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’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.