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Just received a call back about my XS20G. They said it was indeed a faulty RX. Of course it is Chinese new year apparently and they are out of stock, so I did the right thing and upgraded to a KG1000G :} Luckily they had that in stock even after everyone went into panic buy mode when the cell towers went down recently. Thanks for everyone's help!

Yes I failed to mention that in original post. I tried turning squelch down each time even down to 1 and wasn't receiving any better. Also tried narrow and wide band with no luck. At this point I have written to the company to see if I can do an exchange. Thank you for all input, just wanted to make sure I covered all bases of attempts.

Thanks for the reply. I have tried the mxta26 on top of my jeep roof on a mag mount. I have also tried it on a metal anchor point on the back bumper housing as well as a lip mount on my hood. Neither showed any improvement.

Hello all and thank you for your hopeful help in advance. before blaming it on a damaged item brand new I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Equipment used: New KG-xs20g hard wired directly to the battery and connected via midland mxta26. Communicating with a KG 935G HT. The xs20g has no problem transmitting the the handheld as expected. But I wasn't receiving anything outside of about 50 yards on it from the handheld. The moment I turned the corner and became out of sight with the mobile The reception broke up from the handheld and I couldn't hear anything on the xs20g. So I rationally thought wow the handheld is gutless and can't push through any houses, but then remembered that I have another handheld a kg 905g that has no problem transmitting and receiving well outside of this range. So then I figured it must be the antenna. I hooked up a SWR meter and was reading 1.02 SWR on Chanel Repeater 22 and 1.42 on Chanel 15 and nothing higher than that. All acceptable ranges. I then tried hooking up one of my handhelds to the mxta26 just to make sure and it worked perfectly. Good transmit and reception and WELL outside the range of reception that the xs20g was giving me. I'm totally at a loss here. the xs20g did transmit super far on the mxta26 (at least 3 miles simplex with heavy woods) but received worse than a walmart frs handheld with one measly house in the way?? additional info: no, I don't have any privacy codes on either radio when I was transmitting. Yes I was on high power for both. I also tried different antennas hooked up to the mobile including a j pole and ghost antenna. all gave the same terrible results for reception on the xs20g Is there anything I'm missing before I send this thing back?