OffRoaderX

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.

Whaooo.. Let's not get carried away!

..Geezus krist.... My guess is that you will never find anything perfect enough to purchase.

Looks like a CCA!!! (Cheap Chinese Antenna).. But the reviews aren't bad, and at 1/2 the price of the Tram (which i have), it looks like a decent deal.. Of course, someone will come along and post "you get what you pay for".. But sometimes you pay less for something that does the job just fine...

BTech GMRS 50 Pro.. I would give you mine but I literally just gave it away on Saturday.... ..But if adding tones is all you care about, that's really overkill - any low-cost mobile GMRS radio lets you easily add tones in just a few button-clicks for half the price or less..

....hold my radio.. I'ma do something real quick....

More lies and misinformation Tammy! People stand up and call BS to my face every day.

Which to a normal person, using normal ears, appears to be "listening to two channels at the same time"... Next you going to explain to us how "movies don't really move"? Geezusphuckingkrist "some people" are insufferable..

IF it is not "locked", then, YES. IF it is 'locked', then, NO. So the actual answer is: It Depends TL;dr: Maybe

The point is, "some people" are out there, right now, spreading lies and misinformation on the online forums, videos, etc, claiming that the FCC will actively go after you, track your location, fine, you, or even jail you for using a radio/repeater on GMRS that is not Part 95E approved. We must stop the lies.

Yes.

Of course I am correct! How dare you have the insolence to think otherwise! .. But..Yah..

This is correct - although Retevis has had one for 3 or 4 years, but before that, there were none - Yet with thousands of non part 95 approved repeaters out there, nobody is in jail.

This is an incorrect statement and @TerriKennedy should be ashamed for saying something so ridiculous when he obviously has no idea what he is talking about: there is no such thing as a "standard Baofeng box" - i have, or have had, nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens), and they have a very wide variety of boxes. Some of them plenty large enough to fit a 15" antenna in diagonally SEVERAL of those radios (and radios from other brands) have shipped with 15" antennas and they all very easily fit inside the smaller boxes, as @WRTC928 stated.

There are a LOT of words in this thread but I would like to point out that the FCC has never..not once, not ever, gone after anyone for simply using a non Part 95 certified repeater on GMRS... Never....