Bogieboy01

If you get a mag mount on the roof it would likely perform even better.... i run one of the chinese copies of the midland on my car, and can get 20+ miles to the local repeater with no issues with my 778uvII

Hmmm... never heard of OSO....

Potentially, i am working on getting a ham license, and may look into it... last i saw the callsign was still listed as active though, and was renewed in '23, not sure if that will stay active for the 10 yr span or not?

Maybe i am a wierdo... but i purchased a used anytone off ebay a few months back, and it had a calk sign programmed into it for the boot screen, i looked it up and the gentleman had passed away early this year, and he had a lot of similarities in life to myself and my wife..... i kept that call sign programmed in, in memorium of him. I never met the guy but i can tell you if i id did, we would likely have been great friends... i like to think he might be watching over me as sort of a "silent Elmer"... Like i said.... maybe i am a wierdo....

Thanks for the info, i am getting close to being confident in passing the technician license, so thats one step closer, but my wife isnt too excited about being a "radio dork"....LOL i would likely have better luck trying to skip 11m to her truck cb than getting her to get any sort of ham ticket...

Yeah, thats the sort of thing that actually got me looking into radios, was the rapid radios ads on my local talk radio, thinking hmmm... that could come in very handy having long range comms for an emergency....but then find out that they all use LTE, so its kinda pointless in a situation where a cell phone wouldnt work.... for context on this, my wife is an over the road trucker, so having long distance comms for us is vital.... especially considering that any given truck load that she hauls "could" put her right in the path of a blizzard, hurricane or tornado... Still havent found a viable/reliable setup past cell phones for these types of situations unfortunately...

Guess we gotta up our game on our boofwang handhelds.....just saw this on facebook today....

Put that baby on a mag mount and fire away on the roof top.... have mag mounts eith the knock off cheapo ghosts on both my vehicles, work absolutely great, my daily has the anytone 778uvII, and the fun truck has just a boofwang ar-5rm with a speaker mic and the mag mount antenna.... both get the job done good enough for me, granted the 25w 778uv does get out better thru the foliage this time of year than the fun truck....

I am going to second the 778uv... got one to use as a mobile rig, and a week later grabbed a second for the base rig as well.... absolutely great radio for the money for sure....

Not knowing what your locale presents for terrain, i live in the fingerlakes region of NY, and have a mix of plains like and some more hilly terrain, but my mobile setup is an anytone 778uv, with a cheap ghost antenna (stubby) on a mag mount on the back end of my subaru forester next t the stock fm radio antenna, and i can hit the local repeater 30 miles away with no issues. My "base" unit is also an anytone 778 uv, with a cheap amazon "6 db" pl239 mount antenna mounted on a ground plane on the end of a 10ft piece of conduit screwed to the side of my apartment building LOL and that can reliably hit the local repeaters from 25 mi away as well... the mag mounts do make things significantly easier on the cars, aside from what car washes you can use...LOL

Lets see how deep you go in the batman fandom....maybe more like Red Hood? Lawless bloodshedding vigilante?

Is the original post coming thru or is it one that someone else quoted?

Crazy fan fiction theory.....Socal is an evil alternate acount of notarubicon....dr jekkyl/mr hyde kind of stuff..... only joking, as i know "i" and Randy's "best fan"....he told me so in a video.....

You mean "radio dorks in thier underwear in thier parents basement"

Dang.... that woulda been soooooo much better than mine....LOL WSHS666 Here...

Ameteur bands typically, due to the ionosphere being able to propogate the longer wavelength bands better than the UHF frequencies....with the right antennas and equipment you can communicate around the world on 5w with the 11m band.... *edit* can you tell i am studying to get a ham license?

I dont recall anyone talking about giving a false address? Dont exactly feel like reading back thru the entire thread to look either.... are you referring to those of us who choose to use (or are forced to use by landlords like myself, whose landlord refused to allow mail delivery to my apartment complex, because the local post office will "give you a free box") My legal mailing address is my po box, and it wouldnt matter what address is listed for my "station" since 99.9% of the time i am transmitting either mobile from my vehicle, or at work on a handheld, as i live right on the edge of the reach for the local repeater....

Did you have either an antenna or dummy load on the power meter? If not, that could "in theory" fry them...."some people" say it will, and some say it wont....

If i had to guess if you ordered that radio, it would show up as a uv or ar 5rm.... if it says anything for 70cm, 1.25m etc, i would put money on it being the rm, not the 5g+, further more under the item spec i would dare say it very plainly lays out the rx and tx frequencies... just because it says gmrs in the title is not "false advertising".... a 5rm radio is capable of transmitting on gmrs... it may not be type approved, and it may not have a legit fcc part whatever cert.... but it will do it... LOL

"Some people" seem to read between the lines too much, and miss the bigger picture....

Not familiar with that particular radio, but have you looked for an option in the menu labeled TXP? On my ar5rm its option 02 on the menu.

so now i am curious.... what exactly did yo....er....your friend get assigned as a callsign? better or worse than mine at WSHS666 which was assigned march 29th of this year....LOL half the guys on the local repeater call me triple inverted nine because they are too superstitious to call out 666...

i probably would have been the joker posting this.... https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ctcss+code+to+code+number+chart&l=1

not prohibited at all....they ask for a mailing address, not physical address when you apply for a GMRS license... try checking my callsign, WSHS666 (gotta love that callsign, half the guys on the local repeater call me triple inverted nine instead of 666 or triple 6)

i agree with the others, 15+ for any period of time is too high, and indicates an issue with either your battery or charging system. ( i am a small engine mechanic by trade, but car charging systems are not that terribly different than lawn mower/compact utility tractor charging systems, all are 12v based, and anytime anything over 14.6-14/8 occurs, it may indicate an issue somewhere in the charging system ) probably gonna want to sort that out before installing the new radio.