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  1. SteveShannon
    Actually, you might even consider that the repeater may extend your range by the distance it will receive plus the distance it will transmit. Of course LeoG is right that the antenna and topology have a great effect, but I think you already considered those effects when you said “the distance the radios transmit.”
  2. SteveShannon
    Yes
  3. SteveShannon
    If it’s so you can feed the smaller cable into your vehicle, don’t put a connector part way. Take the connector at the end off and replace it with a new one with the cable only as long as necessary.
  4. SteveShannon
    The Wouxun kg-805 is a simple to use but decent quality superheterodyne GMRS radio. Randy has covered it in a couple of video articles, most recently this one:
  5. SteveShannon
    I meant electric power. I agree with Randy, don’t chase the myth of RF power instead of antenna and antenna height.
  6. SteveShannon
    Here are very few wire antennas for GMRS, in fact I don’t know of any. Typically you need 1. A repeater, 2. A duplexer, 3. A good antenna, and 4. A good source of electric power. There are lots of opinions on which is the best for each of those. I don’t have the right experience to advise you but I would recommend that you hang around for a while, look back through older posts and ask some questions before buying anything expensive
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    I don’t dare look!!!
  8. SteveShannon
    I can do better than that. For the low price of $35 you can get a real one!
  9. SteveShannon
    I’m not sure what you mean when you say HF is generally unreliable. I join a 40 meter net Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and I am always able to reach people several hundred miles from me with 100 watts. Sometimes the signal is better than other times but I’ve never been skunked.
  10. SteveShannon
    So, use the votes and pass the word so others do also.
  11. SteveShannon
    No, the question is always on top. Second, as I understand it, people ask technical questions hoping to get an accurate answer and they benefit from having the most nearly correct answer voted to the top.
  12. SteveShannon
    Thanks for the additional information. Good luck with your project. I’ll be interested in your progress.
  13. SteveShannon
    Welcome!!
  14. SteveShannon
    You should be able to delete your own posts, Marc. Look and see if it’s a choice under the ellipsis.
  15. SteveShannon
    I agree when the rules have a reason and an effect. This one doesn’t.
  16. SteveShannon
    So let me make sure I understand you. You’re in favor of sheepishly obeying a meaningless rule, that has no obvious purpose, and for which a violation is undetectable? I respect you for that but in this case I choose not to follow I’m in favor of letting the government know how stupid the rule is. Mass disobedience is one way to do that.
  17. SteveShannon
    Yes, that’s how I interpret the regulations. But in fact how would anyone know and why would they care.
  18. SteveShannon
    Exactly.
  19. SteveShannon
    This points to one real serious advantage of ham vs. GMRS: auto patch. It’s prohibited in GMRS and widely used on 2 meter repeaters.
  20. SteveShannon
    I’ve also had great experiences with the FCC Helpline, and I’m able to find my way through ULS, but it’s certainly not intuitive. I’ve also had great experiences dealing with ATF (both as a 40 year former FFL and in meetings with leaders because of rocketry), BLM, IRS, and FAA. I know it’s popular to bash government agencies, but the vast majority of employees I’ve dealt with have been extremely conscientious and sincere in wanting to help.
  21. SteveShannon
    DCS isn’t a tone; it’s a digital pattern. All the bits are inverted for the I version compared to the N (normal) version but that doesn’t necessarily mean there are twice as many patterns because a digital pattern that is inverted is equal to a normal pattern. For example if you invert the hexadecimal value for “A” it’s “5”. So why is that done? Good question.
  22. SteveShannon
    Welcome!
  23. SteveShannon
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  24. SteveShannon
    Interesting. All the ham radios I’ve seen run about the same. 14-15 amps for 50 watts and 23 amps for 100 watts. 43 amps at 13.8 volts is 593.4 watts input. At 100 watts RF output that’s 493.4 watts of heat and light that’s not going out the antenna. That’s really inefficient.
  25. SteveShannon
    So can the small group of people not simply use one of the eight existing repeaters?
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