OffRoaderX

and risk a hefty fine or jail time? It's your choice, but is it really worth it?! SOURCE: "some people" on this forum.

If you have a callsign (GMRS or H.A.M.s radios) anyone can look up your name and address on the FCCs website - so basically, every time you say your callsign, you are also saying your full legal name and address.. ....unless when you applied for your license you used a PO box or a service like HamRegistry that lets you use their address to keep your address private.

I'ma have to agree.. The OP is a great example of "some people" over-thinking what should be very simple and carefree.

Please help @Socalgmrs achieve his dream of being the most-ignored user on MyGMRS by hovering your mouse over his avatar and clicking the IGNORE button - most people here have done that already. He is working hard every day to achieve his dream by leaving useless, unhelpful, opinion-filled comments demonstrating how socially-rhee-tard-ded he is every time he leaves a reply. The basic steps are to find which repeater-channel your repeater is on, switch to that channel, go into the menus, enter the Transmit tone, and save it, and you're done! You can ignore the Receive tone for now as that is optional and will only confuse things.

Most 50Watt GMRS radios do indeed put out 50Watts, within an acceptable +/- % tolerance.. Further important information: You can add a user to your IGNORE list by hovering your mouse over their avatar and then clicking the IGNORE button. When done with the right users you will limit your MyGMRS experience to only actual helpful replies.

Another helpful comment chock-full of details and data. At this rate it won't be long before you have to change your user-name again to hide from the ridicule/people laughing at you.. Just like you had to do a few months ago.. as to the question: If you have the newer model, it lets you switch between Wide/Narrowband ONLY for the channels that allow Wideband.. Channels 8-14 are narrowband only per our friends at the FCCs.

I thought it was the Midland radios that you, and everyone you know has issues with? Seems like you and "everyone you know" has issues with a lot of radios...I recall you once posting a comment proclaiming that "everyone you know" always throws their Midland radios directly into the trash right after they buy them.. So I am pretty sure that anyone that has read your previous posts (including before you changed your forum-name to hide from ridicule), already disregards anything you say.. I have owned 30+ Wouxun radios, Wouxun radios were my primary radios in both of my Jeeps for several years, and I have a dozen or more friends/off-roading acquaintances that that use them - probably around 100 in total, and never, once, ever, have I, or anyone I know had any significant issue with any of them.

Depends on what model and year it is.

It matters a little.. A superhet radio will have slightly better sensitivity to pick up weaker signals.. Slightly better 'selectivity', so it will ignore static/off-frequency noise slightly better.. But yah, most normal people would never notice any differences between a superhet and an SOC/HOMOdyne... HOMO...dyne.. Type radio.. As to the question: IIRC the GXT67 Pro is a partial/modified superset receiver.. Meaning that the receive side is superhet but the transmit side is not (or visa-versa) - But that is just going by memory - and I just woke up, so, that could be wrong.

It's very easy - you just state your intended "business use" on the form. It seems they are more interested in taking your money than confirming what you will be doing.

I have had 2 or 3 50V2 radios and none of them output more than 32W (iirc) .. When I called BTech about it I was told the low power reading was because I was measuring the power with the antenna connected instead of with a dummy load.. So I purchased a dummy load and the power output reading was the exact same... When I measure my KG1000G radio(s), they all read 48-51Watts.. This is one of the reasons the BTech's are inexpensive- because they lie.

Here are some things to check/consider: Are you sure you are on the correct REPEATER CHANNEL? Are you sure you are using the correct TRANSMIT TONE? For simplicity, remove the RECEIVE TONE for now, it is optional Try driving closer to the repeater - just because you can hear it does not mean it can hear you.

I'm with you brotha! I use it primarily for off-roading and on the trip to get TO off-roading and it busts my britches every time i hear the H.A.M.s radios wanna-be's long-talking on the repeaters.

You spelled Dork Side wrong.

The preset Repeater channels use the standard 8 frequencies so if you want two repeaters that both use Repeater channels 19, you will have to either: manually go in and change the tones when you want to switch repeaters OR add/configure a new, custom channel using the same frequency but with the different tones I do not recall off the top of my head if the MXT500 will allow you to create custom repeater channels/change the existing ones, so others will have to chime-in because I'm too lazy to look it up.

I dont recall anyone else in your other threads confirming they have the same problem... Hopefully in this thread everyone will leave comments to confirm the truth about this major, widespread issue, proving what a shill I am, because everyone knows how I never say anything negative about any radios ever because I only say what my handlers tell me to say.

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What, exactly, are you confused about? What is it you are not able to do? FIND repeater? USE repeaters? Something else?

I have had and used ~25 KG series radios, and all of them worked as designed so I've never had any need/reason to "test" them. have you had actual "issues" using them, or did you just test them and assume that because the results were not 10000% accurate, that there were "issues"?

Wrong - I think what you meant to say is "it depends on where you are transmitting and what is around you"..

A typical 5-watt (GMRS/UHF) signal can easily reach 15-50 miles in the right conditions. The moral of the story is that the topographical conditions in your area determine farz more than power. Source: I have tested ~100 GMRS/UHF radios.

You did not say what model Baofeng you have (they make a LOT of radios), but most Baofeng models do have Simultaneous Receive (TDR) as do most TidRadios.

It might help if we knew what kind of radio you have.

Based on my testing and experience: NO

We were actually standing at the Ft. Irwin fence along the southwestern edges, reading the "you better not go past this point" signs when we were hearing the guys in Death Valley.