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I have 3 of the Larsen NMO mounts in my roof. 1 of these with the rg58au and 2 with lmr200. They are great mounts and will recommend them over others. There's a little cap on the bottom that covers the center lead solder point. You can put a dab a silicone on that but I don't think it's needed.

Just checking, gotta get all the details when trying to help. It's amazing what a small issue will cause. Do you have anyone close with a radio you can throw the antenna on or use their antenna?

The KG-UV980P is the same body and software as the KG-1000g just different tx frequencies. You can expand the frequency with software and it's cheaper than the 1000G. This alone makes it a better choice. I can talk cb fm but listen am/fm, ham, and gmrs. I have 3 different antennas going to a triplexer. You can also check out the TYT TH-9800.

You can get a lip mount bracket. https://www.gigaparts.com/comet-antennas-cp-5nmo.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhLKUBhDiARIsAMaTLnFa2MEtKn8ZJRyzQ4kFmxS9g2ZVbq_AAkprgK2ggo_uL0Czawd_tw8aAlu-EALw_wcB or https://www.amazon.com/Midland-MXTA27-Universal-Connector-MicroMobile/dp/B0842BB2R9/ref=asc_df_B0842BB2R9/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=416780426358&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12158357770759555836&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007206&hvtargid=pla-899516697755&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=90730211461&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=416780426358&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12158357770759555836&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007206&hvtargid=pla-899516697755 You also gotta plan on not being able to use a vehicle depending what happens when needing to bug out. Grab a slim jim and throw that in the bag too. https://n9taxlabs.com/shop I have the dual band ham and gmrs/murs. Added some paracord small arborist throw weight and a sma to sma extender cable to throw it over a branch and pull it up a tree for height.

Is your feed line pinched through a door? Do you have the radio pos and neg hooked up to battery? Are you testing with doors open or closed? Engine running or off?

Where is the antenna mounted? Are you cutting the bottom section or the top section? What frequency are you trying to tune for? Are you in a vehicle or on a power supply?

I had the Wouxun KG-XS20G, It's a 20w GMRS radio that also receives dual band frequencies so you can monitor other local channels. It's essentially their KG-935G in mobile form with 20w. Great little radio for the vehicle, I just wanted something more. I ended up upgrading to a Wouxun KG-UV980p with expanded frequencies.

Are you trying to hook up a simplex radio or are you trying to hook up a repeater? Either way your gonna need a raspberry pi and the sd card with image. Feel free to send me a direct message on here or email me. WROE856@gmail.com

I'm running the current version of hamvoip on my node at the moment. I posted a small write up about how to do it. How do you like the hp thin client? Are you running linux on it? I'm getting tired of the issues with the raspberry pi and looking to switch to something better. I was gonna try the Rock Pi when it came out to see how that is.

Auto am is only on certain frequencies. When you go to a channel and put am sw on it will receive am till you change the channel unless you set it in the programming software.

Don't know how or why but today it's working perfectly fine. Playing every 2 hours like I wanted. Thanks for the help!

What does the mount look like your making? Are you looking for something like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/253851191800?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1aPJJb2zVTXmLnlD2Vpc11Q47&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=253851191800&targetid=1599090334937&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9007206&poi=&campaignid=15275224983&mkgroupid=131097072938&rlsatarget=pla-1599090334937&abcId=9300697&merchantid=113608200&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-JyUBhCuARIsANUqQ_L2GbcOhBE3NmXNWd-iwtt_CB_SWJBMqBV6QM73HB4eeH_Xrs4dBogaAsvTEALw_wcB or like this https://www.arcantenna.com/products/icefin-gp-ground-plane-for-icefin-antennas?currency=USD&variant=32297701605507&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-JyUBhCuARIsANUqQ_I-oVBGwHqGmDeusif5qaPl0mnF9iLUG5ns0VWaiGS76KaRiDwdQsQaAoC1EALw_wcB

There was no time/weather. I have another set up to run rc.updatenodelist as */5 * * * * and that runs every 5 mins. I guess I could just add an entry for every time I want it to play.

I have a new scheduling issue. With the new hamvoip image, it come with *81 to give time and weather. I'd like it to run at 15 past the hour every 2 hours. From what I see online I have it set correctly but it still runs every hour. Is there a different way to do it? 15 */2 * * * I even tried 15 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20 * * * That didn't work at all. I tried it under scheduler in rpt.conf and crontrab -e with the same issues. Sorry for being annoying

I noticed when people were transmitting I would lose part of the transmission every few seconds, sometimes the whole transmission then I would hear my courtesy tone. I noticed this when I had my phone linked in with DVSwitch while monitoring my radio. I did some playing around in the simpleusb.conf setting and found that if I changed it from log to linear my audio would be fine without issues. To change the settings log in with putty, on the main menu hit 12 for simpleusb tune menu After your in the simpleusb menu hit 5 then number 2 When your done making changes hit W then 0. Make sure to restart asterisk when done making changes by selecting option 13 from main menu.

The kg-935 is one of my favorites. It sounds better than my wouxun kg-uv9g. I put a stubby antenna on it and use it around the house all day without issues. Great little radio.

Can you copy/paste between the different radio programming software? Or can you just copy/paste in the one file? I have a few wouxuns and having to retype everything for every radio gets old fast.

It's stock for the radio. I didn't install it. I don't even use it. The newer rams they moved it to center the 3rd brake light.

I just posted a whole write up about modifying the hamvoip image to run on the mygmrs network. Check out If your not gonna install to raspberry pi 4 just skip the pi4 download

If your willing to modify software you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 to work. I just put up a walk through on how to do it. Not sure if it'll work with the sock image though.

I ended up redoing my node with a hamvoip image that I figured out how to modify. It now works without issue. For some reason it didn't work with the stock image from the myGMRS store.

Setting up Supermon Log into your node with putty and change directory. cd /var/www/html/supermon Once your in that directory your gonna wanna change the admin password htpasswd -cB .htpasswd admin Now go to Supermon on your ip address yournodeip/supermon Click login on the left and login with admin and your password. Next we're gonna wanna change some settings. Click Configuration Editor Go to allmon.ini and hit edit file. Change it to the following info with your node# to your node, set passwd= as your password you just set up. [node#] host=127.0.0.1:5038 user=admin passwd=secret menu=yes hideNodeURL=no [All Nodes] nodes=node# menu=yes [lsNodes] url="/cgi-bin/lsnodes_web?node=node#" menu=yes [myGMRS.com] url="http://network.mygmrs.com" menu=yes Don't forget to hit WRITE edits at the bottom when done. Next go to global.inc and change all the info to your info. Callsign, Name, Location, Zip Now go into common.inc and find the section about Allstar Allmon Database, change to the following info // AllStar allmon database //$ASTDB_TXT = "/var/log/asterisk/astdb.txt"; $ASTDB_TXT = "/var/lib/asterisk/rpt_extnodes_gmrs"; // // AllStar rpt_extnodes file --- not present in DNS mode. $EXTNODES = "/var/lib/asterisk/rpt_extnodes_gmrs"; // // AllStar Echolink database dump $ECHO_DB = "/tmp/echolink.db.gz"; // // Private AllStar nodelist $PRIVATENODES = "/var/lib/asterisk/rpt_extnodes_gmrs"; WRITE edits when done. You should now see your node and all your stats. If you wanna control your node from an external ip address make sure you port forward port 80 to your node's internal ip. Make sure you keep up with your public ip address if you don't have a static ip. Otherwise you won't be able to connect.

How to install AutoSky Weather Warning https://hamvoip.org/howto/AutoSky_howto.pdf

Before doing anything. DO NOT USE the sd card your node is currently running on. Get yourself a blank sd card incase there's any issues, you can just pop your original sd card back in. Files to download: pi4.zip nodeupdate.zip template.zip DON'T FORGET TO PORT FORWARD to the local ip address and port number used. First use winSCP to log into your current node that's running. Open up iax.conf to get your node password. /etc/asterisk/iax.conf Head over to hamvoip.org to download the newest image file. Make sure you have Win32 Disk Imager installed. Use it to install the new image to the blank sd card. After it's done installing don't remove the sd card yet. Open it up in file explorer and add the 2 files in pi4.zip to it. You can now safely remove sd card and add to your Raspberry Pi 4. Let it boot up with ethernet cable installed for a few mins. Log into your router and look for the newest ip address/name. Mine was labeled as alarmpi 192.168.1.192. Use the ip address and SSH into it with winSCP using the default credentials. There's a few things your gonna wanna change. Download nodeupdate.zip and copy/paste the files to the correct folders. /usr/local/etc/rc.updatenodelist /var/lib/asterisk/rpt_extnodes_gmrs Next download template.zip and install those files in the correct folder. /usr/local/etc/asterisk_tpl/ You can now log in with putty and go through the node set up process. Change your hostname to node-XXXXX or whatever you'd like. Add your node number and password when prompted. After your done with the node setup you can use the menu to change your wifi. Let your node reboot. Use winSCP to log back into your node and navigate to extensions.conf to add your node number where it says NODE = ${NODE}. It doesn't change during the setup process. /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf Go into rpt.conf and look for extnodefile and change it to the following if it isn't already set. While in winSCP hit the putty icon When the menu pops up hit 9 to enter command line. Change your crontab -e to run rc.updatenodelist You should be able to connect to other nodes at this point. Don't forget to check out the updated tone list I added in rpt.conf

It's a ulaw. I'll try converting it to gsm to see if that works.