SteveShannon

Yes, the fcc license search.

I had to stop there.

For antennas the simple answer is always “Try it.” It might work.

You’re responding to a nearly 3 year old thread, but here’s another thread that might help your understanding:

I don’t have one but by far the folks who have them are very positive.

One thing about btwr, the price of M&P connectors is considerably higher than Gigaparts, but they often have them in stock when Gigaparts is out.

For that diameter I agree. If you’re willing to spend some money and go to a larger diameter, there’s also LMR600, LMR900, and LMR1200. I watched some videos on installing connectors on the larger cables the other day. The tools cost more than my radios! Of course M&P has similar diameters and performance cables.

If people don’t buy first generation there often aren’t second generations.

Hopefully that STEP button will help.

So it really changes 5 kHz on fast and 1khz on slow, right? That probably takes forever to sweep from one end to another.

5 MHz fast and 1 MHz slow? How did you get 28.300 MHz? Or did it start at 0.300 MHz?

I didn’t say that it makes no difference. As Randy said it can definitely make a difference in receiving. Also, remember that Chirp is used for many different radios used in different services and the table of data used by Chirp must have a slot for more information than just what’s needed for a GMRS radio. It really depends on the radio features and how they’re implemented. And yes, especially for amateur radios that do not have defined channels, the step size should coincide with the bandwidth of the transmission.

No, I think it’s going to be the increment of change in frequency when you are in VFO mode and go up or down in frequencies. It isn’t relevant for GMRS.

It would be ideal if Gigaparts had a 70 foot piece of M&P as Boxcar suggested You can splice them as you asked, or you could: 1. order exactly the length of 400Max you need with ends installed on it from DXEngineering or 2. order the 100 foot cable and two extra Evolution connectors (M&P makes great connectors) and cut the cable to the exact length you need plus an extra jumper. Gigaparts has the best prices on Evolution connectors and they come in packages of two. If you decide to splice two made up cables together with a barrel connector, but sure you use a good quality barrel connector. I recommend Amphenol. That will minimize any losses. As @WRXP381 mentioned you could just order bulk cable and install your own ends. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Here’s what another vendor says: Wouxun KG-1000G Plus Features 30 GMRS Channels 8 Built-In GMRS Repeater Channels 999 Custom Memory Channels 50-53.995 MHz Receive Only Frequencies (6m) 108-179.995 MHz Receive Only VHF Frequencies 320-349.995 MHz Receive Only Frequencies 400-479.995 MHz Receive Only UHF Frequencies (70cm) 700-985 MHz Receive Only Frequencies AM 108-136MHz (RX) Built-in NOAA Weather Channels https://www.buytwowayradios.com/wouxun-kg-1000g-plus.html

Before sending it back, are you trying to run from the USB charging ports? They might not be rated for enough current. Ideally you’d hook directly to the rechargeable battery.

Comet makes nice antennas. M&P cables are excellent. I haven’t tried the Airborne. It’s lighter in weight than their Ultraflex or Hyperflex because it uses copper clad aluminum as the center conductor (exactly like LMR400).

That’s at 100 meters. At 100 feet they list 2.71 dB. I’ve done that before.

Usually within 24 hours, possibly 48. But access to this site doesn’t occur immediately. That might take another week.

And when will you get one? Kidding! I look forward to seeing your video.

And the best price I find for a top quality made up cable with pl259 connectors is this M&P 50 foot cable. This is what I have: https://www.gigaparts.com/ultraflex-10-pl-259s-50-ft.html I didn’t check for ABR, but their cables are pretty good too.

I have not. Genuine LMR400 is only $1.62 per foot: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/tmv-lmr-400 400Max from DXEngineering is $1.45/ft.

Is the shield of the antenna connector connected directly to the chassis of the radio? If so, that fuse in the negative side wouldn’t see much current if the current does find another path.

Maybe they had some fuses that didn’t open reliably so they built in redundancy! I think you’re right about it being a mistake. A fuse in each leg isn’t too unusual though. My mobile Yaesu radios have that also. I don’t really know what the philosophy behind it is.

Describe them a little better please. I assume two are in series in one wire and one is in the other wire. Which wire has the two fuses in series? What are the markings on each of the fuses? I can only speculate, but I suspect the two fuses in series have different characteristics which combine to provide better protection for different circumstances. If so that’s pretty sophisticated.