OffRoaderX

The final days of our "Delta" repeater were pretty pathetic.. After we shut it down a couple of the jammers and troublemakers moved over to the other high-level repeaters in the area. These people are absolute losers at life. i'm not just saying that - I know who they are, and they truly are pathetic nothings.

My OTHER theory is that the corkscrew just allows you to have a shorter antenna with the same electrical length, and it has nothing to do with performance, other than having a shorter antenna that is just as performant as a longer one.

I've always assumed that the corkscrew makes the RF electricities spin-around faster and then squirt out of the antenna at a higher rate, making them go more fars.. ..i could be wrong though.

If it was ME, (i have actually had similar shituations) I would (and do) just use a good quality adaptor... "Some People" will warn you that you are going to lose all your power through an adaptor, but I am able to deal with that 0.002% amount of loss. "some people" will also tell you to just do-up the cables and connectors yourself - but, many normal people dont want to hassle it, and, are willing to cope with that 0.002% loss from using an adaptor. ..Be sure to use a good-quality adaptor, not the $2 one from Amazon.

Radios seems to attract a certain type of person, often with similar personalty defects...

Jeep: XTL5000 w/Midland MXTA26 antenna Out of the Jeep while off-roading: XTS2500 Base: XTL5000 connected to Tram1486 Office: KG1000GPlus w/MXTA26 on a cookie sheet in the window Couch: XTS5000 Repeater: Vertex 7000 w/Tram1486 and LMR400 coax. Other than the repeater all the coax is just inexpensive black-coax.

None of that sounds good, and the warranty is 1 year.. On a brighter note, the KG-1000G PLUS will make a great replacement!

Correction, THREE NotARubicon Youtube videos on it..

Because they know that for something as important as NOAA people will purchase the correct radios to receive them. And, what if they DO start transmitting on UHF? - then someone will want them to transit on HF, because their HF radio can't receive them.. Then someone will want them to transmit on commercial FM, becuase their car radio can't receive them. Then someone will want them to transmit on CB, because their CB radio cant receive them. Then someone will want them to transmit on 1.2Ghz because their cellphone cant receive them. The more i think about it, the dumber this question gets.

Probably something to do with VHF propagating better/more fars than UHF and because NOAA does not care if you bought the wrong radio. I'm sure some radio-dork will chime in with a 10-paragraph explanation saying the same thing unless i'm totally wrong, in which some radio dork will chime in with a 20-paragraph explanation saying I'm wrong.

It means you were talking to a Sad-H.A.M. doing a poor job at disguising himself as a regular GMRS user. Next time ask him to reply using simple, plain, regular english that normal people understand.

Sounds like you wont be buying a GMRS radio ever again then..

How DARE you sir! Have some respect! After all, he memorized a test, he has been a H.A.M. for OVER 30 years and a radio tech for over 15 years! By God, he is even R-56 certified!!! That is why he put all that in his forum-signature, because he DESERVES respect!

Geezus.... Thank you for proving that the people we make fun of actually do exist. But don't worry, because we are all VERY impressed with how smart you think you are!

As someone that has recommended a few radios to a few people in my day, i have, and still do recommend Midlands to "regular people" that just need simple vehicle to vehicle comms; ie; The Jeep Crowd. Radio Dorks and latent hams will require something with more bells and whistles, but MANY normal people are more than satisfied with the simplicity and performance of the Midland mobiles. Choose the radio with the features that are right for you, and ignore the online "experts" that look down on you for not being the same kind of socially reet-ard-ed know-it-alls that they are - it's difficult, becuase there are a lot of them right here in this forum.. Even in this thread..

Mine was receiving radios at 10-20 miles away.. but.. yah.. other than that, you're right.

I made a repeater using to KG-1000Gs and I never had an issue with duty cycle, even when our entire group was banging away at it for days at a time. I DID however run into the issue of desense which was limiting the range of the setup - I was getting 25+ miles, but why my geography I should have been getting a lot more fars. As Mr @WRYZ926 said, I too upgraded to a purpose-built repeater and with LESS power out, i get 2x+ more fars.

Surprisingly good!

Pro Tip: Normal people only answer questions when someone asks a question. You're welcome.

My GUESS is that you are describing an MDC, which is a digital tone that some radios output containing their radio-ID. Similar radios can decode the MDC tone and display the ID, or other person's name on the screen.

My fix would be to send it back and tell them to either send you one that works as advertised, or give back your money.. But, thats just me...

That Joshua Tree repeater has great range - i was hitting it last weekend from out around Desert Center and toward Blythe. The Palm Springs Tram repeater also has great coverage and the Mesa Crest repeater has great High-Desert and Inland Empire coverage.

There's your problem, right there.. The iCom IC2730A is not a GMRS radio.. Good luck!

Is this a trick question? 1) Go into the settings for TX DTCS tone and enter it, then go into the settings for RX DTCS and enter that 2) Virtually all GMRS radios manufactured after 2017, and a large majority of ones manufactured before 2017.. The list of radios that do not support this is very small.

I have one mounted on a cookie-sheet in the window. You only need a few inches of metal around the base, and it doesn't even need to be solid-metal, it can be strips. There is also an inexpensive ground-plane mount you can by that will do the job, but i dont think the hand-railing alone will do the job unless it's at least 6-10 inches wide. My 72G on the cookie-sheet works fine - it has an SWR below 2 and I can hit repeaters 70 miles away and talk on simplex with HT's ~20 miles away.. YMMV based on terrain.