PartsMan

I would bet those two, and most other new radios in your price range, have the same hardware inside. It basicly comes down to features you like. Charger type and waterproof rating for instance.

How flat is the signal of a 6db antenna? Does he need to tilt it away from his uphill target?

UPDATE- I am reliably having conversations at ten miles and have communicated at 15. (Flat northwest Oklahoma) My friend was getting the same type interference as me on his DB25 so we picked a tone to use. Now we have trouble free coms between our families. Maybe that's why some of the cheaper radios come with tones set. It covers up weak squelch systems.

I tried it in the wife's honda and still had the same noises around Enid, OK. We took it to Oklahoma City and had a little interference on the way but it worked pretty good in the city. I am thinking the squelch is just weak on a $70 radio.

OH. I am not going to "do that". I just think if some radio company did people would buy them. The bubble pack mobile. They could be included in a new off road vehicle or even rental jeeps/atvs. It wouldn't matter who ran it.

I guess I missed the hand-held part when I read it. I still say it would sell well.

Has anybody ever tried to license a FRS mobile radio? I am thinking something like a Midland MXT105 turned down to 2 watt and the antenna on a fixed cord. I think it would sell great in the Jeep community with people that don't want to license.

In the agriculture GPS world we use metal plates with 3M double sided "trim" tape to mount magnetic antennas. It is very hard to remove. I would make a ground plane plate and stick it in the middle of the roof and use a magnetic quarter wave antenna.

I was going to try it in another pickup this morning but it had a dead battery. I don't have the same problem with my GM-30 hand held and the same antenna.

Yeah technically free but hardware is limited. I can buy three GMRS mobiles and a ten year license for the price of the only MURS mobile KG-1000m.

Wow. We all know the limitations of a Chinese handi talk.

I have played with this radio for two weeks now. It works. I was able to talk to a friend 10 miles down the road with a DB-20. I can't recommend it though. I get terrible interference driving through towns. It doesn't seem to matter what frequency I monitor. Adjusting squelch doesn't help. It sounds like somebody welding in my truck.

GM-30 feels better in my hand and has USB c charging.

Another little issue was remembering to turn it on or off. My mobile is set to come on with the ignition.

I have that radio for the same reason. I kept it velcroed to my dash before I bought a mobile. It is nice to be able to leave the radio on after the truck is turned off. Battery eliminator would have to be swapped out for a battery. The only issue I had was USB C not being a solid connection. Any pull on the cable and it is out.

This sounds more like what I am experiencing. There is an area on my way to work that it is usually bad. The worst part is that this noise is louder than voice from a real transmission so I end up turning my volume down.

Yes. I did not here them on my radio scanning GMRS frequencies. I did hear them in person in the same campsite not using a call sign.

Oh I did not use the radio and don't plan to. I never heard anybody use a call sign. I was just curious if there was any way they were within the law.

I have a new Retevis RT-98, a very cheap mobile uhf radio, that will receive random "kerchunk" type noises when driving in my Nissan Frontier. It doesn't seed to matter what frequency I use and I have tried two different antennas and cables. Could it just be to cheap? Maybe a ground problem. Truck causing interference? I have it plugged into the cigarette lighter now.

So are we talking not able to receive radio near the TV antenna, fuzzy TV signal when transmitting GMRS, or frying my TV?

I always feel like I am going to push a button I don't want to.

It was just a scout gathering/campout. No radio training going on. I don't know what frequency they were on. I was scanning GMRS and never heard them.

I don't like a keypad on the mic. That's actually what made me look at it first. Preconfigured always seems to come with limitations. With this one I can program as many different versions of the same frequency as I want. For instance I tried to program some of the Midland "channels" from my GXT1000s into my GM-30 and could not. Type accepted would be great though. It can't compete with the nicer full featured radios but compare it to a MXT115 for half the money.

Will a GMRS antenna cause interference with a UHF TV antenna? If so how far apart would they need to be?

It is a shame that they don't offer this little radio for GMRS. Probably the worst Ham mobile available. SIngle band VHF or UHV must be chosen when ordering. No keypad and hard to program from the radio buttons. Very simple software if you just wanted to use a few specific frequencies though. I bet the UHF version would work great if someone were to set it up on GMRS channels. $67 plus freight from Retevis or $79 freight included from that giant website that sells everything.