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I am new to gmrs, without a lot of technical knowledge. This winter i plan to install a gmrs mobile radio on a golf cart. Since the top and sides of the golf cart are NOT metal, I am bewildered concerning a mobile mounted ghost antenna needing a ground plane surface. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated. I would be talking simplex to a base and other mobiles in a country setting. The mobiles will not connect to the nearest repeater, but the base does connect to the repeater.

The map showing the coverage area for the repeater shows the coverage area within five miles of my base radio. The base radio coverage extends way beyond the outer limits of the repeater, and does communicate with the repeater, which allows me to communicate with others over fifty miles away. Inside the repeater coverage area my mobile will connect to the repeater, and I can talk to others, just not back to the base unit via the repeater

Being new to GMRS, I am constantly finding myself confused. This time I think something is wrong, but I have no clue what it is. I have the Wouxun KG100G radio base with a Comet antenna thirty two feet into the air. In my vehicle, I am temporarily using the five watt Wouxun KG935G hooked to a ghost antenna on the roof. Both radios are correctly set with the repeater tones. Both of the radios will connect with the repeater mentioned above, and on each radio I can talk to others via the repeater. However, the mobile and the base radio will not talk to each other, even though both radios hit the repeater. As a side note, Three days ago I was in the mobile directly dead center of the repeater coverage area, I could hear the repeater and others talking, but I could not communicate with the base radio. The exact same scenario, only using a repeater that doesn't come closer in range to the base than twenty miles, I can switch both the base and the mobile to this repeater, and they will talk to each other. Since the first scenario has a repeater that ranges closer to the base, I feel that the closer repeaters abilities should allow both the base and mobile to talk to each other. I am absolutely certain that the repeater tones are set correctly. I can talk to others over both radios via the repeater, just not mobile to base in the first scenario. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so very, very much. I deeply appreciate this.

I, too, am in your same shoes. Being new to GMRS I am totally lost. I am starting to believe that purchasing the Wouxun KG1000+ over the Midland was a big mistake for my skill level. I am totally lost as to how to program in the DPL411 tone for a repeater because there is no selection for "DPL". There however is a choice of DN411.