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So then all tdh3’s come compliant for gmrs even one buys the ham version ? I guess I could look up the fcc id numbers but that would mean having to do a bit of research and I’m at work lol.

Is the gmrs version of his radio (tdh3) part 95 compliant ?

You can reset that radio to be GMRS. Just reset it and you will be gtg. I think you press the ptt and the blue key at the same time while turning it on. Then select gmrs.

I’ve always wanted to get the surecom version and test it so I could get a real feel of range in my areas as I’m rather new to uhf but honestly I’m leery it would make certain people mad and as much as I like to play radio with my family I sure don’t want to aggravate other users on the freqs. So I’ve not gone down that path and instead beg my wife and kids to give me radio checks ever so often

Can someone post a link to the Y adapter option for this radio? I’ve got two of them and may need to run an external speaker at some point. (posted to follow this) *edited

Bahahahah this is great

Unfortunately call sign has to be given in English. But you could use Morse code as an alternative to English phone identification.

Heck yeh man. I worked at mt baker when they broke the world record for the most snowfall at a ski area in world. Baker is so sick. Artist point. 542. One of the heavy equip operators got drunk one night, drove his 4Runner off the side of 542, stole the loader at 2 am which had square V log chains on it, and ran it down the highway to pull his runner out. The state police were looking for him the next day. Did thousands upon thousands of dollars of damage to the asphalt. Place was absolutely wild. Baker is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been. Pure magical in the wintertime. This was before cell phones. The only comms I had when I was there was by letter mail.

I drive truck a few times a month. (Think CDL Kenworth t880’s mostly) I spent 12 hrs with my ht on scan during a day trucking in and around my capital city and I constantly hollered on ch20 and ch19 gmrs. No one is monitoring these channels. The only activity I got all day was when I passed construction sites where they were using frs to com with crane or equipment operators and laborers. Cb had all kinds of trucker chatter and useful reports. Overheard some locals chatting on a non gmrs frequency that the local gmrs repeater has gone down in use a lot in the last 4 years. Kinda bummer. But at the same time might be better for me as I only use it for my family coms and for that less random radio traffic is better.

Hahaha yeh if you lived on a lake or the desert. You gmrs users who speak like this make all of us who live in the more wooded foothills scratch our heads. We are lucky to get 4 or 5 miles simplex on a good day.

If your antennas are tuned well and the system is working right, then most of the time an antenna isn’t going to reflect much wattage and will have similar output to what a dummy load would. But if you’ve got a shoddy system with a sketchy antenna tune you could easily lose watts before they get turned into rf as they simply wouldn’t make it out of the antenna but would return to the transmitter in the form of heat.

I can’t hit repeaters 10 miles from me but I can hit a couple others that are 25+. I can talk to my north/northwest but talking south/southeast is impossible. Those Appalachian foothills are a bugger. Seems to me 462 mhz doesn’t work as well in the woods as 27mhz

CB absolutely does require grounplane and its radiation pattern is affected by it as well. But I was curious how the two difffering frequencies would see eachother mounted that close...... be cool if I could run both like that with no ill effects. I figure I'll have to do some real world testing.

I've always preferred to run my antennas center of the cab to give me the most omni-directional signal as possible. I have a pickup truck and was thinking of running my gmrs magmount 5/8over5/8 antenna infront of a base loaded wilson 2000 cb antenna. There would be about 1.5ft between the antennas loading coils. Does anyone know if this setup will cause one of the antennas to become a reflector of the other and make me extremely directional? What other effects might this cause if any? I'm more concerned about their proximity to one another negatively influencing my gmrs range, as gmrs is what I use to do coms with my home base often. And unfortunately it seems I'm always on the fringes of gmrs service so I'm pretty concerned about the negative effects if there is some. CB is only for interstate road trips and takes a backseat to my gmrs all other times. If this is more in-depth than gmrs ever was ment to be I apologize and you can leave this thread to die in the weeds of the forum. I know I tend to get a bit obsessive about details. I apologize.

From just listening I believe the only users of gmrs near me are ham radio operators. Which is cool!

I use it to talk to my kids and family when I'm out and about town. Keeps things fun and the kids like it. They holler at me on the home base all the time and ask when im coming home, what im doing and if ill pick them up some ice-cream. Is this the proper use of GMRS? Because thats what I'm using it for. I could use a phone but whats the fun in that?

I sent you a message on here or a pm. Whatever they are called.

Ive got a chinese radio that also is right side deaf. I can go to one side and kerchunk repeaters and get all kinds of response from them. But if i go to the other side and kerchunk them, I get no receive back on that right side. It sucks because it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. If I switched the freqs to the same on both sides and key up on the "deaf" side it will transmit fine and the other side of the radio will pull in the rx perfect but the right sidee i tx'ed from will not. I sent it back. We will see how the customer support is. So far so good and good quick response for return shipping labels and what not. So I'm hopeful.

Nice! After messing with it on my cell I think I’ll have to fiddle with it on a home computer. The site is hard to navigate with an iPhone.

Can you enlighten me as to what app that is showing your “radio path study” ? Looks cool.

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.