SkylinesSuck

I have both NA-701C and the 771 on different UV-5R's and usually set them in the window facing their friend's houses. I honestly haven't really noticed a difference with the antennas, but I believe it's there. You guys have me thinking more about an antenna on the roof of the house. One thing I was thinking is I don't really want the kids hanging out inside the house chatting. I want them to go out to their treehouse. I spent some coin and a good chunk of my coronacation working on it, so they better use it! That has me focusing on them receiving the signal in the house then heading out to chat to their friends. I saw in another thread where people were using mobile antennas in the attic or roll ups hanging in a window. Thoughts? Our laundry room is built in a bump out in the garage, and there is an "attic" above the garage. The laundry room would be the ideal place for me to leave a radio on full time. They'd be able to hear it on the main floor during the day, but it wouldn't disturb anybody at night if it makes noise plus I don't mind poking a hole in that ceiling. It could give me an excuse to buy a better antenna for the treehouse and mount the J-pole up there. I also have the little tiny baby antenna that came with my MXT275 I could put throw on a cookie sheet up there and wouldn't even need to buy anything, but I'm not sure that would even be an improvement. On a side note, I discovered the KG-1000 can monitor ATC freqs which are VHF AM. This matters greatly to me because I'm a controller. My kids were loosing their minds listening to me from work. They are now asking me to send airplanes over the house lol.

Soooo.....which cable should I buy from Amazon for the 25' run I need for my kid's treehouse?

Great, thanks! I'll check out the link. I know I'd need a Duplexer as well for the extra KG-1000 idea but I thought that J-pole was pretty good? I'm not stuck on anything though. Any comments on it not working well in very close proximity the repeater? And I understand the lack of part 95 about the UV-5R's. If that's a touchy subject on this board, I'll mind my P's & Q's reference that. Thanks again for the feedback!

My kids have a 50w Wouxun KG-1000G in their treehouse with a J-pole mounted about 30' above the ground in the back yard. They talk to their school friends within a mile or so and also one that's about 6 miles away. The friends have everything from bubble pack walkies to UV-5R's. The problem is we can't hear their friends calling from our UV-5R inside our house, so they don't know they are calling or to go to the treehouse and chat. Obviously we can communicate with the treehouse just fine from inside the house as it's only about 70-80' away. So I was thinking about getting another KG-1000 and setting up a repeater up there so they can hear inside the house as well as let the friends far apart from each other talk who currently can't get each other (we are centrally located on a hill). I know the bubble packs won't work on the repeater. I worry though that we might have issues with them talking in and around the yard/woods so close to the repeater. Should this be a concern? You know kids--they will stare at each other from 20' away and talk to each other on the radios. There are repeaters in the area, but I don't think they would appreciate hearing a bunch of 8 yr old chatting about Pokemon. The other direction I'm hoping to avoid is an external antenna on the house. I don't want to run cable or drill holes in the house. Thanks in advance!