WSAH999

The maintenance guy at work gave me a brand new antenna mount like this. Brand is Pctel I think. I'm like 99.8% this is NMO. But that little .2% is enough for me to ask. Is it NMO? I may be fairly ignorant in asking that seeing as I have done some research on the magmounts and seem to only ever see that size and they all generally look the same. Even if it isn't NMO, it still is a free brand new antenna mount. (Not the one in the pic. The one in the pic is just the one that I had available to take a picture)

Looking for some other fellow operators in the West Michigan area. I have noticed (and requested permission on) some repeaters in the Kent/Allegan area. Figuring that there wasn't any sort of representation on myGMRS for our area, and seeing as we still haven't been able to connect to the midwest hub, hopefully we could see if we were able to help speed the process along. Started an open club on the forums, if you'd like to join you're more than welcome to. I've also posted links to all the repeaters in the general west Michigan area, as well as some resources and message board. I'm located in Wyoming/Kentwood area.

Yeah I sort of figured that. Considering for the satellite related stuff I can just use SDR. (And have been. Just didn't know if there was a radio that had the GMRS channel only TX while you could still receive on a bunch of other freqs)

Not going to lie, I personally just like listening to most people. I figured if I wanted to chit chat, GMRS was right there and a bit easier to get than HAM at the current moment. (Planning to get full HAM eventually) Also I like to listen to satellites, especially NOAA ones so I sort of require a radio that can at least rx 136-138mhz

Looking into getting a GMRS base station, not exactly sure what's good or not. I'm looking ideally for superhet, 15w (at least), biggest thing is it has to also be able to pickup 136-174 band. Besides using radio to communicate I enjoy grabbing satellites. Any suggestions?