AdmiralCochrane

I have tried it on a 2m/70cm ham radio with noticeable success. There was perceptible increase in reception and transmit with the tiger tail pointed in the direction of the other station and 180° away and null or reduction at 90°. No real noticeable improvement just letting it hang. This was with a Baofeng UV3 with a Nagoya tri band antenna and the larger battery. It didn't make the Baofeng as good as my Kenwood TH6A without

My criticism is there are similar radios with the same features that cost less.

That is about overused resources. WRTC928 spoke of an underused resource.

I grew up riding in the back of a CJ-6. It was the first vehicle my brother crashed (I beat him by a few years with a '49 Studebaker and a phone pole, he only backed the trailer hitch thru the wooden door my father was standing behind). Neither incident resulted in any damage other than our pride. My father told us the 6 was based on the same frame as the M170 ambulance.

I use Mark site read and Unread Content on a regular basis. Sometimes setting the site cookie with Mark site read doesn't seem to clear and on my next visit Unread Content some things that have not had new comments for days or weeks (sometimes months) show up as unread. As if the server only had partial access to the history when I hit Mark site read. It is obvious when I thought I hit Mark site read but didn't, and content from those days or week that I didn't read shows up again. Not a problem, but a curiosity. Maybe a limit to how big the cookie can be?

Not entirely. Politeness should prevail. If no one is using the channel, use simplex if you want. If there is other traffic, pick another. That is why there is more than one channel in the service.

Are you saying there is shooting than just putting bullets in and pulling the trigger? jk

All true in general. This original poster told us about the trees around him. For him, it is most important to get over those trees. He didn't say anything about a 200 ft tower or hilltop. For him, my original advice stands.

Which antenna is much less important that trying to get it as high as you can. A "better" antenna will not make up for being too low.

He's not connecting repeaters, he's bridging GMRS to LTE

I saw the pictures on Facebook

If you say so ...

Maybe it's a regional thing. In central MD dozens of repeaters have dozens of daily users. I am certain the NYC metro area is likewise. DC/Baltimore and NYC are certainly larger Metro Areas. As above, FM VHF and UHF are a tiny fraction of amateur radio.

Exactly what makes you think Amateur Radio Service is dying?

My home made 70/65cm Slim Jim is below 1.6 swr about half way across both bands according to my nanoNVA. I really didn't expect it to be that good across that much. I have my GMRS radio attached to it.

It is hard to find a used Yeasu radio that is functionally junk. Same for the other Japanese makers. If you only buy new, you are missing a lot of very good radios on the market.

If you don't like the copycat, then maybe the real cat is the one for you. Yeasu 8900. I have both.

The radios are usually much more equal. The differences are more often in the antennas, the antenna mounting, coax and the users themselves.

2%

He was asked multiple times what the output was on 70cm and always answered "fine" You can ask the Count on Sesame Street, he will tell you "fine" is not a number, just like twenty-something LOL It would have been a lot better if he understood that "comparison" requires comparison As we have seen here multiple times, advertised power output often varies from real world

The cell sites in the mid Atlantic area I used to service had fuel for about 26 hours of operation on their diesel backups. My coworkers kept them fueled up during snowmageddon. (I stayed home, )

I would be curious to see hard data on this, particularly 65cm vs 70cm performance.

I used to come here for information, now I come here for entertainment.

I think there are some settings you can change

I am certain it is not only not prohibited, but expressly permitted.