WRXB215

I just wedge mine between my seat and the center seat or console. 😄
The attached picture shows the radio in my pickup. 

I'm still new to radio, but for the last year, I too run a Radioddity DB20G, with a Tram through-glass antenna.  Folks will tell you this antenna is garbage, and it may be, but I get a 1.1 SWR with it, and can hit repeaters 40-60 miles away, depending on my altitude, so I guess the 20 watts deals with the 'bad' antenna issues pretty well!
Advantages to the DB20G are that a) it's so small I was able to securely mount its rail to the dashboard with removable alien tape, b) it had a 12 volt plug built in, and c) it's unlockable, so I now I can monitor marine band, MURS, and ham frequencies in addition to GMRS while I drive.

UV-5R "GMRS" with an old Radio Shack scanner antenna I had in the garage from way back. Home made adapter. Yes, I can actually talk to people with this thing. 😉

UV-5R "GMRS" with an old Radio Shack scanner antenna I had in the garage from way back. Home made adapter. Yes, I can actually talk to people with this thing. 😉

Yes I have the Radio. if you unlock the radio  you can enter all the GMRS channels the same as a GMRS setup, then continue to add your Repeaters with different CTC tones for your different Repeaters that you use. Just don't go outside of the GMRS freq's to keep yourself legit, well kind of. Like Sshannon said.

UncleYoda,
something you might try is to first save the configuration from the gmrs profile, then open up the radio so it can cover uhf up to 470.  Then re-upload the GMRS channels you saved.  That might leave the radio open to programming other GMRS channels wherever you want.
And yes, I do have this radio, two of them actually.

Easy, tiger.

Hey all, so in a moment of weakness, I snagged the hot new toy, a Talkpod a36 Plus.  The reviews are just about all spot on.  The menus are a goddamn nightmare without a real manual to explain them, but otherwise, it works about as well as several other GMRS HT's I have, but with a super-low price.  Some of the Baofeng options cost more!

I ran into one piece of weirdness, though.  I normally keep a UV-5R with a Nagoya 771G antenna scanning in my office at all times, just to know what's happening in my vicinity, so I thought I'd try using this for the same one afternoon.  It worked just fine, but had trouble picking up some of the more distant sources, so I figured I'd pop the 771G on it for a little boost.  What I discovered was that I couldn't receive anything at all outside of a quarter mile from my desk!
I immediately swapped back to the stock antenna, and it worked just as before.  I retested the 771G on a Baofeng, and *it* worked just fine.
So I guess Nagoya antennae and Talkpod a36 Plus radios are incompatible???

Amateur Radio. Available in three classes: entry level Technician (mostly VHF and UHF access), General (adds more >VHF bands, and most of HF), Amateur Extra (full privileges)

One nice feature for any radio you get is to be able to lock the keypad. We were using our radios earlier this year and I left my wife the KG-935G and I took the KG-S88G with me into the snow because of its IP67 rating. My wife was concerned she would mess something up on the 935. It has three different lock settings so I locked it so the only thing she could change was the volume. You might want to check what ever radio you decide on to see if has different lock settings.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. 

Its true, the groundplane is much not optimal in that location.. But "some people" really seem to confuse "will not work" with "may not work 100% perfectly as it possibly can"

I've had the same conversation about my JK with some people around here. They must be right, though. I mean, William McKinley was their volunteer examiner when they took the ham test.

I use an MXTA26 mounted on the rear tailgate of my Jeep, which gives me a very poor groundplane, and all the of the experts tell me it wont work.. I've hit over 30miles with it on simplex and can hit a repeater 92 miles away, so it works good enough for me.

I think it’s a great idea. We answer the same questions over and over. 
But it does no good to give them lip service in the forums. People who are willing to compile the questions and answers that already exist on this site should put something together and write to Rich, offering to maintain them. 
Or even start a new thread called FAQs. 

Kenwood has released a new "Conceal Cary" radio. It's a little hard to hit the buttons and it doesn't have good range but it has USB charge and it fits nicely in a pocket. 😆

@Sshannon very informative and well said sir. The most detailed answer to the least detailed question. Above and beyond. 🙌

@Sshannon that’s something there! Very cool! 👍
I have to ask though, does it come with a lanyard? Asking for a friend. 😂

@Sshannon Very well said. You should expand that slightly and put it into a PDF. Is there an FAQ area on this forum?

@Sshannon Just when I think I'm joking. LOL! New technology never ceases to amaze me. 👍

Kenwood has released a new "Conceal Cary" radio. It's a little hard to hit the buttons and it doesn't have good range but it has USB charge and it fits nicely in a pocket. 😆

Nice, but this is real and does APRS:
 

Kenwood has released a new "Conceal Cary" radio. It's a little hard to hit the buttons and it doesn't have good range but it has USB charge and it fits nicely in a pocket. 😆

I agree, when you can afford the better items. Some of us can barely afford a UV-5R or an MP31. We do the best we can.

The range maps are estimated based on a percentage reliability scale. Some people draft the maps with a 70% reliability rate (looks larger) others use an 80% or 90% reliability rate, which makes it look much smaller.
 
If you move out of the mapped area, that doesn't necessarily mean the repeater isn't usable. It just means service will be spotty and weak. Possibly 50% reliability or less.