RayDiddio

I can tell you that the repeater association (ham, not GMRS) I belong to had been dealing with someone transmitting music every night at the start of a pretty big daily net. Months of it happening, repeated complaints to FCC and zero action or even a response. A little harmful interference is nothing big to them. It took tracking them down and knocking on their door to ask them to stop while handing them copies of the FCC "rules" on such matters. It stopped. Not because of the FCC rules, but because they realized that you can be found.

Can always count on Mr Shannon. /salute

You leave your expert opinions out of this!

And some use both!

Randy's antenna is between 0' and 45,000' at or above sea level. This is why he gets to look down on we lowly peasants from his ivory tower on that glowing hillside somewhere between Seattle and Baja.

I think it just comes out the other way. But full disclosure — I am a member of RR. What I really refer to is the people on there who see a forum post marked HALP MEH! and they chime in with "do your own research" instead of just helping a new amateur. It's like with Linux forums... mostly unhelpful jerks who pretend that they were born with what they know so others shouldn't ask for help if they weren't

Fun fact: no one on the RR forums has an anus.

As if Randy needs an evil alternate account. As much as I love Randy and sometimes making him reply on YT videos by making absolutely ridiculous statements (it's a hobby), he certainly doesn't need an evil alt. Randy is just evil enough to get by.

Going to agree with Steve on this. Given everything other reply from OP it seems as though either the connector didn't go as well as thought (the multimeter test doesn't show as much as a VNA does) or something is wrong with the coax. Age of the coax? I may have missed this. How long has it been outside? Have you sealed the connectors against the weather? Almost sounds like the connectors are the source, but that is just from antenna building experience as when all else fails, it's almost always the connector.

Look at the Queen of GMRS really on point today. This thread has some good back and forth.

I have the TIDRadio TD-H3 (a pair) and the Wouxun KG-935G Plus. The H3s are dirty as all hell and can often be heard over police and fire frequencies in my city. The Wouxun is very well-built, solid feeling, has a decent sounding speaker, the control knobs feel nice and tolerant, and the signal + audio reports I get for it are always good and people often ask me what I am using and when I tell them, they are shocked while claiming they never thought it would be a Wouxun CCR. That is my experience.

Same. It performs pretty well for me and I like having it. I get better range with it than I do with any stick antenna.

Congrats! Yes, it is fun. Welcome to the hobby.

Yes. Some of them desire it.

This has been happening for a few days on my end. If it is a DDoS attack, it's likely looking for weaknesses in the system. Buffer overflows can reveal a lot of openings in a server if it isn't up to snuff. But the sad h.A.m. cartels could also be a source, as you say, or even this rogue scraperbot. I have made lots of scrapers for different reasons and none has ever gone rogue on me. Then again, maybe I was just careful. Who knows? My Source: 25+ years of IT security and systems management with coding in assembly, basic, rust, c/c++ experience under Windows/Windows NT since 3.1 and Linux since 1996 when it was just a hobby