wayoverthere

He may be exaggerating slightly on the price difference, but he was referring to the Midland MXR10, which lists for $459, or the Retevis RT97s which is currently on sale for $379 or RT97 which is on sale for $349, currently. All three are rated 10 watts on high, with 5 watts after the built in diplexer.

On the input tone, as @Sshannon suggested, you may try setting the speaker to "on" on the receiving radio, so you can at least hear if it's receiving the audio. From there, the other thoughts that come to mind are the connection cable between the radios, and the configuration on the radios themselves...are they set properly for their place in the setup, especially the tx radio.

I believe I saw a prime day special on the db20-g, at $87.99, if you have prime

If didn't already have both of the extra bands covered, i'd be highly tempted...BUT...i gambled on an untested VX-7R someone picked up from a SK estate, which works well, just needed a new battery, which checks off 6m (and actually has 1.25m too, at reduced power). on the 1.25m side, i went Wouxun, with the UV7D covering 1.25m and 2m (they also offer a 2m/6m version). Diamond makes a quad band mobile as well, which looks very similar to that Harvest. edit: brain fart, the diamond is 10/6/2/70cm, no 1.25m there.

Right? That would be a winner on a mag mount. Given they also do it on a pl259 to pl259 cable, I can't see why they (or anyone else) don't offer a similar setup on a mag mount. It'd be way overkill, but I imagine it's be possible to work it into one of those triple magnet mounts like this one https://alphadistributor.net/shop/ham-equipment/mobile-antenna-mounts/magnetic-mounts/triplex-5-magnet-cb-antenna-mount/

Midland sells a cable for hard mounting that has an NMO at the antenna end, and uses a smaller connector at the radio end, along with an adapter to pl259 for the radio. https://midlandusa.com/products/micromobile-mxta24-low-profile-antenna-cable Free is a good price for a phantom antenna. I've done a little testing with a laird phantom in the middle of my truck roof on a mag mount, results werent super, it was having trouble getting readable audio into a local repeater with 10 watts that I can generally use on a handheld and rubber duck.

In my case it wasn't so much a lot of redundancy as upgrading equipment (baofeng to ft4x to ft5d), and chasing bands and modes, and some of it that single band LMR gear...DMR/MotoTrbo and P25 in both VHF and UHF, C4FM, wanting in-built APRS, plus 1.25, 6m, and 33cm. With antennas, it's been more chasing functionality, or adapting to limitations. i am finding myself wanting to pare down a little, though...start shifting some of the stuff for projects that never got off the ground. when i really dove into the hobby, everything was shut down, so antenna heights weren't an issue, as office days started up again, i had to either get used to folding the antenna every time, or swapping out (and finding one short enough to work), and later relocating with new limitations. It has kind of come in handy as i shuffle equipment between vehicles, though....the antenna that was slightly too long on the truck will be a good fit on the better half's car, and can be joined by the compact radio that was in the now-departed beater, without needing to purchase new gear.

I plead the 5th on that answer

Is it just the banner at the top with the notice? Or clicking the link for ULS goes back to the 'down for maintenance' screen?

ULS appears to be back up and running (6/20/23, 10:27pm PDT) https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp edit: slow response times, some timeouts, some error messages. did a little searching for some of the posters above, but no more joy to report.

Did some poking around the android version (pixel 7 pro), and everything seems to be working great. The only minor nit i saw to pick is on the "About" page, it still shows the fee at $70.

I would look to wouxun. Maybe users with the 905, 935, and kg1000g can chime in, but I know my 805g will let me use all 128 memory slots as I please within bounds for gmrs, or receive only outside that (I want to say it's 400-470mhz) on uhf.

Thanks And I plan to try again didn't do too badly considering I hadnt studied for extra. I needed 37 to pass, I got 26.

Newington CT June 14, 2023 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB010 ARLB010 FCC Universal Licensing System Applications Are Unavailable It went down for "scheduled maintenance" on the 9th, was supposed to be back up on Monday the12th, but never came back. I'd been watching closely for my own upgrade to show up (passed for general on the 3rd, tried extra on a whim, but came up short). Some of the batch processing feeds made it out because it wasnt showing on the 8th (Thursday) and I missed checking on the 9th before it went down, but the update has hit QRZ.

If you bought it through the mygmrs shop, here is the page with contact info: https://shop.mygmrs.com/pages/contact-us The other vendor that sells the kg100g is buytwowayradios, and here is their contact page: https://www.buytwowayradios.com/contact-us

I'll try to look for it later on am actual computer, but I thought I saw something in r/gmrs not too long after the gmrspro came out that someone was successfully decoding the position reporting with a yaesu radio (ftm400, iirc). edit: here's the search link that got a few hits near the top.

From what I see active on the map, Verdugo looks like the most likely suspect; it's a bit of a reach to ventura, but the description does indicate it being linked. The out of state activity coming via Zello is a definite possibility; I've dropped into a couple out of state repeaters that way before (when I still had access).

As @WRXE944 mentioned, color codes are a DMR thing, and not applicable to gmrs (currently, anyway, who knows for the future). On the second item, it CAN be done to have a repeater accept more than one tone, it can be assigned to different users, or configured for local repeat vs also passing audio to linked repeaters. However, unlike DMR (and the time slots), it doesnt allow more than one user to use the repeater at the same time.

That one works ?

They're not working for me either ?

Little more testing today...tested swr on the truck, both with the mag mount centered and with it moved to the back edge of the roof to approximate the 3rd brake light mount. Under 1.1:1 across the same places I tested previously, and no problem opening a couple uhf repeaters 30ish miles out (in the foothills) from my driveway. Going to leave it on and hope to get some real world testing in this coming week. With the link from the local repeaters to the rest of the system down, things have been pretty quiet.

I can't make any promises on function (as I haven't gotten a chance to test it on the truck yet), but this one is rated wideband enough for 70cm and gmrs (430-490). I did get a chance to do some limited swr testing with a handheld and a mag mount on a chest freezer, and the swr was good, about 1.2 or less everywhere I tested....a couple gmrs simplex and repeater inputs, 446.000, and a couple other 70cm simplex frequencies. As 4wd fullsize is the plan down the road, I grabbed the phantom as a limited clearance option (assuming it works adequately in practice). Vhf...remains to be seen, Maybe a 2nd phantom depending how this does. Laird does have a couple vhf options, and I already have a diplexer.

I was thinking along the same lines. Even at or just a ove the same price point of the id52, a new d75 would almost be a no brainer vs a used d74

Count me in the same boat....so much cool stuff that was discontinued by the time I got my ticket, so my interest is piqued. I'm always tempted to try something new, and the icom id52 had me curious, but this has some positives over the icom, even if it rings in at around the same price. Wanting actual APRS was pushing me to yaesu, though interface wise I prefer my icom, and have still been tempted to jump to the id5100. (Sorry, rambling)

For ublock, yeah. I could see some other types of blocking being less forgiving of the redirects though, especially in ostensibly more secure environments.