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Well 100% reliable as long as you have internet.

Not so sure about bigger better antenna doing anything to the immutable impenetrable hill. But getting it above said hill will do the trick.

Roger.

Recognized.

One of the bad things about people writing manuals to operate things, they are the people who know how to operate them already. They forget about the simple little things that they take for granted that clueless new operators don't even know about. So to the guy who has made this and operates it on a daily basis and he goes to write it all down to explain it to someone who's never operated it and they miss little in between steps that they've just taken for granted that everyone knows how to do. I've seen it in lots of manuals where to get from one step to the next there's something missing. And that something missing is often really simple but you can't get from here to there without it. And because you've never operated this thing before you are clueless as to what this simple in between step is that the guy who is writing the manual takes for granted. This is what I mean by stupid people. You can't have the guy who is fully experienced on something write instructions about it because they take for granted that everyone knows what they know and eventually skip steps to do the process. Where as the "stupid" person is clueless and when they would right a manual they include everything to the point it's annoying to a person who knows how to do it. But manuals should be written to the lowest denomination in most cases.

This is why you need stupid people to write the actual regulations. They'd spell it out instead of referring to this which refers to that which in turn refers to something else. Reminds me of reading the NEC regulations where you need to look at the whole book every single time because nothing is stated in a sentence that doesn't refer to some other part of the book.

You already have a janky cable connecting the lights and likely brakes to the trailer. I don't see how one more cable would make a difference.

OK Randy.

Must have been in a dream.

And if you bought a mobile unit you would have to purchase some sort of antenna anyway. This is a good way to prep yourself for the upcoming upgrade to a mobile unit in the future.

Using an external antenna gets the antenna up higher and out of the metal box of the vehicle. I set up my wife with the Nagoya UT72 and a handheld microphone with an H3 radio. Makes using it much easier and gives much better range than the short antenna on the HT.

Sure, if I want to eliminate one of the main repeaters in the area. I run 2 different scans on my KG1000. Police, EMS and fire on one side and My repeater, Holyoke, Enfield and Glastonbury. Glastonbury is the one that has the DMR break through. But I have DMR interference on all frequencies 1-22. Seems to be pervasive in my area. The emergency frequencies rarely have any interference.

Mine happen at any time during the day and night. Usually more during the day. Seems to wane at night and weekends so I think it's more business related than anything else. It makes it very hard to use my scan function because it gets stuck on the noise even when it's squelched.

Yep, 50 ft, 100 ft or farther. Depends on how sensitive your radio is to desense.

If it's modem style noise that tone might actually be in there randomly and open up the squelch. I have a DMR signal that breaks through a DCS RX tone on occasion on 625 which is very annoying. I have my own repeater with a DCS tone for the repeaters TX (radio RX) and don't have the problem. So either the DMR transmit has that tone or somehow the DMR signal is activating the radio to open squelch. Very annoying.

So I was right. Basically normal landers without the height you have. I guess normal for you and I would be different because of our landscape situation. LOS makes a huge difference.

FRS 1/2 to 3 miles under normal conditions. Maybe 5-7 max. GMRS 1/2 to 5 miles under normal conditions. Maybe 7-9 max. Both in simplex. Expand on your experience. You live in a mountainous region on the high ground. I live in hilly territory where at any time you may be on high or low ground.

A "real" GMRS radio isn't getting much better than a FRS radio either. Unless you are using repeaters.

I banned his ars

I'm not getting anything either. But I'm in Connecticut.

Yes. Transmit into the repeater on 467 and you will get a response on 462

I've had mine up and running since early September '24. I had one of the originals and I had to do an update to make the DCS tones work. A second update to make the microphone active along with some menu changes. They sent me a new duplexer because the batch that was installed in the earlier versions didn't work well. I found out they were tuned wrong by sending it to Marc and he said it was centered on 800 instead of 635, not even within the bandwidth. Since the duplexer change over I've had it up and running without much hassle. I am able to get 50 watts out of the socket easily. I have to keep the power supply voltage at 12.2 volts otherwise it'll push out more. I swapped my wideband duplexer to a single channel tuned duplexer and really haven't noticed much of a difference in reception sensitivity so the wideband tuned duplexer works pretty well.

A repeater may not always give you the ID back. It's usually on a timer (15 min) and will only ID after that time has expired. If you are receiving a signal back pressing the PTT you are hitting the repeater.

Not very far from my experience. At one end of the super store it comes in pretty bad. I'm not running an airband antenna though, just a 771G. I can hear them out in the parking lot pretty clear and at times I've heard them at my house which is about 1.25 miles by way of crow. But that's rare.

I did a scan while I was in WalMart and it showed up as 154.57125. I've programmed it in and everytime we go grocery shopping I have it on. I hear the overhead announcements, manager to employee, the auto button announcement to unlock different items and of course the carriage collector. The wife and I have a blast with it.