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I only use PL for input frequencies.......putting PL on receive limits what you can hear and is only necessary if there's more than one repeater on that channel.

incomplete sentence there? Let it go.......you can't do anything about it anyway. QSL?

On topic: You have to discover this for yourself - What I like, you may not - bell's and whistle's all seem to be the same in all of em. Off topic: Bill's Place in San Francisco has the best hamburgers I've ever had. Off the wall: What the heck does "H.A.M." stand for ???? Amateur radio ops are called "hams" (so are actors) so how about telling me what it means even if it's demeaning - 6 keystrokes for a 3 letter word? If you use the word 'sad' I will send gremlins to get ya.

The only skip I can think of is either moon bounce or multipathing

You do have the option of "roger dodger or 10-4 Eleanor"

Skip on UHF??

Awww! being sober is no fun! "but ossifer, I only had tee martoonies"

It used to be true, in amateur radio, now the rules are lax - the call sign you started out with will be the one associated with your location - then you can use it anywhere in the US or change it with a 'vanity call' like I did. I started with WB6 call in CA but here in PA I now have a K3 prefix

Gang bangers on GMRS????

Also there are some crimp pl259s if you are not handy with a soldering iron

Location may make a difference too - it could be in a bad spot - a nanoVNA will let you know the resonant frequency --- some "CCAs" (cheap chinese antennas) are nothing but dummy loads they are so far off....receiving not so critical, but transmitting into a resonant antenna is important

could you be a little more vague?

I would go anywhere else than yoooo toooobe for info or should I say misinfo There is REAL info to be found - but this is not ham radio lite although it's trying to be.

I stand corrected --I didn't consider 60 meters --- Does anyone actually use it? Whenever I listen there's no one on. Bottom line is - I love amateur radio and gmrs.........we all get to use our radios

I'm posting this because I read all the posts here...... Ham radio operators are not "freebanders" we can operate on any frequency we are licensed to use. Amateur radio ops talk about their gear, antennas, etc.....because that is what we are interested in (among other things). There is so much more to our hobby, but if you only want to believe idiot points of view - don't shovel that crap at us.......I've been licensed on amateur radio since 1967......Believe me, we DO know the rules. If morons choose to ignore the rules, it's on them - not all of us. The only test GMRS has is navigation of the FCC site. One more thing, the closest thing we have to 'channels' are repeater pairs not individual frequencies. The world is not at your fingertips on GMRS - the only thing similar is a little bitty piece of the UHF spectrum

And some people are just not happy until they are not happy

Yeah, that spool is most likely RG59 or equivalent -- I installed CATV for a while and needed to carry a spool on my truck. Most mag mount antennas have some coax already and might be enough length depending on what you want to do.

If you want to criticize amateur radio, maybe you should learn more about it before hand wachoo think diddy dum dum ditty

If only those CCRs had a way to key that flashlight for morse code - I think that would be cool

I have both the uv21 (pro v2) and gm21 - I like the feel of them - The uv21 offers 1.25 meters, something I've never had access to before. The gm21 can listen there but can't xmit. It is gmrs after all. The xmit audio is good and rcv audio is good too. No complaints so far but I really have no use for 999 memory channels.

Air band is AM because the FM capture effect will prevent a weaker signal from being heard, when using AM two signals can be heard at the same time with one causing a hetrodyne (remember all the noise on AM CB?) ATC can hear them

I've been enlightened ---- Now I can rest easy

I worked for the company that owned the ship that an episode of Colombo was going to shoot, he was in that episode. I was on board the ship in port in San Francisco

Actually there was woman using an Original Deluxe in 'headquarters' and James Coburn (Derek Flint) was using a Standard when telling where the island was -- and it was real code.

I met Robert Vaughn back in the 70's - we didn't like each other...... I was always a fan of "Derek Flint" in Our Man Flint' multi use lighter He also used a Vibroplex Original - I have one of those.