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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.

Manuals are just how one guy did it.

Every time I see these they remind me of a recent mygmrs discussion revolving around the notion of blowing up your radio with high swr or no antenna and that "no one has ever said such a thing online ever". I'm sure there's a resident youtube channel host who may find humor in both the content of this review and the fact that the extra class operator has questionable spelling and grammar skills to go along with his pontificous reviews. "I an extra class operator and have the proper equipment to measure such antennas on a proper ground plane and also under HT conditions as well. The following are my test results of the Radioddity RD-371 triband 144/222/440 antenna compared to my reference Diamond RH77CA 144/440 antenna. Both antennas were put under the same conditions during the testing. Eg. The same ground plane, coax, test equipment, location to objects, etc. *** UNDER NO CERCUMSTANCES TRANSMIT ON THE 222 mHz BAND UNING THE Radioddity RD-371 triband 144/222/440 antenna! You will destroy your radio in a very short time. The SWR is EXTREEMLY high. Advertising this antenna for Transmitting on the 1.25m band is FALCE ADVERTISING! Even as a dual band antenna this antennas SWR is poor on both the 2m and 70cm bands. The SWR needs to be under 1.5:1 for best performance even before field strength testing. I did not wish to burn my radios up so I did not even do a field strength test on it. I will be sending it beck for a refund. Buyer beware! Test your antenna or have someone who has the proper equipment test it out before you transmit on your radio. Beware of YOUTUBE videos that show some guy testing these antennas out and having good SWR results. Test them out yourself. I mostly buy these just so that I can test them out and review them. On RARE occasion I stumble across a good one and keep it. But a work of advice. Buy a Japan made antenna. The Chinese ones are garbage for the most part with few exceptions."

Have a nice life.

Maybe you can stop throwing hams under the bus. You're ranting to and expecting support from an audience that in many cases have both our GMRS and ham licenses.

It appears you overcame, but can you describe your ordeal?

Not sure if you've been to the Palm Springs area but there's hundreds of wind turbines. Amazing structures, especially up close.

The biggest thing I ever saw being trucked was a C-17 fuselage through the streets of Long Beach late one night. Not nearly the spectacle you saw. I also saw an Airbus A-310 fuselage on I-10 in Arizona.

I'm pretty sure this crew knows what they're doing without input from the experts at mygmrs. These guys don't exactly look like amateurs. Thanks for the cool video, Steve.

All these back-and-forth ignore wars remind me of that old classic by Motley Crue. "Don't go away mad, just go away".

I just messaged you a rough draft. Let me know what you think.

If you'd like I can write up something and you can tell me if it's kind of what you're looking for.

If you'd like I can write up something and you can tell me if it's kind of what you're looking for.

I need to know what you're looking for. A few pages? A booklet? How interested is your audience in technical stuff versus basic info on what GMRS is for and not for? How to use repeaters? This is what I mean about being specific.

Good luck with your project.