OffRoaderX

You forgot to mention: Also transmits on GMRS with 100+Watts, jams H.A.M.s and GMRS repeaters with music when bored and broadcasts on H.A.M.s radios frequencies with no license, just so I can feel something.
C'mon man, if you're going to be butthurt and whine like a girl, at least be complete and accurate about it.

For just making sure your radio is generally transmitting about as much power as it should be, to make sure your antenna is not shorted and the SWR is "good enough", the SW-102 is perfect. Ignore all the propeller heads trying to tell you that you need to spend hundreds or thousands of $$ because they have no idea what it means to just do a quick-check on something without the need for adhering to mission-critical IEEE standards nor can they comprehend that your self-worth is not measured by how precisely-tuned your antenna is. 
Same thing goes for the need of a dummy-load.. You can measure the power of your radio with antenna connected to get a "good enough" power reading, if you even care about that.
..."some people" could over complicate a door-knob and they love to spend other people's money.

For just making sure your radio is generally transmitting about as much power as it should be, to make sure your antenna is not shorted and the SWR is "good enough", the SW-102 is perfect. Ignore all the propeller heads trying to tell you that you need to spend hundreds or thousands of $$ because they have no idea what it means to just do a quick-check on something without the need for adhering to mission-critical IEEE standards nor can they comprehend that your self-worth is not measured by how precisely-tuned your antenna is. 
Same thing goes for the need of a dummy-load.. You can measure the power of your radio with antenna connected to get a "good enough" power reading, if you even care about that.
..."some people" could over complicate a door-knob and they love to spend other people's money.

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.

Yes - last night I was trying to look up someone's GMRS callsign that he posted on X so I could DOX him, and I was getting that same error.

Yes - last night I was trying to look up someone's GMRS callsign that he posted on X so I could DOX him, and I was getting that same error.

Yes - last night I was trying to look up someone's GMRS callsign that he posted on X so I could DOX him, and I was getting that same error.

You weren't trying to call your minions in his part of the country to coordinate their burglarizing efforts,  since his X post made him obviously not home to defend the place?

My rise to the King of all that is H.A.M.s radios is not dependent on getting permission from the government or guessing 35 questions correctly.  In the 21st Century greatness is measured by subscribers and views..

My rise to the King of all that is H.A.M.s radios is not dependent on getting permission from the government or guessing 35 questions correctly.  In the 21st Century greatness is measured by subscribers and views..

Fixed it for you Randy.

My rise to the King of all that is H.A.M.s radios is not dependent on getting permission from the government or guessing 35 questions correctly.  In the 21st Century greatness is measured by subscribers and views..

You forgot to mention: Also transmits on GMRS with 100+Watts, jams H.A.M.s and GMRS repeaters with music when bored and broadcasts on H.A.M.s radios frequencies with no license, just so I can feel something.
C'mon man, if you're going to be butthurt and whine like a girl, at least be complete and accurate about it.

You forgot to mention: Also transmits on GMRS with 100+Watts, jams H.A.M.s and GMRS repeaters with music when bored and broadcasts on H.A.M.s radios frequencies with no license, just so I can feel something.
C'mon man, if you're going to be butthurt and whine like a girl, at least be complete and accurate about it.

My rise to the King of all that is H.A.M.s radios is not dependent on getting permission from the government or guessing 35 questions correctly.  In the 21st Century greatness is measured by subscribers and views..

My rise to the King of all that is H.A.M.s radios is not dependent on getting permission from the government or guessing 35 questions correctly.  In the 21st Century greatness is measured by subscribers and views..

You forgot to mention: Also transmits on GMRS with 100+Watts, jams H.A.M.s and GMRS repeaters with music when bored and broadcasts on H.A.M.s radios frequencies with no license, just so I can feel something.
C'mon man, if you're going to be butthurt and whine like a girl, at least be complete and accurate about it.

Well, you’re wrong….again.

The cowl mount works fantastic.

Fixed them for you..
That spot is fine as long as your soft-top doesn't tear it off, but heed this warning: "Some people" are going to proclaim that ghost antennas are "no good" and "dont work", or that your location is not "perfect" enough.. These people should be ignored with extreme prejudice. 
 

Fixed them for you..
That spot is fine as long as your soft-top doesn't tear it off, but heed this warning: "Some people" are going to proclaim that ghost antennas are "no good" and "dont work", or that your location is not "perfect" enough.. These people should be ignored with extreme prejudice. 
 

By the grace of mine own self-worth and sarcasm and by the bounteous authority vested in me, THE QUEEN OF ALL THAT IS GMRS, I doth hereby decree, with much pomp and stupidity, that one @SteveShannon, a stout fellow of questionable repute but unquestionable GMRS knowledge, be forthwith and forevermore dubbed a member of the Most Esteemed Order of the HERD (which, perchance, standeth for “Higher End Radio Dork,)
Let it be known across the static-ee airwaves of the peasantry to the lofty frequencies of the saddest of H.A.M.s that Sir StevenShannon, clad in naught but his wits and an FCCs permission slip, hath stumbled bravely and fortuitously into the fray of tomfoolery and emerged victorious—or at least not entirely trampled. With this proclamation, he is granted the sacred right to put the title "HERD" after his name, to wield a UV-5R on GMRS channels, and to confuse all who inquire as to what a “HERD” truly be.
So sayeth I, THE QUEEN OF ALL THAT IS GMRS on this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord XENU two thousand and five-and-twenty. Let the roger-beeps blare, and may the Sad H.A.M.s tremble in his presence !
So it is written, so shall it be done. Arise good Sir @SteveShannon, member of the HERD!

Fixed them for you..
That spot is fine as long as your soft-top doesn't tear it off, but heed this warning: "Some people" are going to proclaim that ghost antennas are "no good" and "dont work", or that your location is not "perfect" enough.. These people should be ignored with extreme prejudice. 
 

SILENCE! You have no permission to speak!  
This prestigious award has already gone straight to your head!

My repeater has a roger-beep and I require that anyone using the repeater also has their roger-beep enabled.

I'm with you brotha!  I use it primarily for off-roading and on the trip to get TO off-roading and it busts my britches every time i hear the H.A.M.s radios wanna-be's long-talking on the repeaters.