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the price is what blows me away.. I have two of the new Baofengs DM32 radios with 2500 mH and i get an easy 2.5 days out of them, 3-4 in monitor mode. That 5200 on a UV5 has to last an easy week for under 25 bucks..

yup.. could be a chrger too. Some people with big linears use chargers for whatever reason.

personally, I don't use networked repeaters.. Although i've had plenty of opportunity as there are quite a few out there, I shy from the practice because its not legal.

how big is the inverter

As of last April. Yes

Wow, check out this big bruit battery from Baoefeng and the price. https://www.baofengradio.com/products/battery-5200mah-bl-5rhplus-usb?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email

right now relatively easy and kind of cheap. I'm sure everyone will be building repeaters but if this approves current off the shelf will be just that. "off the shelf' Gone.. Like Mark says, the duplexers are giants and i remember a time whan they were thrown away as junk.. I can lithely remember Placer County tossing them after trying to give them away.. Those days are gone. Now you can't find them.

i've noticed that too.. A year ago you could buy retired used Commercial radio stuff on Ebay cheap cheap.. I was lucky and got a few things including a couple high end Hytera Repeaters, one of them brand new. Now, the used commercial stuff is going for high dollar premiums and the junk left over from then..

Meanwhile. the price of coffee, at least what i spend, can buy 6 of those big box platform radios. But i prefer to save for 6 months and buy the bigger bigger box platform.. I'll take a Hytera please.

in FM the modulation stays the same it uses all the bandwidth, In AM the amplitude of the carrier wave changes with the instantaneous amplitude of the modulationg signal. AM essentiality uses less bandwidth with more emphasis on the modulating carrier

Authorized, yes. But FM requires all of that bandwidth and AM doesn't.

i think AM is going to be the winner in shooting skip over FM just because AM uses much less bandwidth which lessens the effects of the atmosphere and other conditions.. FM will be more clear in audio in shorter range but also be more acceptable to degradation over range because of its bandwidth characteristics... AM transmission is defianlty better for longer distance transmission

I wrote the FCC in favor of this petition and also suggested in my letter if the FCC favored this proposal they should also use this opportunity to clean up the exisitng GMRS rules and clarify existting rules. I.e. Limit GMRS repeater ownership to 3 or less, do not permit cross state GMRS Repeater ownership, clarify rules related to 'charging for use of a repeater". Rewrite current rules on Linking so that it is clear the practice is simply illegal and take the confusion of other networks out of the rules. .. This wold be a great opportunity for the FCC to clean up all the gray areas with the rules.. One of my buddies in Riverside (FCC) office says this proposal actulliy has some traction.. The more we write in favor of this the better chance it has.

its got a way better chance of happening then Linking on GMRS.. You might be wrong on this one.. I woild give it a better chance though. maybe in 2 years.. Lets Bookmark that comment... Looser buys the other a ice cold tall beer

I agree..