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Right here thanks to WRUU653. Post #34 Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

MARC, has a video of a presentation he did to an offroad group. Which might answer several basic questions for you. It is somewhere on this site. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

But in the middle of the night? It occurs due to temperature inversion. Maybe it was ducting caused by an incomming storm, maybe? Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Seen that one. I think it works great, especially if you don't want something like a havis console. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

I have buddies that get nuts and yes they will try to route lmr400 or 600. Worth it? I don't think so they are much thicker and stiffer. Bend radius is like 1 ft, make it tighter and you damage the insulator and will have terrible performance. Ever notice how losses are measured in 100 ft? 4-12 ft is hardly worth it going to thicker lower loss coax, personally. On a 100-300ft run yes it's worth the cost for aircore or lmr600. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Whom ever has the stronger signal wins. Hence the stomping comment, sorry this is how fm/digital fm work. The other transmissions will be lost. This is irregardless of tones. You put tones in people just wonder why transmissions aren't getting through or seriously broken up at times. If you are sharing a frequency between parties you will want a business license or amateur radio license and utilize dmr/moto turbo. This was designed to reduce collisions via color codes and time slots. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Most use larsens or motorola nmo. A lot of times they have better solder joints and materials, and cable. Not huge differences than Chinese nmos, but why bother for what $8.00 difference. With lip mounts depending how often you open and close the opening. You still deal with the negatives of routing the cable through openings like a mag mount. Negative to most nmos are they weren't designed to be exposed on the bottom thus possible water intrusion is a factor. They were really designed to be used in drilled through panel installations. Done properly and avoid serious whack they rarely leak. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Wouldn't recommend. With tones you don't get more bandwidth. All the parties will stomp on each other during transmission without knowing. Once carrier is being used, irregardless of tone the frequency is being used. Tones just ignore the transmissions and doesn't break squelch unless the tone matches. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

We have multiple repeaters in this area that are on different tones. The repeater owners do a good job self coordinating, there are problems sometimes. For the local area users, this sounds great. Till they learn they have to change their behaviors. You can either run no pl on receive, you get to hear all the landscapers and kids on simplex. Me I just run "monitor" for a more than a few moments before transmit. To make sure the carrier signal is not occupied by the other repeater. Why? Doesn't matter what the pl is if the carrier is taken. You will get collisions If both repeaters transmit at the same time. There is a benefit now though. Cross repeater talk. Both parties on both repeaters use no pl or monitor. One party transmits, second party waits till both repeater tails drop then they the second person transmits. Woot, you effectively have linked repeaters legally, and now have one huge repeater where the coverage effectively overlaps. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

What new information do you speak of? Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Cool. Played with my friends icom 7300, from a user stand point it was a more pleasure experience then the ftdx. He sold both and got a ts590, set it up with a sdr and panadapter. Funny enough I think he is crazy happy with the setup. Loves ft8, 5w to europe, 10w to Australia. That is with a 46" ultimax dx snaking through his kitchen and living room that i gave him as a bday gift. Gotta keep reminding it's a random wire and incredibly inefficient. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

If you aren't using some type of cat control, which i recommend for the yaesu hf radios, especially since a computer is probably already hooked up to the radio. I recommend cat knobs. The one I have for the ft991a is discontinued (I believe) he's switched over to a touch screen interface. Either way it had 4 programmable knobs, that sit above or below the radio and is daisey chain able. It was a game changer I am only a technician, but listening on hf was a real pain with everyone running different bandwidths on ssb stc. It allowed me to program one rotary dial to something like bandwidth size, freed up a programmable on screen button, btw that you yaseu but why can't I add more that 4n ever heard of scrolling menus or swipe arrows. Either case it let me have quick access to thing I would be adjusting just so I could listen clearly. Instead of the dread 3 button menu clicking. Sdrconsole and omni rig took care of a lot of other complaints. Link to cat knobs to give you an idea. https://www.catknobz.com/ Miss the old radios because of the simple lack of knobs on new radios. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

That is part of the negative of modern digital transmission radios, well a lot modern radios. Everything is buried in menus, buried under another menu. Yaesu being one of the worst, I think Icom does better with the menus. I inadvertently pull up memories of high school calculus, when trying to adjust even simple things like squelch on the ftm400 couple that with it always is kinda done when driving and it becomes painful. Those that complain, about Uv5r programming need not look at some of the higher end radios. I have copies of the manual, on my phone, in glove box, at home and a travel back pack. I push rtsystems, at least it is fairly consistent across multiple radios, does most what everyone wants. You have a really good chance on finding a setting. Too bad they have nothing for LMR radios. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Yup. Only reason I didn't upgrade the ftm400 to the ftm500 was the lack of a touch screen. For me the ftm400 was a nice analog radio, main selling point was aprs. The touch screen was deal breaker, for the ability to write aprs sms messages, aprs winlink, and simple aprs text. Each to their own, I guess that is the moral of this message. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Nah. You kinda described the negative. I think all healthy opinions should always be welcomed. It's negative, berating behavior that shouldn't be tolerated on a forum. Sarcasm, jokes etc are hard to read/pickup on at times in text. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Well he has the radio so he is going to be forced to learn the advance features to use it, not a bad thing. It will convolute the learn path, let's face it digital is a side path with its own learning hill and concepts. He'll be fine. Just do some basic research on questions, before asking someone. It will limit the side branches of topics, there are a lot. I have friends that can spend hours just talking about pl tones, from why some tones are better than others, it's history etc. My brother who works mobility for the federal government said it best. "People buy flagship phones not because they need it but because they can, most don't even use 20% of the phone capabilities. Even myself and you whom are phone geeks barely use more than 50% and we are serious power users." Features go unused that can cause headaches and vulnerabilities. Enjoy the radio. If it becomes too much buy a ceaptacular bofeng uv5r, it's pretty basic and disposable (as a gift, if it get destroyed oh well). Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

No. It's required for wirex. Plug your gmrs call sign or we'll part of it. You change it later, or revert the radio to factory. Kinda $$$ for not having a license. Would of chosen a straight analog radio to practice with. Since there are features that won't be used on systems like digital ID, groupid or group monitor. Don't worry about sounding like an idiot. We all started somewhere. Tell then you are new, the otherside will normally congratulate you and will take the time to answer your questions. Ham does not equal whatever notarubicon makes us sound like. There are as@holes in every group. We do self police (fcc wants us to) some are way too fundy and the grump comes out. At least it has not turned into the wild wild west like uhf-cb and 11m cb. Enjoy... and have fun. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Need a bit more info. Can you clarify the problem? Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Yeah you can tell by certain people, the way they speak and what codes they use. Their back grounds become apparent. I too try to keep all the garbage out as much as possible. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

It really depends on the local ham groups a lot. As an amatuer radio operator you know a properly set up repeater can be pricey to install and operate. Although places like your where there are an abundance of out door activities I agree it probably would be nice to have several overlapping repeaters. But who is going to foot the bill? Government, nah they probably have their own setup and put low value on a public available system. In our area we got super lucky. Old federal communications guy with a bunch of old left over gear public saftey repeaters, personal professional grade repair instruments, the knowledge of 500+ of us radio geeks in his head. Just to let you understand Marc, from the mygmrs, is probably the only guy that could pick up when he is taken from us. But even Marc, whom by the way managed some of the local ham emcom repeaters will probably admit he can't even shake a stick at him. Actually, Marc is one of the few hams that I think our friend even likes or thinks is knowledgeable. With a lot of handshake and his time we probably have coverage that some cell phone providers stare at and go can we do that? If you want it you might have to champion it. Both financially and with the knowledge. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

It will work. Pretty much any length antenna will work to a point. Depending on size and frequency it might be a bit deaf. The closer the antenna is to resonant frequencies the better it will work better. Hence, why long wire antennas, random length or resonant are perferred for mw/hf listening even on sdr radios. The rabbit ears will work but are limited by their size. With a gmrs antenna tuned to gmrs frequencies. That is where you best frequencies of reception will be. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

True. I always wished we had more hf privileges, small slices with low power cap. More inline with the foundations license in the Uk. Too bad SHF and EHF gear is so pricey looks like it could be fun to play with. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

It's kinda exploding, if I get the gist of the thread due to the following. 1. No technical/skill block. -really a poor excuse technician license is easy. -applying for an lmr simplex frequency can whack you about $500 depending on the cordinator. 2. Cost of entry -cheap ccr radios -Ability to use old LMR gear Really can make repeaters affordable or down right cheap. -business abuse frs a bit, let's face it lmr service can get expensive, if you don't coordinator. Contributing factors, cell phone outages want for e-comms, covid boredom Murs is still available, limited in frequencies. Not exactly sure why it isn't more popular. A lot of it does come back to $$.

Think you need the programming cable and to be on later firmwares to flip to wideband. Don't have the radio so couldn't be exact. Hopefully, some one will chime in. The TJ 4.0l where awesome till you tried to jam on 35". Then it got pricey.. I think a CJ with a v8 swap is more fun and to the nature of jeeps. Although my land cruiser might not be set up for rock crawling (old 100 series) she is damn comfortable on the highway and off trail. All my friend's jeeps (even my dad's jku) beat the snot out of me traveling to the trailhead and on the trail as I get older even more so. Most mobile radios can deal with high swr so as long as you have some ground plane, or have a ngp antenna and didn't botch the install you should be fine. All the years, off trailing, fire roads and such. Never heard a peep on 2m/70cm calling or on gmrs for emergencies. We'll except for kids on frs in the neighborhood. Has to do with the trails around here being sparse and I wouldn't call it technical, unless oversteering between trees is your thing. Orv parks are a bit different. No one even responds, when I am following aarl wilderness protocols. Most of the gmrs/frs usage near trails that is heard for me at least, are parents calling their kids or the occasional spotter screaming driver, driver side, driver side...omg.... Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Sorry thinking 6m Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk