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I mean, fair, but you're here asking questions about how to do a thing, and folks are trying to help, but the "why" matters in coming up with a useful "how." That said: Yeah I'm starting to see why

Right. But for the other 99.9999999% of the time....... I understand planning for that edge of an edge of an edge case. But I don't get letting it limit how we act in all the rest of situations which are exponentially more likely to actually occur. Heck, in a "grid down, apocalyptic scenario," no one's checking MyGMRS.com to see what their local comms strategy needs to be. Which brings us back to the beginning of what are you actually trying to accomplish. Which still isn't clear.

It's fair that there's a lot of gray area in the FCC's rules (just look at the arguments on this forum...), but the Line A thing is pretty straight forward, in that it was a thing and now it's not.

Neighborhood watch discord group. WhatsApp group. Group text message. Teams chat. E-mail list. There's so many ways to skin this cat. What's this even mean? Why wouldn't fliers or signs work when the rest of society is working?

Yup, this.

I guess you're doing further research with sources you know to not be factual then. You're right, that makes way more sense...

People treating AI slop and hallucinations as a source for factual information is....concerning.

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And you weren't at the Vegas TT National event earlier this year? I'm very disappointed. That's awesome. I run U2 in my car for TT, XP for AutoX. Maybe we'll meet up at LVMS at some point, or one of the Cali tracks

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What OS are you using? Because, yeah, what @SteveShannon said. Pretty much any OS has an on-board program to deal with zip files natively.

What would you need a Jeep for? In most communities it is illegal to drive off the pavement. See how that reads?

yeah but that's a pretty different function than a PA, where you're talking into the mic and the same unit is outputting the audio, but louder.

Bingo.

Nope. A lot of them do because it *can* decrease confusion in new users. What's required is that the radio enforce the rules. The rules don't say anything about what memory slot a frequency sits in. My "nice" GMRS radios (nice for me...), KG-905Gs, will force the radio to low power if you put, say, GMRS Channel 8 in memory slot 20, or allow high power and frequency offset for repeaters channels if you put them in, say, memory slot 8, where a low power interstitial channel would normally go. Lazily programmed (from the factory, I mean) radios force things rigidly in place because it's easier than enforcing the rules more broadly.

now if the antenna happens to be shaped like a Cat D9, it might do something to the hill... But other than that, no.

Of course. Depending on the trailer and what's in it, it could be a REALLY bad day. It'd be worse if it takes your headliner or half your dashboard with it, depending on where the radio's mounted and how the cable's run. I'm just saying that, in my opinion, the juice, what of it there may be, just ain't worth the squeeze of dealing with a remote antenna.

I once had a professor in a technical writing course ask the class "do you know why all your user manual and instruction manuals for the things you buy are by and large all terrible? It's because the person they get to work with the technical writers to put together the manuals is the guy the shop foreman or engineering manager can most stand to do without for a couple weeks. And do you know who THAT is? Literally their worst and / or dumbest employee." Which is a long way of saying "no, I don't think getting stupid people to write regulations would actually be an improvement" Should they be written in plain language instead of legalese and spell things out? Oh absolutely.

A quick google shows a handful of instances of interference if you're sitting right on 433 (either the TPMS light on the dash coming on when you transmit, or occasional noise when receiving. At least 1 seems to have fixed it by moving the antenna. https://kq4afy.xyz/blog/2022/12/tpms-uhf-interference/ https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1l732o2/today_i_learned/

Short answer: yes. I don't know what brand you're looking at, but the OEM giant in this space is Continental and: https://fccid.io/KR5TIS-09DL

duplicate...the forum wigged out

Theoretically? Sure. In practice? I'd be surprised if it was more than a fractional difference all the way at the edge of the performance envelope.

That janky cable is usually built into the trailer, and to a connector built into the tow hitch, with a breakaway connection should stuff go wrong. Not something you're stringing across the bed of a truck to a trailer. I guess you can test the failure load of the SO-239 connector on the back of your radio if things ever go really wrong lol

It also has a Special Feature, so you've got that going for you!