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Well, the ratings look pretty good, the complaints say the hardware is junk but it looks like folks on Amazon are getting good SWR readings, so I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as your received signals are good and people can hear you. You can get yourself a relatively cheap Surecom SWR meter like this one for about $60 if you want to be more confident in the SWR. Lots of people here use it with good results. https://www.amazon.com/Surecom-125-525Mhz-Digital-Antenna-connector/dp/B01MUZISB8/ref=asc_df_B01MUZISB8/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693308325721&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9330456624222961711&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031587&hvtargid=pla-566905769976&psc=1&mcid=9a5732268fb53f9ab49d41ad31efb7cb&gad_source=1

What about the antenna?

What make and model? Also, what kind of coax are you using to connect the HT to the antenna, and how long? (RG-58, RG-8X, RG8, LMR-400, etc.) There may be folks out here who have the same antenna setup and can tell you how theirs performed "out of the box".

He's looking for a mobile antenna.

It's possible with some antennas. I have a Jetstream JTM3B antenna that works quite well on both. Other folks here have similar stories with other antennas. But there's also a lot of dual band amateur radio antennas that won't work well on GMRS. Perhaps others here will chime in with their experience with dual band amateur radio antennas like my Jetstream JTM3B that also work on GMRS.

Love that toy grenade. Sometimes I miss my childhood. Quite often, actually.

OK that's good. But here's the deal. In the very first post I made to contribute an answer your question, I quoted the FCC rule that stated ERP. So to sort of quote a previous post, follow along. FCC Part 95 is often the best place to answer many questions, so if I know there is an answer to a question that resides in Part 95, I (and others here too) will quote them. That's not to say we obey them, but the answers are there. As for obeying them, I don't own a certified GMRS radio. But I am still active on GMRS.

I guess he's not "following along".

Another issue is that it would be pretty tough to get a mobile radio to emit half a watt ERP, especially when it's powered by a car battery or alternator and has a high gain antenna. They're more interested in compliance than with your ability to modify channels.

Just remember who these manufacturers are marketing to. There's a huge market for people who just want to buy a radio and use it out of the box with as little drama as possible. There's a much smaller market that wants to buy a radio and immediately connect it to their favorite software and change everything. The money is in the huge market.

The Wouxun KG-905G you mentioned is a handheld radio. Handheld GMRS radios have no restrictions on what channels they can transmit on. Mobile radios do. It's not lazy programming, it's firmware that the manufacturer has produced in order to stay within the FCC's regulations and sell compliant GMRS radios.

It looks like in the manufacturer's efforts to maintain compliance with the FCC and channel number consistency with other GMRS and FRS radios, the firmware is looking at only the channel numbers when you press the PTT, and doesn't care about what the frequencies are. From a firmware simplicity standpoint, it's probably easier for them to just lock out those seven channels instead of programming the firmware to look for specific frequencies, bandwidth and power levels.

That's because for FRS, those frequencies are FCC-limited to a half a watt narrowband, and for GMRS, FCC-limited to handheld radios only and the same half watt narrowband. So on mobile radios, the manufacturer simply blocks them from transmitting, but still allows receiving. § 95.567 FRS transmit power. Each FRS transmitter type must be designed such that the effective radiated power (ERP) on channels 8 through 14 does not exceed 0.5 Watts and the ERP on channels 1 through 7 and 15 through 22 does not exceed 2.0 Watts. § 95.1763 GMRS channels. (d) 467 MHz interstitial channels. Only hand-held portable units may transmit on these 7 channels. The channel center frequencies are: 467.5625, 467.5875, 467.6125, 467.6375, 467.6625, 467.6875, and 467.7125 MHz.

He's basically the human roger beep of the MyGMRS forums. Some people like roger beeps, some don't, some are ambivalent. That's why even he will say that if you don't like roger beeps, don't listen. Or in the case of YouTube, don't watch.

Enough about Roger beeps. Can we talk about Roger beeps for a while?

Two left groups don't make a right group. But three do.

This is just a guess based on my experience. I had a Juentai JT-6188 (QYT-8900 clone) in my van that sounded fine when I was sitting still, but when moving, even at walking speed, it picked up interference that would break the squelch intermittently. Basically it made the radio unusable as a mobile. I think it was the signal from one or more of the wheel speed sensors overloading the receiver. There was no fix, so I moved it to a go box and used a different (Yaesu) radio. Sometimes there is interference that the radio's filtering simply can't block.

I think that would be a good idea. There are questions across all the different forums here about repeater use, configuration, coverage, access issues, etc, but I think a separate repeater section sort of devoted to folks with repeaters in service, or those wanting to set them up, might pull a lot of the technical conversations into one place. It's one thing to ask about how to configure a radio to access a repeater, but quite another to talk about the technical aspects of setting up, configuring and maintaining a repeater. That's much higher-level stuff. I've seen topics get buried in forums because maybe they're started in the wrong forum, or no one even knows to look for them. I can see a lot of positives for a repeater section, but as it's been said, this ain't my zoo.

Actually that's not a bad idea, and I would vote yes if it came to a vote. While some folks, for some inexplicable reason say ?why?, I say "why not?"

Yes, as a matter of fact. And his daughter.

I saw a video review of these radios today. The guy was talking to his wife on it, and I had to laugh when she said "10-4".

Dude's just trying to go by the rules. No need for snark.

I'm pretty sure flat earthers don't believe Earth is flat. They just live to engage people in endless arguments. The longer the better. The only way to beat them is not to engage.