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Yeah heard the weather was just about perfect. They did say that the infield was a mess. But it was just the design of it.The weather was great. A bit warm on Friday and sunny. Saturday it rained a bit early in the morning. By 10 AM everything was dry, NO MUD, partly sunny and it cooled off to the low to mid 70's. Looked like a really good turnout.
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On 5/25/2023 at 8:22 AM, tweiss3 said:
How has it been working for you? How is the bluetooth programming?
Bluetooth works fabolous for programming. Haven't had an error yet during programming. But the radio is close and fully charged. Only negative with this style of programming is you plow through the battery life.
Bluetooth works well with the headset. There is no separate bluetooth profile for PTT buttons, so that is kinda out. I believe there is a bluetooth hand mic that will work but its from Harris (might be a Pyrme retag) and it is expensive as well as rare.
Radio has been working great. Its my go to radio, was a BF8HP then a Anytone 878uvii +, now it is the Harris.
The biggest cons are no APRS, duh. No Bluetooth PTT profile. Cost and Weight.
I was told a guy at Dayton had a cache from a police department of the XG100P. They were full feature set, new in box, with the charger, battery and antenna. One of my friends said the serial numbers and feature set matched the invoice which was in box. He was letting people buy "1" for around $450. He said the line was incredibly long (of course it was)
God I wish i could of gotten one. But I didn't even go.
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It is rough... since yes it's 2x the cost of a tram/browning of similar design.
Looking for a low price point stopped me from recommending that style of antenna. My personal vehicle has a Diamond NR770HB, with that design spec.
But built at a different level. So might as well throw it out there, especially with "best" being at the top of the list.
He will have to decide his budget. I think the Diamond is a better antenna. But I WANTED survivability, which influenced my choice heavily.
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Unfortunately ³/4 wave on 70cm. My testing showed.. meh.Try this one: Super-Elastic Signal Stalk — Signal Stuff
Going to buy another to mount as 1/4 vhf, cut down to fit a ⁵/8 gmrs coil. I need the flexibility. Plus a lot cheaper then 2x sti flexi.
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If you can run a 1/2, 5/8 over 5/8. You can get both bands nicely. 31" sounds like a lot but if it is a flexible type then it won't matter.Thank you for the responses. The ground plane will not be an issue, since it would be on my vehicle roof. However, I am moving in about a month, which means I lose my enclosed garage, so I think I will wait since height will no longer be an issue at that point. I'll also decide if I prefer VHF or UHF to make things easier
Can't tell you how much abuse my larsen 2/70b took when it was on the roof of my suburban. Most parking garaged by me are 6' to max 7' clearances.
Now try to add gmrs into the antenna mix. Slim pickings and most are incredibly stiff to get the coverage from 2m-70cm-gmrs. They end up being chunky inflexible antennas with barely acceptable performance.
Nowadays I try to avoid tri-band antennas. They sacrifice too much, especially in performance.
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Should mention 18-20" 2m antenna is going to be 1/4 wave and 3/4 on 70cm. They will almost always require a groundplane.
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Really kinda tough like Marc says.
Mainly because 1/2 wave 2m ⁵/8 over ⁵/8 uhf is going to be about 31".
Really, any 1/4 wave 2m , 3/4 70cm antenna will work. ³/4 wave is just terrible from my real world testing but mostly on the transmit side, it received well. So any of the company's that build it will work equally (about) as well. Tram browning larsen etc. They are all going to about 18-20 inches.
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Yes lscott. Those are additional benefits.
Another one is most large retailers have cheap frs radios on the shelf. Alot of the are gmrs capable.
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We actually are doing that here because of multiple repeaters on the same frequency with different tones. Lots of cross repeater chat going on now. Just gotta let the repeaters all drop before next person keys.Assuming those are the correct tones (I didnt verify), then, yes.. You can simplify even more by omitting the RX tone, which is optional.
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Could be why i was told to disable it.I've noticed that problem before too, not exclusive to Motorola as it showed up on my Kenwood HT over P25. I think it is more related to the Noise Suppression (or ANR in Kenwood) in low background noise situations. ANR is designed to cancel out sirens and industrial noise like fire truck pumps, and when its looking to remove a loud noise that isn't there, it causes problems.
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Impressive aren't they?If you are a Jeep enthusiast and love to drive around with your doors off, but hate that the road noise is so bad that you can use your radio, I highly recommend getting an XTL5000 or another Motorola model that was designed for use by first responders and has noise cancelling microphone features. I have had a total of three XTL5000 radios and I have never realized there is a noise cancelling feature before this one. This feature absolutely rocks.
With every mobile radio I have every owned, I could never drive around in a Jeep with the doors off because the tire hum and wind noise would make it so my voice was washed out. It made the radio unusable while the Jeep was in motion. I decided to mess around with the mic auto gain control and noise suppression. I found that I can have the roof and doors off and still use the radio. I have aggressive 37" tires that hum so loud, that with the wind and tire noise, I can't talk to my passengers if the doors are off. BUT... now I can still use the radio!
I setup my home-based FTM-300DR to record and went for a spin. The slowest I was going was 45 mph, at the very beginning. The fastest I was traveling during this test was 70 mph. I'm pretty happy with the results. You can hear the processor work its magic when I first start to transmit.
Warming popcorn for your install of the ftm500.
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True not true.Easy, just use BNC connectors for quick swaps between HT antennas, the mobile antenna in your vehicle, and the mounted antenna at home! No more “stress” on those SMA connectors…
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The bnc relieves the stress created by installing and uninstalling a cable.
The type of cable, how it is comming out of the connector and the angle of said cable all apply stress.
Those Abree 48" long tactical antennas put a lot of stress on the sma.
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Make sure the keypad isn't locked before you try to reset the radio.
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Outside of some of additional (small) loses from connectors, it might not look as clean as a base install.
I can not think of anything but potential damage to the sma connector on a handheld from either connects and disconnects or strain from a heavy coax on the connector.
I can not think of many downsides.
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You will need the accesory cable and connector use the remote on wire and tap into a 12v switchable powered source (car am/fm radio wire/fuse is the favorite).
Then go into cps and configure the ignition sense under radio information/accessory configuration/ignition sense type.
Then, when ever the ignition energizes the wire (in example above car radio). It will auto turn the radio on. Turn off the car and it should go off. Unless the remote wire is connected to a power delay accessory. Then it will turn off when the wire is not powered, usually at driver door open or some pre-configured time out.
EDITIED to clarify things because I suck at explaining things the first time around.
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I know you are messing/joking with him.Fail! There's no periods between the letters H - A & M!
It's not an abbreviation...
Sheesh!!!
Next you'll be asking about which provision in Part 97 mandates the Roger Beep!
We should just be as informative as politely possible and encouraging as we can be. Especially, when someone is asking for help. Could turn them off, more so if they take it the wrong way.
/rant Overall impression, I get from non-amateur radio people is that we can be condescending, know it alls that bitch too much about everything. Some of it true, especially since we do most of the self policing.
Can't tell you how much of the public safety/lmr groups think we amateurs are a joke and don't want to invite us out for events. With our relay forms and other politics and attitudes. Then those same guys praise people like Marc, can't tell you how many times I hear " I trust Marc and his small group". Because why? They do everything possible to get the objective done, then cross the tees and dot the I's later, with minimum fuss or bs.
We should aspire to be the best spoke person for the hobby
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Still love your comment but I get it. Not everyone will.
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Think he is referring to the gmrs radios capable of data burst, they can not have removable antennas.You may be confusing the FRS rules which mandate that the Antenna on every HT MUST be non-removable!
My reasoning is that the fcc didn't allow it to limit range. Can you imagine somebody strapping an 11 element yagi. They want that type of shanigns on the amateur service.
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If you can take the practice 3x and pass each time with about 85%. Your are way over ready to take the test.
Remember, you just need to pass. No one will ever know the score.
Study for the general and technician at the same time. They crossover informatuon for both the test is like 75%.
If you pass the technician, they will let you test for general on the same day.
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Yes, mobile installs are all comprimises. You want about 1/2 wave length of the longest minimal separation, if you can. But that is not always possible.Thanks for putting that up here. I like his videos but had not seen this one. This product may be pricey but it sure is a clean install and that would be worth it to me. I have a question about the version that has two antenna mounts, is there any issue with having a ham antenna and a GMRS antenna so close to each other?
I have about 8 feet from my 2m/70cm antenna and gmrs/70cm antenna. I noted the other night even when transmitting at 5watts on the 2m/70cm antenna (I was using 70cm fusion at the time). It was tripping out the xtl5k (gmrs/70cm) really badly. Like opening squelch on a frequency, i was scanning gmrs repeaters on the xtl5k. From my calculations, it was about 30MHz difference.
The physical radios are some 6 feet apart. One in the glove box. The other on the third row molle panel.
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One of my fireman buddies has about 4 nmos in the camper top on his super duty.
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Good to know. A lot of stuff just barely works for gmrs and the other frequencies.I have a diplexer and a triplexer and they are both good to 500 MHz or above. I checked The Antenna Farm's website and all the ones they carry that are VHF/UHF split (no HF or 220) go to at least 470 MHz, with most going to 540. Cost is around $50 or so
I will have to check again.
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I tested (in the amateur section of the forum) it optimized for 70cm/ gmrs. Wasn't messing with the vhf side. It worked but for gmrs/70cm it's a 3/4 wave design, so it was just a shade above 1/4 as far as transmission and reception.Take a look at this antenna. It does work well on GMRS a is a 20" length. Super-Elastic Signal Stalk — Signal Stuff
I would NOT recommend it for gmrs if that is the primary service. Might be good for vhf, as well almost look like a factory antenna.
My recommendations doe antennas.
1/4 gmrs/uhf for repeaters.
5/8 over 5/8 for fringe repeater and simplex. B4505 series.
5/8 b4503 series for mixed simplex/repeaters for those with clearance issues.
Slim jim roll up ( toss it as high up a tree as you can) for base camping simplex/repeater work.
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