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Thanks a lot for your reply. It is helpful…... my bad for posing a question that must have been beat to death here.

My bad. Someone musta bumped this old thread and I didn’t notice the date.

Op what route did you go an is it working ?

Is there a reason there is a sudden “avalanche” of licensees? Did something happen to suddenly make these licensed 2 way radio services popular ? Possibly the prepper movement?

OP what route did you go and how is it working??

I really like the h3 as well. It’s a Fantastic “beater” ht and one of of mine has been a beast taking all kinds of drops and falls and still working great. Loud speake and significantly Better RX than baofengs and easy menu editing.

Thanks guys I did multiple factory resets. Switched to gmrs mode with factory programming and no output wattage. Did the same with ham mode as well no output wattage there either. Kinda at a loss at that point and just sent them back. Super weird. They worked good out of the box. But subsequent resets did not fix them. (tested into a dummy load)

Purchased a two pack of h3’s. Checked their power output when I opened them both were about 4.4 watts. Connected them to the antennas, and programmed them with chirp for local repeaters. Radios Wouldn’t connect to repeaters, I checked the power output and nothing. Tried the other h3 from the same pack. Nothing. wow. I’m scratching my head trying to figure out if something I did fried them or if this just happens with these cheaper ht’s? Can keying an ht next to another one fry both of them? I have 3 other cheap ht’s that work perfectly yet these two died instantly after the initial power meter test. I try not to ever key a radio when it’s within a couple feet of another one but if I’m being honest I did do this on these by accident but I’ve done this to my other ht’s a time or two and they all work fine to this day. sent them back. Hope these h3’s aren’t super fragile and pop their finals if they get any sort of rx overload from a close transmitter but that’s the only thing I can think of that might cause this?!? I would think this could damage a RX section of a radio not the transmitter section no?

But only in low light where its ability to send RF in even the dimmest of atmospheric conditions is better than a non dim light spec’d one when operating in late evening or at night.

Don’t.

Yeh buddy!!

Can you recommend a list of currently manufactured gmrs type accepted radios? I’m not being sarcastic I genuinely would like to know what the good ones are.

Are there any current manufactured type accepted gmrs radios that you can recommend? Check that your radio is in fact set to GMRS mode and not Ham. It may not transmit on gmrs frequencies if it is set to Ham mode.

Have you simply done trial and error by, wait for it, trying ctcss rather than DTCS and see if your problem goes away?

A close friend of mine who I talk to regularly on gmrs has two v2 50 watt btecs. Both work perfectly and sound amazing on my end. He’s only going on 3 months of use but they have been good radios for him. Ymmv.

The GMN1 gmrs radio is a similar form factor but even smaller. I was wondering if it has been discontinued?. It was a tiny little thing. Think it was a Retevis. I looked all over internet for it to buy and can’t find them in the usual places.

You’ll have plenty of gp on any skidsteer. OP get a mag mounted 1/4 wave if the height of a 5/8 wave is too much, put it behind the cab glass. Done. Prolly fish the cable through the left or right sliding window and carefully shut it on the coax. We do this with strobes and work lights on our skid steers. Could also lift the cab access the engine bay and run the coax along the foot plate up through the floor holes. Drill hole through the floor mat edge or something of that sort. Pretty awesome your trying to mount a gmrs mobile inside a skid steer. I’ve never been that brave cuz our skidsteer operators are absolute savages and not in a good way lol also the tid h3 is the only radio loud enough for me to hear in a work environment and I still have to wear it on a jacket with a nylon radio clip area right next to my ear

To update this: friend ordered the same antenna as me(gp9nc) from a different comet dealer. Both antennas come with the ham band paperwork and show the working frequency as 155mhz to 465mhz(close enough for gmrs of course) Both antennas had paperwork that stated "Ham bands only". Not a big deal at all but as a new buyer you would be slightly concerned thinking maybe you got sent the "other" gp9n available rather than the nca. Anyhow carry on. Thanks guys ya'll always offer tons of info to me so paying it forward with this post if anyone else comes across a similar concern.

First off blueloctite ALL threaded connections. Mount and antenna! My opinion is an antenna on a spring hard mounted to an nmo directly to the machine somewhere would be my reccomendation. Even if you have to weld a mount tab to the machine. The antenna will be able to bend and deflect alot of impacts that way at least until the very base of it gets smashed. Im currently running two mxta26 antennas on heavy iron, one on a 390 size trackhoe, and another on d6 dozer. Both of which have held up fine but concrete dust is starting to corrode one of them pretty badly. I'm a big fan of the mxta26. My two have been going for about 3 months now no issues. But I really like the idea of a ghost mount as well as that would be easy to fit on a skidsteer but I feel like if it hit something it wouldn't be resilient at all.

️ nice reading in that thread. I’ll look it over.

Thanks! I figured it was in the rules somewhere. My apologies for my lack of reading skill lol

This is a double post but I’ll add it here because it seems more relevant: what’s the rules defining the difference between a fixed station and a base station per 95.1767? Base is legal up to 50 watts yet a fixed station only to 15watts. What makes a station a “fixed” station.

In GMRS rules 95.1767 it states a fixed station must not tx more than 15 watts. It also says base station no more than 50 watts. What is the difference between a fixed station and a base station per their rules?

I just got one of these antennas and the paperwork with it does not show it covering 467 MHz. Think it cut off at 465mhz. Has me wondering if maybe the newer gp9nc antennas aren’t purpose built for gmrs….anybody know? Ordered from engineering and their online showed it covering to 470mhz. . . Then my paperwork that came with my gp9nc said ham only. Ugh ? Wish I had an antenna analyzer to check it before I put this thing up.