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Not ideal time but thats why many tower owners ask for insurance. It protects them and you in all reality. Glad no one was hurt.

Jeeps are not friendly when installing antenna's but my JK ran UHF "phantom" style antenna under the hard top for years. On my JT I used the A Pillar light mount from Mopar and stuck a 1/4 wave there. On the JK we have a hard top all winter. IT still works for what I need.

If your logged in its the last heading in the GMRS section on the forums. Private Discussion

As Steve stated all the repeaters listed are volunteer submissions. Some are actually good reliable repeaters and some are not so much. Also many folks may have more than one repeater but only list 1 or 2 as they utilize them for a specific purpose and dont share them. I have multiple that are not listed.

Depending on where you are iin VB there was one in Chesapeake. I didn't make it down with the MH last year but when Im at Holiday Travel part my repeater is on. As was stated if you got into GMRS to talk to people youd be better off with your ham ticket. GMRS isn't like CB or HAM radio. There are some folks who chat but mostly people use the service for its purpose. I know for the years Ive been down in VB the only chatter I normally hear is around the beach and up by the state park on FRS channels.

IF you have a digital volt meter test your power while you key up the radio and make sure your not overloading the power supply. You may not have enough power with the power supply. Also a true watt meter test would help.

Nope. Mine is in scan any time im in the jeep

If your really talking 200' you want hardline. I would use 7/8" LDF for that distance if you want any favorable results. You may be much better putting an antenna on the house and shorten less than 50' then use LMR400.

As said Id sweep both antenna's for return loss on the frequency you plan to use. Id use the best of the 2. They are both solid performers. The only issue with more gain is if its really higher than surrounding area. I have 1 at 2500' and have some dead spots heading down the mountain until I get 5 miles away.

You had a 6db antenna with 16' of cable then went to a 40' of LMR400. You will have loss in the cable. Granted wont be a ton but will be different than 16' of cable. As reference I run the Laird antenna on my Motorhome for my repeater and have used it alot. Its a solid antenna. Get it in the air and it will do fine.

What are you using as a Power Supply on the mobile radio ?

You can wait but you'll also be paying $35 when you renew your Ham License when its all done....

GMRS does not allow digital.

Yes, in October. My phone doesn't like to spell early am...

Jeep Jamboree played with GMRS last year. On the JJUWarie event hardly any of the guide had GMRS. Its was still mostly CB. Supposedly this year its all GMRS. I think it will depend on location still

If antenna is grounded radio would turn on but not tx well if at all.... how i radio mounted ?

Most of the amateur's bridge devises need to talk thru a server on the ham network. these can't be used on GMRS. If your interested in linking jsut go t othe site and order the box. Its mostly plug and play and does what youd want.

Im sure there are various radios but you will see a ton of ICOM LMR radios in Canada. When I did LMR work for a shop in NY we got asked to help ICOM program a ton of radios that were going North of the boarder. They sent us a codeplug and just told us to program and box. I think most were going to a logging company. I wish I had saved the code plug.

Check gorund wire

OK. Is there a repeater in range of that channel ? Your listing 2 sets of repeater frequencies. Unless there is an open repeater in your area they will never talk to each other on those channels.

Rich sells a kit to hook to a repeater. Do a search on here. https://shop.mygmrs.com/collections/repeaters-and-accessories/products/repeater-linking-bundle

As others said the radio doesn't work well with split tones. I still have them in both my jeeps. There are many repeaters that do not use split toners and other than one location I have not had an issue.

Licenses are based on TX Frequency mostly. If you have a repeater on 462.700 that's what you would search on. Sometimes location may be Nationwide if its licensed by a big box store.

Before we completely train wreck this thread maybe start one in technical and we can share some more.

If your going to use the crank up antenna I used the laird as I do now on my 5th wheel. I mounted it with the brackets that come in the kit but had to add an extension to get around the AM/FM antenna. I followed the same "entry" as the TV antenna but spent way too much time trying to fish it down the wall. In the end it looked nice, let me crank up antenna and was on air, but had to use RG58 and had about 30'. It also knocked out the TV apparently only when the wife was watching . I had it on the repeater first then ended up moving it to my midland radio as a "base" in the unit. When we got the MH I didn't want to deal with all of the wire stuff which is why i got the FG4500. Mounted on the motorhome with the cable run down the ladder along frame rail to the compartment made it simple and effective. Its about an 1" taller than my vent covers and most of the time have left it in place even while traveling. I did remove it originally thinking it would get hit but so far its been fine. In reality if it gets hit I already hit my vents and other stuff on the roof. But again its a 2 minute job to remove it. Inside the MH I have the Midland 275 on the dash hooked to a NMO mount in the center of the MH. I removed the factory AM/FM antenna and put a thick mount NMO with a 12" stainless disk under it. It works perfect. 99% of the time its just talking to the repeater anyway but when I'm traveling down the highway its nice. Depending on your camper your roof will be rubber coated or fiberglass. Neither will give you any ground plane so you will need to add it. Also its a sandwiched roof inside layer, foam, outside so trying to mount an antenna on it is challenging. You could just screw a piece of steel on over the rubber and use a mag mount but that leads to other issues. Getting a cheap base antenna is probably the best bet without alot of work. IF you have solar the other option may be to use a L style mount on the Solar mounts. I did this on my fathers MH but he only uses it to talk to me when we are traveling.