Ok, now I'm confused as to what you're *actually* asking. First it sounded like you were looking for an antenna recommendation that could deal with moving around.
Now it sounds like you HAVE an antenna and are looking for alternate mounting solutions?
What's the problem you're actually trying to solve here?
That's because it's a mobile radio and can't transmit at a low enough power output to be legal on 8-14. That's pretty much standard on mobile GMRS radios.
Yep, pretty much. Or if there's an environment with a lot of traffic and you may not notice you're stepping on someone who started transmitting just before you, I guess, but at that point, pick a different channel.
Not usually, but I do when I'm in the race car and, even with molded earbuds, can't always hear whether or not my spotter's done transmitting. Other than that, no, no busy lock.
Decided to sniff around once I was home.
WSHI569's in Somersville, CT.
162.475 appears to be the closest one, and isn't reporting as degraded or as an outage.
So the question is: can he receive it on another radio and this one's misconfigured / goofy?
Good news. I found and reported a bug in the programming software (and worked with B2WR's support to show how to reproduce it, which they confirmed they were also seeing on their end) at the beginning of January, and whoever in east Asia is doing the development work on that...hasn't done anything with it yet. Which doesn't inspire confidence, unfortunately.
Hopefully Chirp will end up getting the full functionality.
Bingo, exactly that. I wanted to store them upright so they didn't take up a ton of room, with the batteries 'nested' with the bodies where I could (but not installed), so that they'd not all fall over every time I looked at the radio shelf haha