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Make sure he sells you periods and not decimal points.

Just going up to my sons from CT to NY state in separate vehicles made it nice. Heck, we talked more on the radio than if we were in the same vehicle. I had my mobile in the truck and set up an HT with a microphone and an external antenna for the little lady. Much easier to pick up the mic and talk than it is picking up the phone, dialing, waiting to be picked up etc. I don't think we were ever more than a 1/2 mile apart.

Or your dipstick.

Where were you till 2am? Whose lipstick is on your collar? Why does your phone have a password, are you keeping things from me? Who is Sarah, and why does she keep leaving you messages?

Hmmmmm... Sandwiches made by others. Seems very similar doesn't it. And when you disagree with the establishment they don't take half your stuff.

And no premade sandwiches....

Yes, she like to listen to the "gossip" as my wife does. The chatter on the local repeater has waned some and she has noticed.

Well so far she likes the new radio. Only complaint is that she has to learn some things all over again because the buttons are different.

If they want to they can go to English only and now there is an EO to back it up.

No mention of inverted codes. And all that needs to be done in a CPS, no chance of doing it through the radio, right?

Ya, lithium ion and other lithium derivative batteries have an onboard Battery Maintenance System to make sure the cells stay balanced and don't go over any specs. Prevents over charging and bad events such as fires and explosions. It's what turns the charging off when the battery is full.

Found another "trick". Didn't find this in the manual even though I'm sure it's in there. Figured it out before I could find it. I was programming a DCS inverted tone when I noticed it wasn't like the KG XS20G+ again. With that radio you just cycle through them. It goes normal tones and then inverted tones. with the 1000+ it just shows you the normal tones and when you get to the end just starts over, never showing you the inverted tones. I know I can program it in the CPS so I did that. And when I cycled through the inverted tones it stayed there never showing the normal tones. So played with the keyboard and the "#" swaps between normal and inverted.

You pronounce it your way, I'll pronounce it mine.

I looked. Apparently I scanned over it. I looked on page 39 and didn't find what I needed. Stop being an arrogant azz.

Confirmed, it works. Thanks.

Gotta be the battery BMS because you use standard USB wall wart chargers. The battery itself shouldn't allow the charger to cause it harm.

I think you found the motherlode of the bad batch. This is what happens with mass produced stuff. If you get a problem it's not one or two, it's hundreds or thousands if they don't catch it. Apparently I've been luckier than you with 2 out of 14 being non transmit.

OK, I'll give that a shot. Glad you didn't have to walk all that way Randy And there it is. Hard to believe after pressing those buttons randomly that it never showed itself. So there is a trick.

Rhon or Universal Towers seem popular.

So far I have been able to figure out a way to change frequencies to the VFO other than using the knob or up/down arrows which is painfully slow. With the XS20G+ you just use the keypad on the mic to enter in whatever frequency you want. So far the only way I can see to program frequencies is to use the CPS and program it with your computer. Am I missing some trick?

I think they know they have this problem and really don't care because it's easy sending out a new radio that costs them a dollar or two to make than it is to have QC testing these things. With the advantage that people will just shrug it off and either not report it or just buy a new one without complaining. If you plan on being cheap (like me) and buying these inexpensive radios you are going to have to expect a couple of duds here and there. But with a responsive company like this it's just a bit inconvenient and somewhat frustrating to have to go through the process of swapping them out. And it's not even a swap out, they just send you a new one and don't care what you do with the old one. Usually they receive just fine so set them up as scanners.

The aluminum tube that hides the coax and mounts to their 2 struts is aluminum, so are the struts. The U bolts that secure the antenna to the mast are SS also. I assume most masts are some sort of steel but there are aluminum masts out there. So there can be some dissimilar metal issues over time between the aluminum and SS components. SS is much better over time in the weather than aluminum is. Time will tell.

Mine doesn't go over 1.02 across the whole band including the 467 repeater channels.

Then do that. If you have a tipping mast then there is no real down side to using the temp ground plane.

If you have easy access to your antenna I say go for it. In my case my antenna is only accessible by bucket truck at my house. Trying to be one and done but that didn't work because I had water infiltration on my last setup. No idea how, I waterproofed the heck out of it and when I took it down I saw no signs of water. Yet since my setup worked at 26ºF and stopped at 32ºF I can only conclude it was water and when it froze it let things be right.