OffRoaderX

yah, i'm outraged... because its such a major issue...

yah, i'm outraged... because its such a major issue...

yah, i'm outraged... because its such a major issue...

I stand corrected.. ONE other guy ...

I have, or have had every GMRS radio that Wouxun makes. In some cases, multiple ones, and I have never, once, seen this issue. I also have many friends, and about 200K fans, and none, never, once, have mentioned this issue.

I have, or have had every GMRS radio that Wouxun makes. In some cases, multiple ones, and I have never, once, seen this issue. I also have many friends, and about 200K fans, and none, never, once, have mentioned this issue.

I have, or have had every GMRS radio that Wouxun makes. In some cases, multiple ones, and I have never, once, seen this issue. I also have many friends, and about 200K fans, and none, never, once, have mentioned this issue.

I have, or have had every GMRS radio that Wouxun makes. In some cases, multiple ones, and I have never, once, seen this issue. I also have many friends, and about 200K fans, and none, never, once, have mentioned this issue.

I concur.. 
Putting together a repeater with two KG1000's is fun, but you will get better performance and can probably save some money with a "real" repeater.  You can find a good, used UHF repeater for a few hundred $$, and some can double as a base-station.

93 miles from Palm Springs, CA to our old "Delta" repeater, using the XTL5000 in my jeep with the Midland MXTA26 antenna mounted on the rear tail-light, where all of the "experts" still proclaim that the antenna will not work because it is below the roofline and due to the poor ground plane at that mounting location.
Initially started using the repeater with my radio transmitting at 40W, and when I switched to 110W nobody could hear any difference.
I have heard people in their mobile radios hitting that same repeater from 40 miles further away at Chiriaco Summit for a total of 133 miles, but I cant do it - probably because my antenna wont work where it's mounted.
 

93 miles from Palm Springs, CA to our old "Delta" repeater, using the XTL5000 in my jeep with the Midland MXTA26 antenna mounted on the rear tail-light, where all of the "experts" still proclaim that the antenna will not work because it is below the roofline and due to the poor ground plane at that mounting location.
Initially started using the repeater with my radio transmitting at 40W, and when I switched to 110W nobody could hear any difference.
I have heard people in their mobile radios hitting that same repeater from 40 miles further away at Chiriaco Summit for a total of 133 miles, but I cant do it - probably because my antenna wont work where it's mounted.
 

@WRXP381 is the kind of sad-H.A.M. that some Youtubers make fun of all the time. If he does not yet actually have a H.A.M. license, then he is a latent Sad H.A.M...
Hopefully you get the radio back together - keep us updated.

IF you can get the antenna off without destroying the radio, you will discover an SMA 'male' type connector.

IF you can get the antenna off without destroying the radio, you will discover an SMA 'male' type connector.

I just checked, and all of my standard SMA connecters fit perfectly into my Q10G - but when I look at the picture of your antenna, it looks like you broke your radio and the SMA connector is still attached to the antenna, leaving what is probably nothing more than a useless ragged-hole (much like my ex-wife) in the radio .
Compare the bottom of your antenna to the bottom of my antenna in my pic.

Then you probably should have said that, especially since the OP is a self-confessed n00b and prone to confuckulation and at a very impressionable stage in his radio career.

I just checked, and all of my standard SMA connecters fit perfectly into my Q10G - but when I look at the picture of your antenna, it looks like you broke your radio and the SMA connector is still attached to the antenna, leaving what is probably nothing more than a useless ragged-hole (much like my ex-wife) in the radio .
Compare the bottom of your antenna to the bottom of my antenna in my pic.

I would just like to point out that one need not be "a programmer" to setup a UV-5R radio. Investing a few minutes reading some online articles or watching Youtube videos is all you need to learn how to 'program' your radio.  You can even do it all by hand, right on the keypad, no computer necessary.
Virtually everyone here learned to do it ourselves, and we all have faith that you can too - We believe in you!

50W is good, especially when you have a long-run of that leaky coax, to get more juice squirting from the antenna.
50W is also good to step on the other guy that is irritating everyone but only has 20W.. all else being equal.

I would just like to point out that one need not be "a programmer" to setup a UV-5R radio. Investing a few minutes reading some online articles or watching Youtube videos is all you need to learn how to 'program' your radio.  You can even do it all by hand, right on the keypad, no computer necessary.
Virtually everyone here learned to do it ourselves, and we all have faith that you can too - We believe in you!

I would just like to point out that one need not be "a programmer" to setup a UV-5R radio. Investing a few minutes reading some online articles or watching Youtube videos is all you need to learn how to 'program' your radio.  You can even do it all by hand, right on the keypad, no computer necessary.
Virtually everyone here learned to do it ourselves, and we all have faith that you can too - We believe in you!

I would just like to point out that one need not be "a programmer" to setup a UV-5R radio. Investing a few minutes reading some online articles or watching Youtube videos is all you need to learn how to 'program' your radio.  You can even do it all by hand, right on the keypad, no computer necessary.
Virtually everyone here learned to do it ourselves, and we all have faith that you can too - We believe in you!

50W is good, especially when you have a long-run of that leaky coax, to get more juice squirting from the antenna.
50W is also good to step on the other guy that is irritating everyone but only has 20W.. all else being equal.

Just had someone testing my repeater with his Baofeng and stock antenna and he was hitting it from 45 miles away.  But that was with decent line of sight, your fars will vary.

Your Baofeng and the hypothetical baofeng standing next to the repeater have 6 inch antennas, low quality components, and output only a couple of watts..
The repeater has (probably) a perfectly tuned 10-foot or larger antenna, (probably) very high-end expensive and very sensitive components, and is outputting (probably) upwards of 50 watts.. So not only can the repeater hear everything much better than your $19 Baofeng, but it can squirt it's RF electricities many more fars as well.