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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.

https://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2022/11/list-of-gmrs-frequencies-and-channels.html there’s all you need to program it so you can have gmrs frequencies. Mind the power settings as well. Use CHIRP software. Chripmyradio.com Be careful not to mess it up or you’ll possibly end up transmitting on hospital/school/county frequencies that you are ABSOLUTELY not allowed to do.

I prefer to activate car alarms with a 1000 watt transistorized spurious RF master blaster on 11 meters. I kid I kid it’s just a joke chill

Gmrs doesn’t have “do it yourself channels”. They are all pre-programmed.

Is GRMS different from GMRS school?

That is awesome to hear. Maybe I’ll use some gmrs repeaters more often hearing your pov and knowing you actually want to promote the use of the Johnstown one. I’ll see if I can hit it reliably on my drive home from work today!! And I wasn’t being rude about the “guys who build big repeaters comment”….. if it came across that way(?).

As a relatively new gmrs user, I myself don’t use repeaters often because I know they are owned by people who put alot of time money and effort into them. I didn’t help them. I just found them listed on a website as “open”. And as such I feel like if I get on those repeaters im tying up their air space, using their resources, drawing their power and cycling their machines of which I did nothing to help with. So I try to stay off them unless absolutely necessary despite them being listed as “open”. I’ve never for a moment thought the big repeater owners actually wanted traffic on their machines by anyone other than those they give permission or those that are in their close knit groups because that would put wear and tear on their system by people they don’t even know. Maybe I’m off base. Maybe other people feel the way I do and it could be the reason a lot of useless tiny coverage repeaters pop up. I personally would rather see 1 repeater convering an area well than 4 covering it poorly but who am I to make any comment on the subject as I bet repeater owners prolly feel like everyone just leeches off their hard work which is what goes through my mind every time I key up someone’s “open” repeater. None of this is sent in jest or malice whatsoever. Just adding into the conversation is all. Huge respect to everyone keeping the positive vibes and RF pumping off their towers and over the airwaves.

Ok, that’s kinda what I was thinking, but of course, after purchasing it I read multiple comments about only being able to use TC type connections which I assume means compression style like the Messi-Paoloni ones? Oof I may just cancel the order tommorow and reorder standard lmr.

Ok, so I may have made a minor mistake. I ordered Ultraflex lmr400 to replace a 80 ft run of rg8x. I ordered connectors for lmr400. Are standard crimp on and solder lmr400 connectors not going to work with the stranded Ultraflexlmr400? One end is pl259 other is type n male.

What is the output power of a 5 watt ht when it gets to the antenna after traveling 100ft up some rg213? About 1 watt. I’m calling shenanigans lol

ODmaster is terrible imo. Am I the only one who dislikes that horrid app?

Type N? Huh?