OffRoaderX

They have rest stops/charging stations along the trail, one at least.. I happened across one in the Holcomb Valley above Big Bear while off-roading a few months ago. primitive bathrooms, shower, and solar panels/batteries and hookups for charging.

Someone should make a video on Youtube explaining how simple it is to do...

They have a mental/emotional defect that makes them crave power and control - often because in their life, they have none.

More elegant.. easier to move around, less hassle, less wires.. Most important: higher wife-acceptance factor when using on the kitchen table.

I was in Sequoia a week or two ago and as we were driving around we came up on several people pulled off the road looking at a baby/small bear just off the road... Everyone was in their car.. except for ONE non-english speaking (spoke Russian or something) woman.. and her TODDLER trying to walk up to the bear to get pictures... Every time they got within about 5 yards the bear would trot away... I left before momma-bear came out to teach her a lesson about Darwin.

I did the same thing when i did my distance personal best when hitting a repeater at 92 miles.. I could barely hit it, but when switching between 40W and 110W, it made no difference at all - people listening reported 0 change.

But the laws!!! and the fines!!!!! Ohhh the fines!!!!!! Is it worth it?????

When transmitting on an HT and using the HT rubber-ducky antenna, power output on GMRS or 70cm does not matter when in the range of 2 to 10 watts! ...change my mind....

I stand by my last statement: It doesn't matter/the FCC, based on their enforcement record, does not care. I know.. Everyone does.. The ones that claim they don't are the ones love them the most.

"Technically" ? No "Does it matter one little bit?" Based on the number of non-Part 95E GMRS repeaters in use for the last ~10+ years and looking at the number of FCC enforcements for simply using a Part 90 repeater on GMRS in the last 10+ years (zero enforcements), also, NO

That Terry dude has really made me reflect on my behavior in a life-changing way.

We are talking about GMRS, and there are only 8 Repeater Channels but they can have whatever number/name you want to call them. They are generally referred to as Repeater Channels 1-8 or, or starting after channel 22 - Channels 23-30, or labeled as their shared simplex channel names "Repeater 15 - 22".. ..and in the GMRS world we never need to use the term "offset".. On a GMRS radio one does not have to think or care about the "offset".. This term is usually only used by "some people", for unknown reasons .... actually we know the reasons, but I am far too nice to repeat them here.

Use channel "Repeater Channel 17" or "Channel 25" not regular channel 17, with the correct transmit tone. You have to be close enough to the repeater for them to work — just because you can hear it does not necessarily mean it will hear you and work. Your two radios must be at least ~50 feet away from each other when testing. Disable/turn-off the receive tone on both radios for now — the RX tone is optional and at this point in your process may only serve to create confuckulation.