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1/2 watt or so near 5 watts

Better to ask for forgiveness then permission

Probably 1/2 watt.

I remember going to the doctors and they asked me to step on the scale with all my clothes and steel toe boots on. I said that's going to sway my weight quite a bit. She said she'd take off 2 lbs. I laughed. After I took off my clothes I stepped on the scale again, yes I had socks on . I was 9 lbs lighter. With the steel toe work boots, heavy weight cloth in my pants, all the change and other stuff I keep in my pockets, plus suspenders, knife etc. I told her 2lbs is less than one of my boots.

49¢ is nothing. I have a paint pump I use with it's gun and the o ring on the tip of the gun has a small screen on it. You look at it and it's a 50¢ part, $5 each and I haven't really found a replacement that's inexpensive. On top of it they only sell them in bags of 10. And of course you need to pay shipping. Needless to say I use and clean the crap out of these things and usually get 1/2 year out of them. If they were 50¢ I'd change them out once a month. Good find on the o rings. Now you gotta wonder what you are going to do with 100 of them

I stick mine in the rear pocket and it's not that big of a deal.

How do you know he'll get no real world gain? From what I can tell if you are doing theoretical vs real life they never match up. It's his time to use. It's just as possible he's right and you aren't or vice versa. Might be just enough to punch through his obstacle. I know adding 2 watts to my setup made a big difference. Just had that little bit of extra oomph to push through the leaves and get me a signal that was usable.

To see if he can.

It pretty much says the only way to have any regulations have the power of law behind them is for the legislature to pass the bill and send it to be signed by the president. That the administrative state cannot make regulations, enforce them, be judge, jury and prosecutor like they currently do.

Yup. Got that one too. For the most part I use the Nagoya 771G. I think the Smiley works about as good as the OEM TD H3 antenna but is half the height.

Look up the doctrine known as Chevron deference. SCOTUS had some things to say about it on On June 28, 2024.

Yup. Short range communication worked good, maybe 1000'. After that it starts to get scratchy. Doesn't deal with hills well at all compared to a larger antenna. I was still able to contact a repeater 21 miles away with the stubby on a 4.5watt HT. Certainly wasn't as good a connection as my Nagoya 771G, but they gave me an R5-7. Walking with it really downgraded the reception on their end.

https://www.sigidwiki.com/images/7/70/Motorola2F1D_Sound.mp3 Motorola Type II Radio trunking control channel. 136 MHz — 941 MHz NFM FSK 16 kHz

https://www.sigidwiki.com/images/6/64/DMR.mp3 Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is an open digital mobile radio standard defined by ETSI and used in commercial products around the world. Mostly used by private network and local police, can be encrypted. Used in MOTOTRBO products. 66 MHz — 860 MHz NFM 4FSK 12.5 kHz

https://www.sigidwiki.com/images/b/bd/NXDN96.mp3 Next Generation Digital Narrowband (NXDN) NXDN is a digital narrowband trunked radio protocol used in commercial, business & industry, transport and Public Safety professional radio systems. 136 MHz — 520 MHz NFM C4FM 6.25 kHz — 12.5 kHz

I think Carr may resolve things going forward. But the shear mass of regulations already in place would be difficult to escape or change in any short period of time. Especially if there are resistant people in the chain. Many would feel that changes like that would be going backwards and feel a loss of power. But govt entities making regulation that have the effect of law shouldn't be able to happen. Law is made by congress and the president. Not sure how this can go forward because of the shear amount of time that would be sucked up by congress and they will claim they don't have the time for. There was never suppose to be a full time congress/senate in the first place.

Very happy with mine. Got about a dozen of them. I did have 2 bad ones, both replaced by Tidradio. I contact a few repeaters. 21 miles, 17 miles and 7 miles away. Nice features, loud speaker. The antenna is OK, I replaced it with the Nagoya 771G and got better results.

And it'll only last 2 days?

My bench power supply's fan is not loud. Not like some of those jet engine cooling fans you hear about on some inverters and chargers. I've decided to take advantage of the sale and now have a total of 4 of the 100Ah batteries. Going to eventually set up a 48 volt inverter with solar charging. Gotta get another 600 watts of solar for a total of 1000. Even though I know 2KW is likely necessary.

Happy Thanksgiving to all

Both the same radio. I believe the only difference in the package is what antenna it comes with. GMRS tuned or Ham tuned. Both radios can be changed to either GMRS, Ham or Normal which is unlocked.

That's kind of the way I've read it too. I consider broadcasting like music or a show, not just sentences periodically. They ain't coming for you anyway. How do they know you aren't talking simplex and they just can't hear the other person?

As long as I keep the voltage proper it'll be just fine. I currently have it on constant voltage at 14.5v and the current will vary and get lower as it charges. The BMS will take care of it if something goes awry and shut the battery down.

Just picked up my first LiFePO4 100Ah battery. On sale from Amazon, pretty good reviews. Built in bluetooth to monitor the BMS. Never heard of the brand, but lots of people seem to like them so for $150 I'll give it a shot. Charging it with my variable bench power supply since I don't have a dedicated charger for it yet. Backup for my repeater.