Elbowmac

Hello, Currently a gmrs new user. Wanted to ease into the idea and hopefully will go for my amateur radio license. I am especially interested in morse code and am wondering about new techniques or resources that have become available since I last tried. FWIW that would be back when it was still a requirement for a ham license. Thanks for any assistance

Great, so far appreciating the members knowledge and assistance!

After having communicated with some of the members of the club and having begun to appreciate there knowledge, (probably) is it too far a stretch to ask a Learning Morse Code question. If so can the group suggest where I should go? No snickering!! Thanx

Again, I have run out of reactions to you guyz help. It seems that I am good for now. Possibly put up a cheap yagi on a temporary pole and see if I can transmit to operators around me who are using them. Actually I should get back to studying for the technicians license. That will explain much in a structured way!! The suggestion was to use the magnetic base and antenna... placing the cookie sheet in between where the two items connect. Thanks

I apparently have run out of reactions.... Thanks for the information and explanation. The antenna is currently on a table on the inside of a screened patio. The procedure and posted explanation was the reasoning for the grounding scheme. THANK YOU FOR EXPRESSING THE INSURANCE CONCERN! Have offers to mount an antenna on the highest part of the roof along with the cable. With the current setup I am hitting a good repeater @ 18 miles on low power on the db20g. SWR on high power 1.5 and low 1.02. From what I have gathered here and on the air, this is doing well. I take the mobile antenna in at night. I would like to get a better simplex setup. I can only hit about 7 miles to an operator using his yagi antenna. Threw n9tax gmrs up a tree about 20 feet and was able to get and talk on the repeater with the ht GM-30. Daunting is the learning experience. Many are the contradictory answers! Glad I found this forum, though it produces much possible ambiguity. Anyway thanks for the heads up.

Appreciate the support and help increasing my understanding. I find it difficult after using forums forever!! Thanx

Appreciated, I can imply some of the settings on my radios from this as well as see how this is done on a perspective purchase!

Thanks and I don't believe I will use this technique again!!

Is it true that it requires the proprietary programming cable to set the bcl and possibly other settings?

I purchased the GT-5R Pro as it was FCC certified (good citizen idea). Don't know much about dual band. I have been advised that the 805g doesn't use diy channels and thus can be programmed for different frequencies with different tones for the varied repeaters on all available channels/memory settings?! I don't require the non-conventional offset as of now. My choices are basically gut reactions to the concepts I've gleaned such as superiority of superheterodyne reception. Again don't need to spark a debate. Beauty of advertising and brand name/ term recognition!!

Thanks for your time and information! I have barely gotten past the basic setting channels and repeaters that don't require possibly half of the settings listed in my radios. Just found out about the tot use, reason and setting. My GM-30 has an offset setting, that is disabled. The manufacturer hasn't been able to provide any documentation on the function page and the channels have been hit and miss. Figured out what DIY channels mean.... 500 channels,,,,, sure!

Believe that might have been suggested but out of my current league. Will keep it in mind as learn, fingers crossed.

Thanks sir. Getting to understand the possible ambiguity in wording and rules . I prefer to follow the rules as a good citizen or at least break as few as I can manage I personally found your explanation more comprehensive and understandable to me! Not to downplay other's information! In reference to the Voting type threads this is the first time I have encountered it and it takes a bit to follow the logic 0ld dogs, new tricks

Howdy and what are some good sounding and quality radios that you have used that would be significantly cheaper than the Wouxon KG805G, if you don't mind? They are going for like $79 with a free antenna upgrade? Interested to know. Any particulars on why also, don't want to start a great controversy!!!!

DB20g mobile radio as base and a midland mxta26 antenna on a midland nmo magnetic mount base. It is currently on a cookie sheet extended outside by the installed 16' coax on the mag base. I have been advised to get a lightning arrestor between the radio and the antenna cable connector. Ground the arrestor to a house ground. Then to drill a hole in the cookie sheet to allow the nmo base electrical connections to pass through the hole and then screw the antenna back onto the nmo mount. It was explained that this would give a ground plane to the antenna as the metal cookie sheet would contact the ground of the antenna and mounts coax ground and then to the ground wire on the lightning arrestor, to earth ground via the house grounding system. I hope I explained it adequately. This would turn the metal reflector (cookie sheet) into a real earth ground. What benefits will this provide in protection and reception? Thanks