WRXR255

The chair is against the wall, repeat, the chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache, John has a long mustache. Over.

At the bottom of the listing it has this note - not sure if it matters here but for that repeater it says: " For all to enjoy. Have Fun and Be Respectful We will be adding Traveler Tones (141.3) " Make a duplicate channel and try it with those tones. Won't hurt to try.

Yeah, but I did find the manual online so I hope its settable. Its a funky radio for sure. Those tiny buttons, Arr!

My display has no "." so its showing 28300 kHz... I screwed up the MHz / KHz its showing - dont have my glasses right now.

At least that gives you an adjustable stepping ability. My County Comm GP-5/SSB receiver has only two modes I can figure out. Turn the tuning wheel fast, it advances 5 Mhz, slow turn its 1Mhz. and no way to direct input a freq. I need to dig online and find the manual though, I might be wrong. .

That is an important and helpful tool, but the Hat Trick is how do you find the lat/long and antenna height of say, the repeater your looking at?

We seem to have a good ratio of GMRS to HAM repeaters around here, but my side monitoring of the HAM repeaters shows much much more chatter on the GMRS side. Albeit, hearing "BR549, monitoring" 10 times in two minutes and keeps stepping on the repeaters timed ident, so it has to try again, only to not be given enough time to finish its morse ident before its stepped on again... Heaven forbid you talk to him, your going to hear the same story - whether you heard it before or not, about how hes new to GMRS and its his XXth day on it, and he was a HAM for 20 years, so - busier, but worthwhile chatter in a lot of cases, not so much.

That makes perfect sense.

Seems like the stock antennas on the budget radios are hit or miss. I think perhaps the QA on the cheap antennas is probably the lowest they let slide by. Last order of UV-5R radios I got (4), were identical, but one of the antennas was completely dead. Not a problem for me, I usually spend the money as well and get some decent quality but on a budget Nagoyas (701G) and they in comparison to stock, cannot be touched in my testing.

I used a Lido cup holder mount, and have tried to think about how its angled so no direct sun.

The lady on top looks horrified, so im not sure its good.

And they still had the scary bayonet lug on them!

Duh! moment here. I need to look that up.

Since I have newly installed my mobile in the car with a nice mount that puts it right where I need it and summertime for us is fast approaching, what are the thoughts on keeping it from possibly getting toasted from the interior heat on a hot sunny day while parked? Carport/garage is not an option for me. I know the sunshades for the windscreen helps, but any other tips? My radio is a one piece Btech UV-25x4, so no remote head on it.

I remember when I could get a 20rd box of the chinese semi corrosive primer stuff for my SK for $1.99... Any radio is a good radio if its all you have, but the longevity / durability of the UV-5R on his kit will probably be next to Nil over a short "combat engagement" time frame.