OffRoaderX

I bet his family calls him "Gail the Snail" ...

It's the only way he can get attention.. He clearly has no friends and i'm sure his family all ignores him, and he obviously never had any genuine respect at his job. But here, he has figured out how to get people to notice him. It is horribly sad, but, he's retarded, soo.....

I think you might be lost.

What about all of those junky/crappy radios (Midlands, TidRadios, Retevis, Wouxun, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc) that were "junk" - and you "threw straight into the trash can" ? Are you staying that instead of taking advantage of the warranties on ALL of those radios that you seem to know so much about and have told us you purchased, and "threw straight into the trash", you never even once considered getting a replacement instead?

Is that what you kids call it these days?

I will share my experience as soon as mine arrives.

Fair enough - but the question was "has anyone ever been affected" - not 'is it, or was it ever possible' - BUT, I did as you suggested, and as you can see below, the answer to my question is "it has never happened" - OR it has happened so few times there is no record found of it today.

Can you point us to an example of that ever being an issue.. for anyone.. ever? Even just once?

He's referring to the RT97L, 50W GMRS repeater. I'm curious - was your 40Watt repeater new, with a warranty, is it FCC Part 95 compliant, did it come pre-programmed with the GMRS repeater pairs, was the duplexer pre-tuned for GMRS, is it portable, and water proof, and does it automatically heat up to remove snow/ice when used outdoors in cold weather?

I'm going to squirt some opinion anyway, even though you already know it. The likelyhood is a fraction higher than zero - it's not absolute zero, but very close to zero.. Its funny how "some people" will proclaim that my cheap little CCR can't talk more than a few hundred yards, yet, one minute later they will proclaim that the same radio's spurious RF emissions will bring down a 747 at 38,000 feet or jam an entire police department's communications system from 5 miles away. YES! at least, some do. I have seen this myself many times when comparing my XTL5000 radios in both my Jeeps to cheap radios in Jeeps just a couple of feet away - it actually happened yesterday. Our friend's radio was completely unusable when we were about 1/4 mile from a big antenna tower site, and the XTLs in my and my wife's Jeeps were silent. and this has happened many times. It is doubtful that any decent LMR radio would ever be affected by the spurious emissions from a 5w HT miles away.

I considered myself a semi-radio-dork and thought I knew everything but after spending days trying to figure out how to use the Motorola CPS to try and program my first XTL, i HATED everything about radios and was ready to throw the thing against the wall!

Do you really think that any of these radios would be a good choice for someone that has already stated they prefer a Midland for its simplicity and that a simple Midland "meets his needs" ?

That doesn't matter. as long as you have 2-inches or so of metal on all sides around the bottom, and no metal is blocking the signal (ie; like if was mounted in the bed of a truck), you're fine.

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Contact their support and see what they say - if they give you the run-around, or dont help, just send it back and tell them to send you one that works or give you back your money. Amazon makes this VERY easy to do.

IF you 'fried' your radio, it was not because it was connected to a Ghost antenna, unless that antenna or your wiring is defective/shorted. My guess is you've messed up a setting, which is statistically far, FAR more likely than any damage to the radio.

What version and flavor of Windows are you running?

Did you read the words in the Setup Guide? It pretty much tells you exactly what to do. Is there a specific step, error, or problem you are running into? What, exactly do you need?

Works fine here. Must be user-error. Try again, but this time click the button harder!

its fun and entertaining at first, then it just gets old.. I've found it more productive to add him to my block list.

That is because they don't make GMRS radios - You might find some Motorola GMRS or FRS radios, but those are the cheap/low quality type radios, not the high-quality non-GMRS radios he is referring to. Basically, just ignore him because he is rheet-hard-ed.

Because you dont have the exact same equipment/antenna/power/whatever going both ways?

Maybe? It would probably help if you told us the name of this particular group.

Because sometimes that's just how radio-waves work. Not sure what other answer your looking for.

Looks like you answered your own question. There are only two possibilities: You have a setting wrong Its out of range/out of LOS