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Midland and others make off road antennas. I have abused the heck out of them with no issues. AND they don’t need a ground plane like a ghost or mx26

That’s one of many reasons why I’ll never own a midland. Gmrs antennas do not need chassis ground. All they need is a good ground plane. Two totally different things. A mag mount t of paint will never have a chassis ground just an fyi.

Sorry to hear about the h8 I wouldn’t want to own one. Is it a gmrs radio? Not a ham? Might be you need to swap it to ham? Or it’s just out of the radios band?

Seriously if it works great. I would not count on it working very long but it may get you through. But for the $530 price tag a good used 40w Motorola can be had on eBay ready to hook up coax and antenna and go.

It’s not Montana but here in the high desert of good old southern crapafornia we still have a bunch on our higher elevations mountains. Usually it hangs around until June or so and shows back up October It’s a nice thing to look at every day.

No you do not need a duplexer. You just need radios that you can put into repeater mode. BUT if you don’t your antennas will need a bunch of vertical separation. The good news is a duplexer takes about 50% of your wattage so a 50w radio with a duplexer is sending about 25 out the back. But then again good coax and a good antenna can make up for that. But if you don’t use a duplexer you’re going to send 50w out to your coax. Sooo…

Anther solution looking for a problem.

Actually what was clairified about repeater linking by the fcc is linked over phone line and internet. It is still and has always been ok to link via radio waves. Just harder and more expensive to do. as far as it being in the rules. THIS right here is why every one needs to read the rules BEFORE paying your $35 fees. When you pay your fees you are swearing to the fcc that you have read AND understand the gmrs rules. Ignorance is not an excuse. Just read. Do your own research. 1/2 the posts on this site and all over the web could be deleted if people would just do research before asking to be hand fed. In this world no one has any excuse to be ignorant in anything.

If you have ever needed to carry a ruck for any length of time you and others would understand my point. If I’m hiking for fun and I just want to hike to the top of the highest peak and talk to strangers I’ve got an ht. It does 60miles easy. If it’s a shtf type of thing I don’t want to waste valuable weight dragging around a radio that will be mostly useless anyway. Your support of this tells me about your life experiences or lack there of. Food water and protection from the weather and people is priority not a useless radio. Besides what type of coax gonna use? Light weight and full of loss? How high and how is an antenna gonna get? one more thing. You’re wearing a bomb. Lithium is not stable. If it charges to much fire. If it discharges to much fire. If you drop it fire. If it gets to hot fire. If it gets to cold fire. See the pattern. Fire bad. So your hiking for the fun of it and you slip and you dont even know you damaged the battery untill your bag is in fire. Then you set the whole mountain on fire. .

The kg1000 is nothing special especially for the $390 price tag. It doesn’t do any more then a $150 radio does AND what is does do it does rather pourly. And yes it’s locked so it can be “certified” All the wouxons are gimmicks and nothing else Oh except yea some guy in Huntington Beach California programs them with a bunch of shtf junk frequencies very few people want or need he has done a good job at advertising. woxoun is the baufang of china.

Might wanna buy a programming cable. Or a good radio and a programming cable. Can you return the radio still?

I’ve got a 9nc and it works amazing. I was only getting 200miles with my 712efc and a 20w. Now 250miles with the 9nc and 20w and even more hooked to my new 50w.

Well it looks like you’re not a member that would help. From there is pretty easy. In fact it’s so easy many people do it by accident.

Why? New gmrs users literally just told the fcc they have read and totally understand all the rules for gmrs. It makes you confirm this BEFORE you pay your fee. Any one that didn’t read the rules when they said they did committed fraud. This is the ultimate in spoof feeding. If some one want to know the rules THEY need to learn to find it them selves. Geesh

This is why I do my research BEFORE I buy a radio so I only get only radios recognized by chirp. As for basic radio programming we have some what knowledge as well. I have somewhat knowledge enough to know not to buy only retivis only is for trash can.

Nope. They are I. General a total rip off. First I take care of my stuff. Then if you have a warranty they probably rate you to death. The reality is warantys are a total rip off and if you take care of your stuff and don’t by garbage you wo t need a warranty. But I’m sure you buy the junker new car with an extended warranty and road hazard with your cheap tires. Then get upset when your junker is in the stealership for months. Or buy the db20, h3 h8, midland rugged ect….then have to send it back and deal with the manufacturer because it’s junked out of the box.

You can use any 12v battery you want from a very small one to a huge one you would not want to carry. Just like any other 12v dc based mobile/base radio. The real question is why would you want to carry it around when a 5w hand held and a basic 771 antenna can do well over 60miles line of site. And add a better base/mobile antenna and you’re gonna hit 100miles. What’s the infatuation with dragging around a base/mobile 20w radio? If it’s a shtf situation dragging a round a big radio and battery is not on my list. Food water and other brass essentials are.

Welcome. What got you into gmrs? What activities do you do with family and friends that you need comms for? Great hunting in Montana? Hiking? Horse back riding? Camping? Off roading……? Repeaters are the extra but gmrs is for comms while doing something fun out doors

I’ve literally never used a warranty in my life. Never needed to.

As in your call sign plus a unit number such as a wife, husband, father mother child brother….. so wrwr123 unit 2.

No don’t use it. I just listen. But what you’re experiencing on a repeater is squelch tail. No one should be talking before the tail drops. If you start talking before the tail drops your lumped in with the previous station on the talk out timer. Usually 2-3 min. If everyone just waits for the tail to drop it shouldnt be an issue. I also leave it off because if I need to break in for an emergency or priority I can.

I LOVE!!! post like this. No info at all just a problem and a plead to fix it. But how? We know nothing about the situation? It’s like saying my car doesn’t run right what’s the problem? I’d bet it’s something very simple that has been over looked. Or it’s one of the many radios that have unexplained issues right out of the box. please give more info like already asked. Even a screen shot of the programming if possible.

Oook.

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Omg 6HOURS without noaa? if we only had any other way to hear about the weather!!!! Maybe someone should invent a World Wide Web and put weather info on it!!!! Some times noaa goes down. Sometimes for hours sometimes for days. It happens. We just have to learn about the weather like people did 50, 100, 200…… years ago.