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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