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I think time is catching up to me; time, newer regulations, and new terminology. When I was in radio technology between 1975 and 2001 Wideband was Wideband and Normal the +/- 5KHz. Apparently, what was Normal, is now considered Wideband, and Narrowband is really narrow, and what they use for FRS radios. Now, with the narrowband commercial repeaters, the mobile or portable should be programmed for Wideband for repeater and simplex, unless they are operated on GMRS channels 8 through 14 (the interstitial 0.5watt channels) which should then be programmed for narrowband. I'm going to assume that the majority, if not all radios, have built-in limiting for those frequencies.

If anyone is mixing terms, it's Wouxun. My question is correct as it stands.

In a related question, does anyone know whether or not the KG-1000G PLUS has the same issue? Also, the specifications in the manual for the KG-1000G says that Wideband deviation is +/- 5KHZ and Narrowband is +/- 2.5KHz. In the past commercial and amateur radio WB was always +/- 12.5 KHz and NB was +/- 5KHz. The +/- 2.5 KHz is used on the FRZ interstitial channels. Our GMRS club repeaters are commercial radios and are limited to +/- 5 KHz, which is considered NB. If a user's KG-1000 G radio is set to NB, the audio would be low on a NB repeater like ours.

Is anyone else having and issue programming the BTech GMRS Pro using the iOS app on an iPad? All software is the latest version. I can create a new group and save it with a channel but when I hit the icon to sync it to the radio the app crashes or, closes, and opens the Home Screen on the iPad. Several other features when clicked to turn on do the same thing. TYIA

Thanks but, you still need the MBA - 2 or MBA-5 to work with those mounts.

I saw that some people are 3-D printing mounts for the IC-2730A control head. Has anyone seen them for sale? Icom is out of their minds with their mounts and pricing!

If you can find an old (1970s) mobile radio telephone transceiver, they had very nice compact duplexers in them. You'd need a service monitor with spectrum analyzer or a signal generator and spectrum analyzer to tune it for you needs.

99.9% of the time, simplex will be used with carrier squelch, not tones at all.

I've experienced that with Ham repeaters running digital and programed the radio to skip the channel.

Split tones are just as described above. Unless it is DCS, which is really not a tone, it's a digital code. Those codes can run normal polarity (N) or, reverse polarity (R) on either transmit or, receive. We have a repeater in Phoenix that runs split DCS, (programing = CROSS, 071N, 225N, CROSS -> CROSS) as well as travel tone. The DCS (or DTCS as it may be referred to when programing) is used for normal everyday traffic and, as a means of keeping the repeater private for members only. The travel tone is programed into a separate channel (same repeater frequencies) in the radio and used for weekly nets, another set of tones is for tactical (emergency services), and so on. This way, members that don't want to listen to the net can stay on their "home" channel with the DCS, and not hear the net traffic. Radios that are capable of using distinct, different, DCS codes are not that easy to find. Most times you have to ask the manufacturer the specific question. That said, most commercial radios (part 90), should be able to handle it. The Baofeng UV82C is one such handheld. Hope this helps!