OffRoaderX

You can't.

Never gunna happen... Bookmark this comment and let's follow up in 5 years so I can say "told 'ya so!" ...

...because too many of them tell lies and fairy-tales to make themselves look more important...

There is no rule or regulation that says these frequencies must be "transmit blocked", and, nobody asked anyway..Stop making up lies, its making you look ignorant.

I do not recall the exact name of it, but there is a Menu Setting that you can change to show name, frequency or channel.. Might be called MDF or something like that.. Find it, then set it to 'name'.

Yes. Try getting closer to the repeater and/or confirming that you have the correct code and that the repeater is actually online.

A road has intersections, stop signs and stoplights.. A highway, aka a freeway, does not.

All the cool-kids use GMRS Ch19..

Not if you bought it on Amazon...

Wait.. How does linking a repeater across multiple states monopolize every channel?

Why don't you tell us what "best" means to YOU, then we can focus on those attributes.

No because i mounted the antenna on my chimney.

I got my repeater up for under $1k .. Not the biggest/best in the area but it has about 900sq miles of coverage.

Me too... I HAD two brand new RT97L's that I could have used to test this.. but I gave them both away.. Now i'm kicking myself and I wish I was not so kind, unselfish and loving toward my fellow-man... Never again!

The only way to know for sure is to put a meter or portable antenna analyzer on it and test it.. But, like the @mb523 said, its not going to work very well.

That page does not come up for me.. But lets also take a moment to remember that Retevis also posted on their website and on Youtube, a video showing/proving that you can add their 25W external linear amplifier to the original RT97 and it will then output 25 watts.. They even showed a power-test on the video to prove it.. ..... Until a big GMRS youtuber came along and called them out by pointing out that it would output more power but it will not be able to RECEIVE anything because the amp is placed after the duplexer....and if you placed the amp before the internal duplexer that was rated for 5W, it would destroy it... Then they deleted everything....

Can you provide a link to this description?

But that's not what he said he has.

Go ahead and tune your UV-5R to 122.750 and tell us how that works out.

You got 2 duds.. I've been seeing more and more reports of this (here and on the big GMRS Youtuber channels in the comments).. getting more and more common with the H3's..

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is a whole lot more to DMR than H.A.M.S radios networks.

No.. Too much risk, not enough reward.

There is an aerial acrobatic group that practices out here every Thursday and they use GMRS (or FRS) channel 6, and I've wondered the same thing... But haven't wondered enough to bother looking it up either.

This!! Testing the SWR of an HT antenna is impossible without very sofistikated equipment, OTHER than confirming that the antenna is not just a dead-short.

I think you are confused about what we are talking about. This is the microphone/handset - these are the only controls on the radio.