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I am more concerned with damaging my HT due to reflected power over performance. Perhaps I’m just being over cautious. Yea I’m not that crazy, I’m just trying to get something that doesn’t damage my radio. Where can I buy this, Amazon is sold out?

I promise this is not clickbait, but more a question as to what am I doing wrong. I’ve heard a lot of guys on my local repeaters proclaiming that the Nagoya and Diamond antennas are the best HT antennas that money can buy. I’ve also seen similar things on the YouTubes. So I grabbed one of each. However when I test my antennas on my SWR meter they are showing higher sometimes dangerously higher SWR than the stock “rubber duck” or gooseneck antennas that shipped with the radios. I am almost certain I am doing something wrong, or not understanding something. Radio Equipment: BF UV25, BF UV5R, Moto APX7000 Testing Equipment: Surecom SW33 Procedure: Radio>Meter>adapter>antenna touching the body of the SWR meter as directed for ground plane, testing on low, medium, high power Diamond SRH805S VHF: Unacceptable borderline dangerous with a VSWR of 10.56 across all radios and power settings, high of 12.1 and low of 6.2. Diamond SRH805S UHF: SWR is almost perfect. Averaging VSWR of 1.15 across all radios and power settings, high of 1.49 and a low of 1.1. Nagoya NA-701G VHF: Did not conduct this test as it would not be fair for an advertised GMRS antenna to be tested on VHF. Nagoya NA-701G UHF: Marginal performance averaging VSWR of 2.036 across all radios and power settings, high of 2.6 and low of 1.04. Rubber Duck VHF: Acceptable performance averaging VSWR of 1.86 across all radios and power settings, high of 2.78 and low of 1.01. Rubber Duck UHF: Excellent performance averaging VSWR of 1.47 across all radios and power settings, high of 2.1 and low of 1.01. Gooseneck VHF: Acceptable Performance averaging VSWR of 1.584 across all radios and power settings, high of 2.29 and low of 1.01. Gooseneck UHF: Excellent performance averaging VSWR of 1.01 across all radios and power settings, high of 1.01 and low of 1.01. TLDR: why am I getting higher SWR on the “better” antennas than I am on the “rubber duckies”?

I can not speak to the specific software or the programming cable you need for that radio, BUT I have an M2 MBP, in parallels I can’t seem to get cables to work. I have tried an APX7000 and CPS33, Harris XG100P with RPM14, and several different “cheap Chinese radios”. I’m sure there is something I could do to fix this issue but I am not an elite hacker, so my warning is this. Assuming it works at all it will not be plug and play. note to add: the softwares for all of the above mentioned radios work just fine, just can’t read or write the radios.

I am trying to understand the mental gymnastics and it's not going well for me. The FCC prohibits data transmissions over GMRS repeaters, but I’m curious about the specifics. If someone were to send short digital bursts (like APRS-style packets), how would that differ from an audible Roger beep? What about MDC1200-style ID tones because I hear those on the repeater all the time? Looking forward to hearing thoughts from those more familiar with the regulations and enforcement side of things!

Well that's...unfortunate, that post/comment was so bad in my feeble mind it HAD to be sarcasm. My current main programing rig is a M1 MacBook Pro and chirp runs natively on MacOS. I currently run /\/\ CPS33 fine until it's time to actually program the radio and then it doesn't work. I have to send the file to my desktop and run it into the radio there. So even though the software for the S65G and Q10H run fine in parallels I am worried that they will suffer the same fate as my /\/\ software. Thank you for that info, I have been looking into the Q10H, S65G, and Q935G the former because they come in blue. I have played with the stock software for them and they seem awesome, but see my reply to WRUE951.

You got downvoted a lot, I am guessing most people don't understand sarcasm. I do and think this is hilarious.

A HT or mobile, with high selectivity, clean transmissions (minimal spurious emissions), able to be programed by chirp. Nice to have a zone feature but this is not necessary.

New to the San Marcos area, met a couple of really nice guys on Alamo NB the other day. He told me about yall's monthly net. Unfortunately this month I will be working way out in Gonzales County so I doubt I will be able to join. Looking forward to meeting people. Is there a way to listen online? EDIT: I noticed the Alamo City GMRS website is down, is this permanently?