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548, that is awesome improvised setup. Props to you for getting on the air. Crutches and all

Doesn’t upset me a bit either. Wish him the best with his radio and I hope he figures out the issue.

I was told by the amature operators on our local gmrs repeater that you aren’t allowed to use that type of radio on gmrs.

Awesome! Did you have to join your local HAM club to get it ?

Absolute most I can get here is 7 miles. Omni base at 40ft transmitting to my pickup with a 5/8 over 5/8 magnet mount. These rolling hills and forests kill gmrs.

My scenario is two Ocean Kg1000plus radios. I only communicate between my base(home) and my pickup truck. Both using the kg1000plus. Would you guys reccomend turning the companding feature on both radios? Ive read a bit about companding as it compresses the audio and the other radio expands it when received and as a result it helps rid some of the extra noise and hiss from the transmission. Curious what you more knowledgeable guys would do in this scenario. Thanks.

I use chirp and select uv5rm it works perfect.

Wow! You can back with an update 4 years later. Good on you! Your a rare gem in this post it and forget it forum world.

I’ve got two kg1000g plus’s. Each on a dummy load tx 46 to 54 watts depending on the frequency when measured on a surecom102. Pretty awesome radios. But I do need a scanner to cover the analog frequencies I can’t scan with the kg1000. Although I was able to put most of the Air and Rail frequencies into the kg1000 which is rad af.

Perfect. Thank you. I realized what I thought was an issue isn’t an issue at all as the channels I was referring to using aren’t “designated” repeater channels to begin with. Although as I understand it these channels can sometimes have active repeaters on them. So I need to be aware of that. Thank you.

I realize now, that the channels 15-22 are not pre-programmed gmrs repeater channels. When I made my initial post I for some silly reason thought they were repeater channels set with an offset. So essentially this ENTIRE thread is pointless.

Thank you for your reply. I guess I was kinda confused and now you mention this it all makes sense. I even pulled up the gmrs frequency chart and managed to forget this simple fact you have mentioned. Big DUH moment for me I guess. Thanks again guys.

Transmitting on channels 15-22 in simplex mode, with no +5khz offset programmed. If I have gone in and made sure the radio only transmits on these channels simplex frequencies by removing +5 offset then is this considered an ok practice amongst GMRS users? Am I ok to operate on these frequencies so long as I've removed the repeaters input freq? I did my research of the local area and picked a channel that doesn't appear to have any repeaters on it. Then I removed my radios ability to tx that freq +5khz. My local geography requires using 50 watts for simplex and I don't want to be operating back and forth with my family if it might be interfering with repeater users. I only use the minumum wattage necessary but where I live it takes a full 50 watts to talk 3 miles because of the rolling hills and forests. I guess I'm asking if I'm being ethical running 50watts simplex on these channels? I always ask if the channel is being used by anyone but in my sparsely populated area the only repeater(which i don't use) is quiet and I stay off its frequencies. I rarely if ever hear anyone on our local repeater and the only thing i get when scanning the band is the rare frs users at a park across town. Thank you.

The button that activates "B" channel is a "pf1" or "pf2"function button isnt it? Can you go into OD MASTER and adjust what this button does so it no longer transmits? Or maybe make it do a different task? Just thinking outloud here. I'm not sure if its possible. I too think it would be nice to disable that button, as its super easy to accidentally transmit on the wrong PTT on this particular radio.