OffRoaderX

The equipment will work, but nobody will be able to accurately answer your question about whether or not you will be able to hit the repeater. The only way to know for sure is to try it. However I would look into some of the other repeaters in your area that may have coverage where you are: Crestline, DILA, Santiago, & Mesa Crest.

You lose points, and credibility when you send the OP on a wild goose chase with incorrect information.

Great idea and great advice! ....too bad Chirp is not compatible with the UV-5G Plus..... But other than that, great answer!

I use a Midland MXTA26. I used it when I had the KG-1000G installed in my Jeep and I still use it now with my XTL5000. I also have an MXTA26 installed on a cookie-sheet in the window of my office for my KG-1000G+ "Office base station". The MXTA26 works no better than any other similar 6db antenna, but it comes pre-tuned for GMRS right out of the sack so all you have to do is plug it in and play.

That depends on how you define "best" and what is important to you in an antenna.

A: Put the radio on Repeater channel 3 (it might show as Repeater 17 or channel 25, I dont remember).. Go into the menu and find the TRANSMIT CTCSS setting (you may have to refer to the user manual), select 123.0, and save it. 2: Hold the front of the radio near your noise-hole, press the trigger, and talk. If you saved the tone correctly, if that is the correct tone, if the repeater is online, and if you are within range of the repeater, you will be able to hit the repeater.

The Q10G antenna is not supposed to be removable and it is glued on. Mine had only a tiny drop of glue so it was very easy to remove the antenna, but I have seen reports from dozens of people who could not remove theirs and a couple that even broke the antenna or the housing trying to remove it. I dont know about the Q10H because I don't have a H.A.M. license so I'm not allowed to touch one.

My thought is user-error. Channel mode and VFO mode are independent - one does not reflect the other. The best way to check the frequencies in channel mode is to change your display setting to show the frequencies (instead of name or channel) - when checking this way is the frequency correct?

Yes. Probably more than real radios.

are the radios at least 50 feet away from each other when testing?

I have owned/used pretty much every GMRS radio made since ~2020 and have never seen one that can do this.

You should ask the guy that recommended them to you.

at a minimum, all you need to do is put the radio on the correct corresponding repeater channel, go into the menu and find the CTC or DTC menu (depending on if it is a CTCSS tone or a DPL/DTC tone) for TRANSMIT, select the correct tone from the list, and save the change. I know you said you are not "technically inclined" but I assume you know how to read, so you might have to read the manual for the exact steps. Only worry the transmit tone for now, the receive tone is optional. That is all you need to do.

Lots of things arent permitted and lots of people, including the FCC, based on their record of enforcement, do not care - and what you "believe" doesn't really matter. When the FCC actually begins to be serious about enforcements, then it will matter.

Based on my tests of both radios, they absolutely will talk virtually the same fars.

The 50V2 is an SOC.. Also known as a HOMODyne radio... HOMODyne... You can tell by the price, and because nowhere in the sales literature do they brag about it being a SuperHet radio.

Jeezus...

Try tapping the '6' button.

I'm just being careful to not answer like "some people" that come in and decree something as if it is set in stone and has no variables and could never be anything different from what they once experienced or read in a book.. Those guys make themselves look like R-tards, and they're all over this forum. I crave to be different!

Usually, in most cases, generally speaking, most of the time, for most people, on average, and assuming there are no issues with your cabling or connectors, you will get better send and receive performance using an external antenna vs using the HT antenna INSIDE the car. I would expect the external antenna to work a little better than the stock antenna outside the car, but not hugely. Dont forget that you are losing some power through the coax, connectors and patch-cord, so that could negatively impact the performance.

are there any other radios nearby? Is it a 'screech' or is it a tone of some kind, like an error tone/noise/sound? Either way, doing a full reset should unscrew whatever you did if it comes to that..

GMRS is primarily Wideband except for channels 8-14.

Or what cable..

I stuck your comment into the AI version of me and this is what i said:

I didnt take a very big computer.