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There's a whole lot of theory behind it, I'm sure someone will try to explain it. Bottom line, it's a half-wave vertical antenna with a matching circuit in the base. It doesn't need a special type of coax. Just 50-ohm coax like RG-58, RG-8x, something like that.

Frankly, I wish the ancients would have just left it alone. I don't know who's bright idea it was to tamper with it in the first place. Ben Franklin, George Hudson, William Willett, some dude in Canada, whatever. I like having more daylight after work but I'd be just as happy with standard time as long as we just pick one.

I would venture to guess that in spite of all the controversy they generate, the Baofeng UV5R and its GMRS variants are the most popular handheld transceivers in history. Haters gonna hate.

I would much rather stay on DST permanently. It's the abrupt change, especially in the spring, that throws me off.

Yes. Any more questions?

Yep, the only real complaint I have is the reduction of power on GMRS even into a good mobile GMRS antenna.

Welcome!

I don't want to incriminate myself, but I will anyway. The MARS/CAP mod on my FT70 resulted in successfully being able to transmit in the GMRS portion of the spectrum, but at reduced power. Like by almost half. The stock antenna doesn't support the higher frequencies, but a Signal Stick does. Also, the automatic repeater shift doesn't work out of the amateur bands, so you need to manually set it up. In an emergency situation, (where we can leeeeeeeagally use our beloved UV5Rs on GMRS), I prefer my UV5R because the power doesn't seem to fold back.

Exactly. Which is why I don't generally recommend using radios on services they're not certified for. I will say they do work, but I stop short of actually saying "It's OK to use a UV5R on GMRS".

There has never been a better description of the forums on this site.

Awesome! You've mastered the art of setting up a repeater in a handheld radio! Lots of folks have trouble at first. As you can see, there are some folks who will inevitably bring up the fact that technically, the UV5R isn't certified for GMRS, but there are others, me included, who bring up the fact that hardly anyone cares. It's the subject of multiple unresolved threads and posts here. My advice, and probably the advice of others as well, don't ask, don't tell, and definitely don't get suckered in to endless debates about it. Have fun with GMRS.

Welcome! Key up the repeater, say your call sign, and say "monitoring" or "listening" or "testing". If the repeater responds, you should hear a courtesy tone come back. Ask for a signal report, (not a radio check, that's how you pay for radios), and if anyone is listening they may come back to you. Just make sure you ID properly when you are conversing on a repeater, and speak normally like you're on the phone or in person. No silly jargon. I have a Baofeng UV5R and a pair of UV82s that work fine on repeaters.

I run Windows 10 on a desktop. I have several 30-40 year old Motorola Quantar repeaters. I just installed the "old" software on the desktop that loaded in a compatibility mode and using a 9-pin null modem cable, I successfully programmed one of the Quantars. We'll need to use an RS232-to USB adapter with a laptop for remote work.

Actually, we would be getting rid of standard time, not daylight savings time, if any of a number of attempts to make daylight savings time permanent ever succeed. We tried it in 1974 and for a variety of reasons, folks didn't like it. Although we thought it was cool walking to school in the dark. It didn't last a year. All indications are that we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.

Which can be up to 1,500 watts worth of experimentation.

It goes deeper than that. They're not even watching.

Yep, sometimes these threads deviate from the original subject. Although having a commercial radio in a Chevy Vega would make it faster to get a tow truck rather than going through a middleman like AAA. So there is that.

I stand corrected. I thought they came out with a V6 before they went away. I do know of a few guys in my high school who did wedge V8s into them, and one guy wo did stick a Buick V6 in his.

Only if the car lasted long enough to need a spark plug change. My sister had one but it was the 4 cylinder.

I look for videos about how to replace this or that on my van... Three hours later, I know how to completely tear down, clean, and reassemble several different antique watches and a 1929 bench vise... but I'm still in the dark about how to change the three spark plugs on the back of the engine.

You just can't help yourself, can you. When that guy with the YouTube channel berates "some people", it's probably because one of them got on his channel and made some idiotic comment. At least he actually brings some decent content to the table. You, on the other hand, pride yourself on belittling folks for no reason. Welcome to my Ignore User list. You'll like it there. Lots of people there with your same mentality.

Mercy sakes looks like we got us a convoy. And for those of you who haven't heard it, I highly recommend searching YouTube for CB Savage, another gem from the golden age of Citizens Band. That's not where this particular lyric is from, but it's a fun song.

It's interesting to note that according to APCO, the folks who came up with the whole idea of shorthand codes 85 years ago, 10-codes have been slowly phased out of public safety radio over the past ten years in favor of good old plain speech, for one reason because there are too many variations. So instead of saying 10-100, we can all simply say we need to pull over and take a ____.

We have a GMRS repeater sitting at 5,700 feet here in southern California that reaches from San Diego to well north and east of Los Angeles. Hearing all these folks whine about adding channels, modes, bands and frequencies to GMRS makes me laugh, because It is quiet 90% of the time. Its members don't even use it much, let alone the affiliates like me who pay $12 a year. Most of what I hear on GMRS is simplex, and not much of that either.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people post on this forum about how GMRS, MURS, FRS or amateur radio should do something or include something they don't already. The general public has available bandwidth and modes up the yazoo between CB, MURS, amateur, GMRS and FRS, and still that's not enough. Sheesh.