easiest to use on GMRS? 

The call sign used must be an actual call sign. It still needs to be reported to @rdunajewski so he can free it up for the actual owner.

The call sign used must be an actual call sign. It still needs to be reported to @rdunajewski so he can free it up for the actual owner.

Let the repeater wars BEGIN!!

So ... this depends on whether the radio has tone defeat and whether it has a meter.  I still posit that this is above the average GMRS owner.

Standard heat shrink tubing will not be very waterproof in a location that gets a lot of rain year round. The marine grade heat shrink tubing will work but it will be messy when trying to remove it since it has heat activated glue inside to ensure it is waterproof.
The self fusing rubber tape wrapped with good electrical tape for UV protection works the best. That combo has been used for a long time for sealing coax connections for amateur radio, CB and TV.

I think that this paragraph is pretty succinct:
The Moxon rectangle is a 2-element array using dual coupling between elements to produce its nearly cardioidal pattern. Because it depends upon both the mutual coupling between parallel portions of the elements and the coupling between element ends, it is not amenable to the addition of further elements for increased gain. In other words, a Moxon rectangle is not expandable by the addition of director in the manner of a standard Yagi.
But the author, SK W4RNL, goes on to describe how to stack the rectangles:
http://on5au.be/content/a10/moxon/moxstack.html

A group on this forum? Join first, and discover what is already here. If not here, then where, and what kind of group, in person group, or forum? And if forum, wjhy not simply take part in what is already here, and other places? 

Or maybe some outriggers

Yes, the main reason given was the risks.  It's a typical attitude for emergency management people; they think we're incapable of doing basic things everyone can do.  A 911 dispatcher told me that same kind of thing - getting in the way or needing to be rescued - when I was a volunteer.  But people don't need FEMA cousres, Red Cross courses, or an AUXCOMM approval to do basic shit that we've all done when needed.
[There is possibly something much worse than this happening but it's not verifiable with reliable sources yet, so I prefer to hold off on discussing it.  It isn't radio related anyway, but like always ham (and GMRS) operators could help spread the word when MSM doesn't cover it.]

My understanding was not that they didn’t want people to check on their neighbors with a radio in hand, but that they didn’t want people mounting overly ambitious uncoordinated efforts that might interfere with the official efforts and taking additional risks to check on people, if by doing so they might have contributed to a situation that stretched out the already too thin resources. But instead of seeking to coordinate with the very willing additional volunteers they drove them away with their heavy handed tactics.
 

Yeah well my rights are not only my rights when it suits the government's whims. We have gotten way off base in this regard. If I want to go door to door with my little ham radio helping people I do not see that it is the government's job to tell me not to. I want the government to keep the roads paved and the parks open and the screw worms at bay. That's really all I need or want from them, certainly not any "thou shalt not go door to door in an emergency" nannified trash that they have become way too good at lately.

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If I had something that would transmit on that band, I would try to make it a little less dead. 👍

Hi Josh,
Please check the format of the callsign. It must be 4 letters and only 3 digits. You probably have an I not the number one. 

If it was so simple we wouldn't get any business here. ☹️

Looks like you might need guy ropes on the car instead of the mast when the wind picks up. 🫣

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If I had something that would transmit on that band, I would try to make it a little less dead. 👍

Voted and Happy with the results!

I had a UV5-G that had no xmit on ch 15 - I contacted the seller and he sent me a firmware fix that corrected it......xmit and rcv on ch 15 now ok.
I like those lil uv5s, I have both amateur and gmrs versions with large batteries, I use them for extended scanning times.  I have both the amateur and gmrs uv21s and use them more now, and have access to another dead ham band (1.25m).

I think most people who use GMRS do so using GMRS radios. They are people who simply buy GMRS radios to use while doing other activities.  
I also think that a significant number of the members of this forum do not use GMRS radios, because they are the more like GMRS radio hobbyists.They are the people who learn enough about the radios to repurpose other radios.
This forum’s membership is not at all indicative of most GMRS users. We are the users who talk about GMRS even when we’re not using GMRS. 😁

Yep, sometimes people just start pushing buttons to see what will happen. ☹️