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Wonder if they’ll also do an h8 plus??

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Gmrs is kinda unique. It’s pretty much used to communicate with only people you know personally. I rarely ever find it used as a radio service to make contacts with random people. That’s more of a ham radio or even cb radio thing. I personally found it surprising how few people use gmrs, so to fix that I built my parents a base station and I set my father in law up with an ht and a 5/8 wave mag mount on their metal roof so they too have a base radio. This made it a bunch more fun. Otherwise gmrs is just boring and rarely if ever hear anything on it other than repeaters taking up the entire high power spectrum of the channel list

Dang man. I’ve had 3 new neighbors move near me who replaced the old timers. None of them want to share numbers, or be neighborly at all. Absolutely odd af to me. But I guess that’s the difference in 15 years as I’m the old man on the block at mid 40’s and all these kids work from home and never leave their house. Thought it would be good to get to know them since there around all the time but nope. They have zero ability to be a neighbor whatsoever. Don’t even look up to wave when I pull in the driveway. Weird generation. Can’t believe their parents brought them up to become that way. Neighbor block watch around here can’t work when the neighbors don’t want to know your name.

I like how loud they are. The higher pitch speaker makes them easier to hear in loud environments than other ht’s. Also, mine has a glitchy thing where in wide band on receive it will sometimes exhibit it a sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sound when a frs radio is on the same channel transmitting. Switch to narrow band and this goes away. Never noticed this on my ocean or baofeng ht’s when communicating with frs radios.

I’m 2 for 2 in good radiooddity radios. Their gmrs db20g and. Mb3 cb. Both working very very well. But….i ordered them from Amazon

Same here man. Couple times I thought someone was going to break in to my house. They say don’t judge a book by its cover but when a mini van with busted windows, broken headlights, no exhaust shows up with a side sliding door missing and two guys in it….you tend to grab the Glock real quick. But alas just another Amazon delivery

I ran a ut72g ontop of an excavator for half a year. Switched to an mxta26 and instantly thought "wow" I can hear airband a good bit better now, and I could hear the cheap frs radios the construction workers used with broken off antennas way better.... seemed to just have an overall better receive. I cant PROVE this, but this is my perceived experience with the ut72g.

It is in this part of the state. Heavily wooded. Rolling hills.

Oh yeh, just listen to the repeater channel for a few minutes, then before transmitting do a quick call out maybe asking if the channel is clear, and then have fun contacting your family and friends. Show some etiquette by leaving a break in your transmissions every so often that someone else can call out to use it if they so need to and then get back to chit chat. I personally don't like chit chatting over repeaters wwith my family but I think thats just because I know the coverage area is soooooo much wider and I find it odd knowing everyone within 30 miles can hear a booming signal over it. So be aware of what info your putting over the air.

gotta be a linked repeater running here in Ohio, checkins from indiana, kentucky, westvirginia, ohio. I can't imagine its not a linked system as when it ends they mention shutting off a certain node.

ut72g is a total meh antenna. The best thing is it fits in a breifcase, or could easily be shoved under a seat.....every single antenna ive used has been better.

If guy is asking these questions he surely probably shouldn't be putting up a repeater whatsoever. Just my opinion. One should get ahold of all other gmrs users in the area and do alot of research in the local community to see if there are other repeaters already available that would work for his purposes. I also believe someone putting up a repeater should spend ALOT of time in their radio use area listening to the gmrs channels and scanning the entire gmrs service to get a feel for what channels are used often by which people. Nobody owns the airwaves but it is a really good thing to be vigilant about what and who you may be causing issues with when deciding to just randomly slap a repeater onto one of the repeater channels, which if i had to guess, this fella probably doesn't even know that some channels aren't legal for repeater useage and others are actually intended for it. But I digress....... just my input. At the end of the day do what you want but first put in the work to try and not negatively affect your local gmrs community.....

People. It’s government. They aren’t ever going to make anything better.

You guys are great. I thank you all.

I seen Arcadian and antenna farm. I googled antenna farm and Over on radioreference forum they absolutely bashed antenna farm and pretty much said stay away…..never heard of Arcadian. I will check them out. Thanks. And yeh I see there is PcTel, Laird, and Larsen offering 11m nmo mobile antennas but it doesn’t seem that there are alotnof places stocking them.

I have ordered gobs of things online and never ever had any issues for decades. That is until I decided to order an nmo cb antenna. First order was on ebay, for a 27 mhz nmo browning antenna. It got lost in the mail so I was told. So next I went on amazon and ordered a Tram nmo 27 mhz antenna. It shipped, and has been stuck in a different state now for 4 weeks. So its a loss too as Amazon said it likely won't move from that location. Placed another order for a browning low band antenna on amazon and it came bent in half and broken. So now I'm down 3 for 3 on antennas......and am wondering if you guys have any goto places that sell nmo type 11meter antennas!? So frustrating. I know I can get an nmo to 3/8" cb antenna mount conversion but I'm trying to keep the sleek low key look of the nmo style and that would defeat my purpose using a bulky adapter like the opek or other ones. Thanks.

In my neck of the woods alot of the in between gmrs freqs are taken up by school systems and school bussing and school janitorial.

Am I the only GMRS user who is kinda frustrated with linked repeaters on gmrs frequencies. The more I’m using gmrs the more I’m realizing the frequency allocations for it just doesn’t leave enough space for linking on this service.

Let me pile on a bit then; when you set a priority channel to scan in the background do you find it causes any incoming signals to have breaks in their transmission every couple seconds?

I’m fairly radio savvy, but I find the db20g to have an odd “cryptic” way of accessing features etc on the radio. I’ve had one in my truck for a few weeks now and i just can’t seem to get comfortable making sense of the button sequences to do certain things. The radio talks like a boss. I think the only way I’m going to like it though is to set it up as a base and sit at home playing with it a lot! It sure is not intuitive in the way it’s laid out. And the stock speaker is not near loud enough for a pickup truck. Don’t even think about having a window cracked and being able to hear the receive.

Why do some of the gmrs repeaters get what sounds to be a digital signal transmittting from them for long periods of time. Say 5 or 10 minutes at a time. It’s an awful sound annoying as all get out. What’s with that? Id imagine it makes using the repeaters(not that I use them but very very rarely) all but impossible when it is digitally transmitting …..

Same here. 27mhz makes simplex gmrs look like a joke in these woods.

Are you getting a tone or cw id or squelch tail back from the repeater with one radio and not the other?

I get about 4 to 7 miles simplex with 50watts and a Retevis rt87 base antenna ontop of my ranch house. Y’all be thankful you live in the open. I’m shouldered by trees and rolling hills covered in forest.