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Nice. I had to find a 'no drill' solution. The Subaru is the ladies car, and I'd be in trouble if I started making holes in it!!

What year Taco? I was looking around the rear of the cab on mine and have not seen anything of interest yet, but then, I've not pulled the internal trim either. I have a 2020 Model year Gen 3 and it's actually got pretty good access through the front bulkhead on the drivers side. While I was at it, I pulled a snake line through the passenger side for a later addition

Glad it was useful. yeah! That privacy code thing….yes, it really is just a tone. Worth noting that if you are chatting to someone with ‘privacy tones’ turned on…it’s not private. Anyone without the tones setup on their radio, but on the same frequency will hear you.

Just to note, the GXT3000 is repeater capable. Or so the website says. But without looking, I’d suspect that you’d be pretty lucky if they just happened to have the right codes for the local repeaters. The advantage of these types of radios is that they really are designed to be easy to operate. And TDM872, your usage is typically what most folks probably do with them. I keep a couple kicking around for this very purpose.

Just saw a video by one of our members (I'm talking about you, the Queen of all that is GMRS) and it reminded me to complete the attached document. It's something I started a few months ago and it covers the definition of a channel or Channel. It's absolutely where the problems lie in understanding more complex radios. I know it did for me initially, but hey, I'm a smart guy right!? OK, maybe it took me a lot of reading but I got there. As this is the internet, I will add that this is pretty much a first pass. I am not married to this, so if I got something wrong, or anyone can clarify something, please, please let me know. This is a community that wants to help others, which is what I am attempting here. I got a little more in depth than originally planned, but held back from going all engineering nerd on this. I wanted to keep this beginner friendly. So if you are a novice, read this and let me know if it made any sense. GMRS Channels.pdf

Mmm! Good point. The PMR frequencies certainly have that lower digit numbering, and it’s possible channel 50 got mixed up with PMR channel 7 on my radio. Interesting !

The simple answer, assuming you don’t care about repeaters, is no. Channels 15-22 are just more GMRS channels to use. Which, if your using a blister pack GXT like mine, is exactly how I view them. However, a big caveat! If you do care about repeaters, have more capable radios and want to chat over a wider area see below. Each of the channels 15-22 double as normal GMRS channels AND are your LISTENING frequencies for the 8 allocated repeater ‘channels’. Note that your TRANSMIT frequencies for the repeaters are each of the channels 15-22 with an added 5Mhz offset. I might draw a picture tomorrow.

Thanks TDM827. Appreciate the response. What really got me going was that all of the channels except 50 confirm to this list I got from an online PDF about the channels, below. Note that 50 is listed as having a DTC code and is 462.7250, which is different from your radio as well. With mine, it's only 0.0125 off, so still works....but yeah. Interestingly though, I bought a two pack...and they both exhibit the same issue...so whoever was coding them that day was having a few issues I suspect.

Yep, I'm aware. but thanks for the reminder.

I scoured the net and found that the general consensus is that there are few ways to get an antenna into the cabin of a Subaru without inflicting some damage to grommets, bulkheads and the like. Just for reference, I did discover that above the wiring grommet on the passenger side front door there is a bung. It sits below the upper hinge and above the wiring harness. I popped it off and shoved an inspection camera snake in there and found that there is also a hole into the cabin about 2" below it. Mine was partially obscured by insulation, but, with careful work with the inspection camera snake, I managed to get it in behind the glove box. I won't go into all the gory details, but this turned out to be a really great way to get cable access. I now have a Ghost antenna mounted on a ditch light mount on the passenger side and it's cable runs neatly through the fender into the hole. I mentioned in a previous post about using the DB20-G for when we road trip together in the two cars, now, I can drop that into my lady's rig when needed and it's a clean plug and go! No mag mount and dodgy wiring needed. Hopefully useful info for folks that are considering routing options for the Subaru.

I'm sure he'll be along shortly. I'll be keeping mine, they come in pretty handy when we get visitors and go do some 'vigorous outdoor exercise'!

I will add....that it's close enough to the next channel that it actually works.....but it's also not what's published in the manual. Which is why I had issues to start with!

I was setting up my UV-5G Plus radios with a matching set of frequencies for my GXT1000 radio's "extended" channel list, just gives us more options of pre-programmed 'coded' channels to match up with the Midland crowd. I coded in all of the Midland channels 23-50 and tested them...only to discover that channel 50 is off channel. I tested all the channels between the UV-5G and the GXT and it did not work....so I set the UV to listen mode and lo and behold, the GXT is transmitting on 462.58625! That's not right it's 0.0125 below the GMRS Channel 2....ooops. Anyone else with these radio's, and the ability to check, want to confirm that theirs does it too? I won't bother with hassling Midland about it....I mean, I've never used channel 50, and am not likely too...but wanted to see if this was common. Kind of an odd one to let slip through!

Well....I'm sitting almost exactly 30 miles from the top of Mt Bachelor here in Central Oregon. I was setting up one of my mobile radios with a MTA 26 antenna and noted that I was hearing 'ski chatter'. We're getting some good snow today and there are folks up on the mountain making the most of it. You can actually see the mountain from my house (when it's clear), so no real surprise, but I can bet they are all using blister pack HT's! Turned on one of my CCR's (UV-5G Plus) and was still hearing it with that although a tad more crackly. So yeah! A little altitude and a clear line of sight does a 'lot' for communications. There's a HAM repeater on top of that pile of dust, but not a GMRS repeater. Not that I'm too worried as I am a licensed HAM, but even so. Would be useful to have both options!! Image below taken with one of my long lenses. you can see the chair lift to the peak.

I've got mine plugged directly into the lighter. I'm assuming that they thought about power spikes. I do have some connectors coming so I can plug it into the battery though. I'll cut the lighter plug off and re-do the end so I can use either or. @WSHB443 I attached my code plug for the unlocked radio. It might give you a start point. I'd copy off the default one on your radio before you do anything else. This one has my listing of the GMRS and FRS channels and only two repeaters...so you can edit those out and put in your own. This could be useful for anyone else that wants a default setup for GMRS that's not too complex. Note I also have dual watch turned off and only displays a single channel. You will also want to edit the start up message in the config too....it's got my calls sign in there. DB20-G Settings Unlock w Repeater.dat