Thankfully all laws (and rules) are moral and good...
(I actually think that not linking repeaters on GMRS is a good rule. But rules are only as good as the enforcement thereof. If no one's going to enforce it....)
By that logic, to someone who's a non English speaker using a GMRS radio, anyone speaking English is talking in code.
I guess none of us get to use our radios now...
Can you post a screen-grab of what channel 26 looks like either through the ODMaster app or Chirp, if you're using it? That'd be the simplest way to actually see what the radio is trying to do.
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
The reason I have a pile of them is that they're short and flexible and work well enough.
If we're out backpacking, I always have a Signal Stick wrapped up in my pack in case I need to get out a bit further. Depending on terrain it won't make a TON of difference, but depending on terrain it might and it weighs nothing, so it comes with. And in testing it's made a decent bit of difference in clarity when working at the edge of a handheld's performance.