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35 minutes ago, WSAK691 said:
You did? That's a strange coincidence.. Can we see your signal generator and radio-lab? You just happened to do a head-to-head of two radios that surely nobody would buy at once, but is the topic of this discussion..?
Hilarious, you obviously do not know anything about who you are talking to.
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1 hour ago, Jarrow said:
So the CCRs say no external antennae of any kind, not even a satellite dish unless approved first. Since our house is one the first few being built, I’m guessing it’s gonna be a big fat “N-O” haha. Oh well, best case is the house has an RV bay with a 16-foot ceiling so maybe I can put one inside unless that’s basically pointless. I think we’ll just use our handheld radios for now(KG-905Gs w/ Nagoya 771G antennas) and try out that repeater that’s literally only a couple miles away in Star.
Thank you all for sharing your time, knowledge and experience with me. Very much appreciated!
Just so you know, an HOA, or even a municipality cannot regulate satellite dish antennas under one meter in diameter unless you are in Alaska where you can have any size antenna. This does not apply to other services though. There are safety related things that can be regulated, even then they cannot require prior approval. "A valid enforceable placement preference should not contain prohibited provisions such as prior approval or require professional installation. " Here is the FCC page with all the information. https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule
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On 4/2/2024 at 10:34 PM, OffRoaderX said:
Warning: Do NOT listen to the "experts" that love to spend your money - for occasional tuning/testing of your antenna you do NOT NEED a $500+ SWR meter.
Normal people use inexpensive meters like the Surecom SW-33 or SW-102, and they work just fine.
If you plan on testing/tuning antennas professionally or as some kind of a hobby, then by all means get one that costs much more and is *slightly* more accurate.
I take offense to that. I use a Surecom SW-102 and I'm not normal.
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1 hour ago, Sshannon said:
That protects the base of the mount, but isn’t effective at protecting your paint. The vinyl will still move against the car’s painted surface, maybe even easier than the rubber.
Iron dust (which is everywhere because 5% of the earth’s crust is iron) will be attracted to the magnet through the vinyl and can become embedded into the vinyl where it will abrade the paint.
If the vinyl is stuck to the paint then it becomes the sacrificial surface that the mount grinds against.It is much easier on the paint than what was originally on the base, and it can be easily removed and replaced when necessary. I have been using this for many years on different vehicles for various applications, and as I stated, the vinyl is attached to the base, not the paint of the car. Alternately you could apply the film to the roof of the vehicle, which is actually what it is designed for anyway. I have some attached to the paint of a motorcycle to prevent paint damage where something rubs against it. It comes off easily.
The base originally had a very thing plastic/vinyl covering, not rubber, so this isn't really different, and with a 6 inch tall antenna, it isn't moving while driving. The only time it moves is when I try to remove it.
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I used 3M clear paint surface protection vinyl film. I applied it to the base of the magnet mount, trimmed around most of the base, leaving a wide section about an inch or so long one side, then folded the tail over to make it double thickness to be used as something to grab when removing the antenna. Also keep the paint under it well waxed.
And it looks like I need to remove and clean it and the car once the weather breaks.
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20 hours ago, WRXP381 said:
You should come out to California. We have a club that basically every member of the club gets well over 30miles with a hand held. And this is in Southern California urban areas. It’s again about line or site and antenna height and quality. This junk about hand helds only getting 2 miles is total junk. It’s 2 miles to my mail box and I can run a small 2” antenna and be on low power and still talk ht-ht with full quieting. Heck even my 5w hand held hooked up to a comet 712 does over 30miles full quieting. Pm me for real info. I’m done talking to these guys.
Gee, come to Western Pennsylvania. In many places you will get a mile or less. Valley to the other side of the hill doesn't work too well, neither does parking lot through buildings and trees. Of course it's about antenna height. I would need an 80 foot or taller tower to get more than two miles. When I am on a high hilltop, about three miles away, I can talk to my wife in the house using a mobile to a handheld. I can barely hit a repeater about 7 miles away from my house using a handheld, but not well enough to talk. They have a hight tower on a hill though. I can walk with a handheld to a cemetery near my house, and lose the ability to talk to my wife on another handheld about a half mile away. I'm in a valley, it's all about terrain and antenna height, coupled with trees and buildings, in other words, what everyone has been saying.
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11 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:
It does, but in most cases most normal people would not notice.. It is MUCH better at filtering out noise/static/bleed-over though, which you WILL notice.
Good to know, thanks!
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The Wouxun may have a more sensitive receiver, but I cannot confirm that. I have the first generation of the BTECH, but if I were buying new today, I would go with the Wouxun. I bought the BTECH at a good price from someone here on the forum. It is well worth the price I paid, but the Wouxun wasn't on my radar at the time.
Keep in mind the Wouxun has a detachable faceplate, giving it more installation options.
Phil
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It never was about cost cutting, nor did the manufacturers cite that as a reason. Most want to remove it due to the problem with interference, Ford want to get rid of AM in electric and gas powered cars. I am sure part of the reason Ford wants to do that, is to standardize between the electric vehicles not having AM radio, and their gas powered counterparts, not as they claim, simply modernizing.
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20 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:
It is my understanding (which is open to correction by others) that your SWR affects your transmission far greater than reception. But I am unclear if the correct word is affects or effects..
In this case it is affects. You can affect a change, that will have an effect.
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I don't know, without the FCC I can see all sorts of issues related to interference of aviation communications, not a good thing. Interference with police communications, railroad, emergency medical communications, etc. They also oversee and regulate spurious emissions from electronic devices. Are you sure you want a free for all?
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21 hours ago, Kdcstks said:
What a DICK
Sorry, I don't agree. He simply made a joke about the thread title. His joke was funny, and not offensive. Your response however, was, in calling someone a DICK. I clicked on the thread expecting it to be about someone other people on the forum might know, perhaps asking if anyone had heard from Terry, or maybe if anyone thought a product or service someone named Terry offered was worthwhile, or maybe letting people know Terry had passed away. Nope, just a post asking a question about a radio. Good question, bad thread title, which I am sure was not intentional on your part.
Thread titles are used so people know what the thread is about. Calling someone a DICK for making a joke about a thread title that doesn't come close to describing what the thread was about is an emotional knee-jerk reaction. Maybe take a second to breathe and rethink. ONce again, I believe your mis-named thread was not intentional, but it did nothing to tell anyone what your thread was about, hence the joke.
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Put a dab of grease on them and all will be well.
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On 5/20/2023 at 8:13 PM, AdamLindsay said:
Thanks for the response, I happened to have the mic on the antenna at the time but while driving the mic is usually clipped to my seat belt at chest level.
and for the second question, no I have not tried with out an antenna attached. But I can say that the 805g radio has a stock antenna and suffers from this and with the stock antenna on the new 935g+ it does as well.
He wasn't suggesting trying with no antenna, but rather and external antenna, one mounted outside the vehicle, on the roof or elsewhere, replacing the radio mounted rubber ducky antenna.
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23 hours ago, marcspaz said:
Oh, I'm not fighting, just having a discussion. Thats probably why it looks like I'm bad at fighting. LoL
I'm not disputing your technical point that more power equals more penetration or improved range. That is just matter of fact. My contention is more a matter of the significance of the improvement.
That said, just to be friendly and see if you are correct or not, I am 100% willing to go in the woods behind my house with a radio and a field strength metere to conduct an actual measured test of the situation you are describing. Now, if you just want to have an exercise in rhetoric rather than discover usable and actionable information, then I'm not goto do the test.
@everyone... if anyone wants me to do the test, I will, but I have no interest in doing it for my own sake. So, if anyone wants it, just let me know.
Not gonna lie, it would be interesting to see the results. I too believe they would be insignificant in a real world situation, but it would be interesting to see what the meter says, coupled with a subjective review of actual voice reception.
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More expensive, but a good radio, I have two of them, and have used them for seven years so far. https://powerwerx.com/tera-tr505-gmrs-recreational-handheld-radio
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3 hours ago, marcspaz said:
I wish you the best of luck, but it's a solid pass for me. I bought the V1 when it was released and did a review of it. I loved some of it and hated some of it. In the end, I didn't recommend it.
After looking at the v2, it looks like the same radio with a new part number. Plus, I am not sure how much I trust a radio when the manufacturer had to put the following 2 items in the "Getting Started" section of the manual... I mean, they catch fire so often that how to avoid it and how to deal with it when it happens is in the manual? Not a confidence builder, to say the least.
If the unit emits smoke or an odor, you should immediately cut off the power supply. Then send the radio to the nearest service center or dealer.Do not operate the mobile transceiver on high power unless it is necessary...In fairness, I think the second statment regarding power is a bad translation of " An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications."
The fire... well...
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1 hour ago, gortex2 said:
The only true test is a dummy load on your meter and verify you see high power into the dummy load. If its 25 +/- 10% then you can dig into antenna system but without a true known level its hard to know if its the radio or the meter.
I was getting on to say the same thing. It says so right in the user's manual. I have the same meter.
DPL -> DCS
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It's my understanding is that DPL is Motorola's name for DCS.