OffRoaderX

More lies perpetrated by the Sad-H.A.M. cartels.

Yes. Make sure it has good airflow.

Warning: Do NOT listen to the "experts" that love to spend your money - for occasional tuning/testing of your antenna you do NOT NEED a $500+ SWR meter. Normal people use inexpensive meters like the Surecom SW-33 or SW-102, and they work just fine. If you plan on testing/tuning antennas professionally or as some kind of a hobby, then by all means get one that costs much more and is *slightly* more accurate.

Midland MXTA26

Unless you are trying to bounce your signal off the moon, just mount your antenna in the best spot you can, as high as you can get it, and it will work fine for for highway/trail comms. My antenna is mounted above the rear tail-light/rear fender of my jeep, below the roofline, where many "experts" warned me it "will not work". and while it certainly does not work as well as it could, it works just fine. I can hit a repeater with it at 92 miles and regularly get 20+ miles on simplex and have never had issues on the trail where i could not hear someone that others could, or they could not hear me. My two words of advice are: 1) ignore the 'experts' B ) - dont over-think it.

I'm not sure why, but, I think I like this guy.

I guess i'm going to jail.. along with the thousands of other business/LMR users in my area. But @Radioguy7268 is correct -there is a rule and I stood corrected.

"Skip" means that if you enabled scanning on your radio those channels will be "skipped" during the scan. As to why it's there or who put it there: Nobody can answer that, and it does not matter

I was also going to suggest a Business (LMR) license - If you pay a service to do the application for you it is actually a very simple process and most only charge a couple hundred $$ - I just go my own LMR/Business license and 5 authorized frequencies from a place called Kemp Wireless in Oregon (yes, I paid full price) - I all needed was a credit card, 15-minutes on the phone with them, and I had to sign one form. But many radio-resellers can do it for you. With the Business/LMR license, you just use the radios on your assigned frequency(s) - no need for callsigns or anything.

Speak for yourself.

Fixed that for you.

As Mr. @Sshannon already said, NO .

Yah, that's the problem.. Right there...

I've been declared a shill and I dont even say that!

Are you sure it is channels 1-7 not working? By design and per FCCs rules, the KG-1000G will not transmit on channels 8-14. Does yours transmit on 8-14? Does it transmit on channels 15-22?

How many different times are you going to ask this same question?

Yes, i have ideas all the time.

Indeed it is - i have burned out a couple of them even though i was transmitting well below the rated wattage.

1) your actual power output depends on what frequency you transmit on, and the luck of the draw - but no, there is no way to fix/change anything to get more out of it. 2) "Best in class" depends on what is important to you and how you define "best" - but generally speaking Baofeng radios are not on that list Dont make the mistake of getting overly hung-up on whether or not a radio is transmitting 5W or 3W - In most cases, usually, most of the time, on average, you will not notice any difference in FARS when comparing 5W to 3W - what you will notice however is that 5W will suck down your battery much faster.

So do I .

These are vestigial settings left-over from being a ham radio. Most GMRS radios are not designed as GMRS radios from the ground-up. Instead, they are repurposed ham-radios, and usually a lot gets lost (or remains) in the translation. Look through the menus of most of these radios and you will find options that make no sense on a GMRS radio, they do nothing, or, both.

i have more experience and none of that makes any sense.

I've tried it both ways.. i cant do it.

What kind of trouble? Have you tried these (see pikture)?

I think we've all learned a very valuable lesson here today.