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I just purchased a pair of Radioddity GM-N1 GMRS radios which boast about their "AI noise-canceling chip and double DSP". Can anyone give me an idea of how they compare to both the older and newer Talkabouts (I would also assume that Motorola and Radioddity are incompatible with each other). If I am talking to my wife through a repeater, would you guys suggest that we disable companding so that we will not have that "expletive" sound that was described above to casual listeners or should we not care about others outside of our QSOs?

Those Radio Shack FRS mobile units might date back to the time after channels 8-14 were added, but before the first seven channels were allowed more than half a watt, so they could be half a watt on all fourteen channels. The commission might have added their mobile restriction with that model in mind. I do not remember the exact chronology of rule changes.

Just a little bit more privacy, like say, as a last resort, I absolutely had to use GMRS to transfer some credit card information really quickly and were afraid of scanners?

I have a similar question: There are no repeaters on a particular channel for well over a hundred miles from my area. Would it be legal to talk simplex with low-power handy talkies on that input frequency?

I sent six requests on Mygmrs.com to five repeater licensees in my area but only one (with two nearby repeaters) replied. Another of the repeaters is listed with Repeaterbook.com as "travel tone" (141.3) and "Open Road Initiative", so I suppose it is open to all. It is a lot easier on the amateur bands where all repeaters are "assumed" to be open unless they use a DPL tone. Repeaterbook,com lists 650 in Myrtle Beach as closed but 700 in North Myrtle Beach as open

Let us combine the two: Digital voice would work nicely on the ten meter repeater channels.

Glad to meet you, NotaRubicon, we (the royal plural) have enjoyed many of your videos.

I get it, Argentina is in an America and America is in an America but they are in different Americas...I guess.

Is Argentina also in America? I know they are in South America.

If you are using an actual splitter/combiner, then the impedances are already matched so do not use any 75Ω (that would only be necessary if you were using an empty T-connector). Do use the same amount of 50Ω cable, though, between the splitter/combiner and each antenna. But I would still go with Wyoduner and recommend an A/B switch.

Where is that first one? Doesn't America mean two continents? Mexico and Canada are both in North America.

I would suggest using two antennæ with an A/B switch.

We have spent many years working ten meter FM repeaters from around North America and one in the USVI while mobile and it because the band opens most days, an eighth-wave antenna is short and fairly efficient, low power is fine because good repeaters have lots of receiver gain, the audio has FM clarity, it does not distract the driver, and we can speak to regulars every day from around the state who are too close to contact by skywave but too far to contact by direct wave.