WRQC527

I seriously doubt it. It's written by a ham. Hams are notorious for having zero sense of humor. In fact, "Hams have a sense of humor" is one of the true or false questions I answered on my Technician exam.

I can honestly say that as a GMRS and ham radio license holder, I want exactly no part of this proposal to ever see the light of day. The FCC has already made a mess of the FRS/GMRS portion of the UHF band, and is contemplating even more mayhem with Midland's digital nonsense. Also, us hams have enough work to do already, what with posting reams of FCC regulations, technical service bulletins and doctoral dissertations for simple questions like "How do I ID" on MyGMRS. We can't be expected to police GMRS+ too.

As soon as I say no, someone here will spend the rest of the week trying to prove me wrong, so I'll say most likely no, even though there is no mobile GMRS transceiver that I've ever heard of that receives CB. Also, since there's no special regulations in Canada for CB use, you might have better luck with CB. Truckers tend to communicate road conditions with each other via CB, at least in my experience. Especially when the weather turns nasty.

Commenting about this on MyGMRS is meaningless. Commenting to the FCC during the FCC's 30-day window inviting public comment is probably the better use of time.

The only reviews I read anywhere are the bad reviews. The good reviews are too often either paid for or written by folks praising the product after owning it for an hour for doing what it's supposed to do. The bad reviews are honest.

Give your call sign, your name, and your location. If you're mobile at the time, say that too. If it were me, I would say "WRQC527 Steve in Fullerton California". Or "mobile in Fullerton California" if that were the case. But if I'm not at home in Fullerton, I would say where I currently am.

If you're getting a squelch tail and a courtesy tone then yes you have it set right. Say your call sign and that you're listening, and perhaps ask for a signal report. Perhaps someone is monitoring and will give you a response.

Indeed you have. Welcome, merry Christmas, happy new year!

Please elaborate, and also include technical service bulletins, anecdotal historical documents, and any FCC regulations you think might be of use.

You're overthinking it. No one is going to think you're calling for help if you say 9-1-1. Also, overthinking things is a way of life here at mygmrs, so don't think you're alone.

Yagis are directional, but they don't completely reject signals from the sides or back. Many times I've heard HF radio operators talking to people hundreds of miles away off the sides or back of their Yagi antennas. Using my 3-element handheld VHF Yagi, I can often hear the repeater I'm using even off the side or rear of the Yagi, just not as well as when I'm pointed at it. There's not much to go wrong with a Yagi, so I wouldn't think it's defective. In fact, the idea that it's actually receiving less off the sides makes me think it's working just fine.

If the S really does HTF, I'll be using my repeater to transmit AC/DC Highway To Hell on an endless loop. Like the guys on Titanic who played while the ship sank. Only edgier.

In this screen grab, we can see the end of an FCC-initiated high-speed pursuit that was the result of a perpetrator transmitting on a Wouxun KG-XS20G on channel 8. The FCC handed the chase over to the highway patrol when they realized they had no vehicles with which to chase anyone.

What make and model is your HT?

I'll preface this by saying I'm no expert. But I have dealt with alternator whine on my radios. The approach that fixed it for me is a homebrew inline filter between the battery and the radio. Here's the link to the filter I built. It looks very similar to the IBNF30 you bought. https://www.sanantoniohams.org/Tips/whine.htm But, since you say you tried the filter and it didn't work, I would suspect a ground loop. This can happen when two devices are grounded to different places of the vehicle. And in your case, connecting the Midland to the car stereo with a cable introduces yet another ground path. Without knowing what your wiring setup is, I'm guessing. Perhaps you could try to run the Midland off a battery that is completely isolated from the car's electrical system and see if that has an effect. If so, grounding the Midland to the same place the car radio is grounded to might help. Additionally, because the cable connecting the Midland to the car radio introduces a direct ground connection between them, an audio isolation transformer might help. Something like this. It completely breaks the electrical connection but it passes audio. https://www.connection.com/product/c2g-stereo-audio-isolation-transformer-3.5mm-m-f-black-4in/40000/13364621 Bottom line, do some research on ground loops in car audio systems. If I were a betting man I would bet this is the issue.

I have found that my Jetstream JTM3B does pretty well on GMRS. I normally just use it for amateur 2 meters and 440, but I was surprised to find that it has a decent match on GMRS also. I set it up on a 20 foot window washing extension pole. I can't leave it up all the time since I live in a condo with an ASSociation.

Battle-tested. Can't say that about my collection of Yaesus. The first video I saw with one was of a Ukrainian soldier discussing how they took out the Moskva.

I pulled this out of an article I read today about a Russian soldier captured this week by Ukraine. "The captured soldier revealed that the personnel on duty at the positions were armed only with rifles and hand grenades, with a cheap radio station of Chinese manufacture for communications."

I tell my wife all the time "I've only been wrong once in my life. It's when I thought I was wrong but I wasn't." She sees right through that lie.

I always count it a success when I can talk to my wife on a handheld from 10,000 foot Mt. Baldy where there's no cell service here in southern California through a repeater that's on a 5,700 foot peak 40 miles away that she's almost 20 miles from.

I'm not particularly impressed with it. It does work, but it has lousy filtering so it picks up noise when the car is moving. Also, the transmit audio sucked eggs until I drilled out the mic hole to almost 1/4". Even at that it's still somewhat low. It's an OK-enough backup radio for throwing in another car when I need it but I can't recommend it as a primary radio, especially since I had to mod it to make it audible. I wanted to like it, I like the form factor, and maybe there are some versions that work better. Just not this one. In fact, this radio is sort of the last straw between me and the cheap Chinese radios flooding the market. Except for my Baofeng UV5Rs. I'm still a fan of those.

Can you communicate? Maybe. You're both at the very fringe of the repeater's claimed range. With Baofeng HTs? Doubtful unless you both have absolutely clear line of sight between you and the repeater. And this is not just an issue with "lowly" Baofengs. It's an issue with any (roughly) 5-watt handheld. You would have better luck with a mobile radio that puts out more wattage. As with everything radio-related, your results may vary.

Pretty much every mobile GMRS and ham radio comes with SO-239s on the radio, in spite of their lossy nature on VHF and UHF. I have heard of folks changing the connectors on the radios to N, but most people I know just use what's there. My 2m, 440 and 1200 Mhz repeaters, with their associated duplexers, circulators and antennas, are all N connectors.

$65 (!) shipped to southern California. In some cases, I've had generic connectors fall apart or not seat correctly. Those are the two (rare) problems I've had with cheap connectors. The vast majority have been trouble-free.