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  1. OffRoaderX
    I got my 50FT of LMR400, pre-cut with ends on it from Amazon.. Was delivered the next morning.
  2. OffRoaderX
    The GMRS rules/limitations dont allow you to do it over the air, but there is nothing saying you can't link over the internet.
  3. OffRoaderX
    most of us So.Cal natives would not call that much of an earthquake, but the local news made it sound like the end-times because of the combination of the "Hurricane and Powerful Earthquake" .
  4. OffRoaderX
    You should be able to listen to your emergency frequencies as long as they are within the freq-range that the 935 can pick up, and are analog signals.
  5. OffRoaderX
    I am dead-center in the path of the storm... Extreme rain and hazardous squalls were predicted to arrive beginning at 4am... it is now almost 1PM and we got some light drizzle that stopped a few hours ago, and I think we had a couple of wind-gusts that might have topped 3-4mph... The local news is really having a rough time finding anything to scare us with but God bless them, they're trying.
  6. OffRoaderX
    Can Clemente is pretty far south from us and right on the coast so it could still get nasty there.
  7. OffRoaderX
    Which desert? I know that Joshua Tree/29 Palms area was getting heavy rain Fri/Sat, but not directly related to Hillary... I'm in the IE and so far all the predictions of death & destruction that were supposed to have begun 6 or 7 hours ago have amounted to nothing more than a little light drizzle (which stopped 2 hours ago) with 0 wind.
  8. OffRoaderX
    I know dozens that do.
  9. OffRoaderX
    My God! The horror! Let us know if you need any help or support getting through this.. Everyone knows how hard this type of traumatic experience can be for some people..
  10. OffRoaderX
    There is no need to overcomplicate this like so many here tend to do: YES - If you hear a morse code ID on simplex, that likely means there is a repeater within range NO - this does not mean the repeater is open and this does not mean that no RX/TX tones are required to use the repeater If it is a repeater you cannot use it on simplex - you will hear it, but you cannot reach/use/transmit on it via a simplex channel
  11. OffRoaderX
    No.
  12. OffRoaderX
    If you tell someone that over the air, unless it is a business/LMR frequency that you have paid for, you deserve snark comments. Nobody can claim that you cant use a channel.. Well, they can, but you can ignore them or laugh at them when they tell you that. Then CAN claim that you cant use their repeater, and while you should honor their request, there isn't anything they can do to stop you, and the FCC wont care, just just play nice.
  13. OffRoaderX
    I dont know if they have SAR/Anyone always listening, I'll leave that up to a local to answer, but I can tell you that unless you have good line-of-sight to whoever is monitoring, or the repeater they are monitoring, it wont matter.
  14. OffRoaderX
    IMO, your best option is to not go alone and take a reliable source of communication like a Garmin InReach Sat-communicator, or a new iPhone with satellite connectivity.. Otherwise, unless you have someone waiting & listening for you, and you KNOW that your radio will reach them from wherever you may be (which is doubtful), you do not have a reliable means to call for help.. Or Pizza.. Source: I have done a bit of high-temperature, long-range hiking in the desert
  15. OffRoaderX
    Nevermind.
  16. OffRoaderX
    I have/have used both. The form factor of the 575 is much smaller than the 500 but like @marcspaz said, the programming/capabilities are the same, so no more repeater sites than the 500. If you want a small(ish) form factor with more capabilities have a look at the KG1000G which has a removable/remote-mount faceplate and mic controls or maybe the Wouxun XS-20G.
  17. OffRoaderX
    Sadly, no.. They will keep this verbalmasturbation match going on forever in their terminal attempts at proving they are the smartest one in the room.
  18. OffRoaderX
    Almost 2 weeks and we still don't know who the smartest one is.
  19. OffRoaderX
    The KG-1000G or XS-20G are both very good mobile radios. I had a KG1000G in both my Jeeps for a couple of years before replacing them with (MUCH more expensive) LMR type radios.
  20. OffRoaderX
    My GMRS repeater is at about 1,800 feet in Southern California and covers around 40-50 miles in 3 directions on about 25 watts, but only about 1 mile in one direction because of mountains. My group had another repeater at about 5,500 feet in Southern California and it covered LAX to San Diego and Scirocco Summit on 50 watts. Line of sight and antenna height are critical.
  21. OffRoaderX
    It sounds like you don't understand. When you transmit on a [GMRS] repeater you are transmitting at 5Mhz higher.. So, you are not transmitting on 462.xxx, you are transmitting on 467.xxx - and that is further away from the antenna's sweet-spot, thusly resulting in a higher SWR,
  22. OffRoaderX
    Me, and 99% of the rest of the normal people in these United States do not care. That is an FCC problem, not an us problem.
  23. OffRoaderX
    My TalkPod A36Plus also transmits on MURS, right out of the box.
  24. OffRoaderX
    The radio works on both services at the same time already.
  25. OffRoaderX
    No, but I am hoping that maybe some of the "experts" will know!
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