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Was on the phone yesterday with my stock broker and the hot investments right now are American companies competing with the Chinese market in hobby and light industiral arts stuff like 3D Printers, Laser cutters and etchers. etc. He also told me some products coming from China like the Bambu Labs 3D printers are going to be made in America still owned by China investors. Overall, i think this is all good and will drive quality back into the things we buy.

J-Poles don't like any type of obstruction around them.. I have talked 90 miles + with my portable setup when mounted out in a wide open area.. But when i get around something like a single treee, it goes to hell like what you are describing. Overall i get pretty good performance from it, defiantly better than a fire stick. I also built a Ladder Lead J-pole, like the Ed Fong version, the copper version seems to work much better.

Copper J-Poles are pretty hard to build for UHF, you must get the precise measurements to a T for the frequencies and they extremely hard to tune SWR's. As others suggested the best way to tune them is via a NANO VNA. I came up with a sliding adjustment gimmick for tuning SWR that works well. Made with cooper compression splices you can get at home depot.

i did a duplicate filter and it did show some but not a lot. Check the highlights on the coordinates. repdubvalues.pdf

I will throw this out when using Windows 11. For some reason i found ID O Matic needed a reboot about every 2-3 days because the time function by Windows 11 would lock up the I D O Matic. ID O Matic seems to use addresses from the Windows clock. I'm not sure if they addressed this, i had the problem about 1.5 years ago. It worked flawlessly when programed via Windows 10 Laptop but I ended up going to Open Repeater with an ICS for a controller. Since then i have aquired a repeater with a built in controller so not messing with controllers anymore. The ID O Matic was just o.k. but i enjoyed the ICS controller a whole lot better. In fact, i may end up implementing it back to my existing repeater.

I filtered out below 3.. There are tons of operators with two. I have two as well, but i only report one because the second repeater, like you is portable, it goes where i go. And for the most part, i shut down my main reported repeater when on extended camping trips away from home

Entireley possible, I'll check the master and see if i can weed out duplicates. I did sort these by active. There were many more reported as inactive that were not included as should be.. I'll check both coordinates and locations, and delete any duplicates..

I can see the traffic issue in areas like New York, New Jersey etc. Some people have complained about it, It’s very easy to see why

yes, earlier this afternoon the site was quirky.. I had trouble pulling some DB data down. Had about a 20 min window when it seemed to work well.

Like I said.. I can't help you Bud.. Maye you can tell your friends to update their stuff. If i could read 'minds' we would all be 'Rich'

Can't help you with that 'Bud'

listing what is reported on MYGMRS.. As of of this morning

Also, i had to emulate Windows 10 when i installed on my Windows 11 machine. If i remember, you right click on the executable and choose Windows 10 emulation. but i honesty can't remember. something to google.. also might help to run your zip extraction in Admin Mode,, another right flight, run as administrator

its a very easy step by step process. Pretty hard not to get it the first time. You will need to install and use PUTTY which is free, The instructions allso show you how to download and install PUTTY.

I thought for sure you would say 'Alexandria'

No necessalry the 'rage'. Just something that got literally out of hand. Of course, i can see why someone like Cogent wants to keep the sharks flying. Big Money!

I got really curious how many GMRS repeaters are owned or licensed by a single license on the reported repeaters here on MyGMRS. So i put together a quick little (actually pretty large) report that shows just that. The parameters are 3 repeaters and above and identified by single call sign as reported. I really didn't expect to see some of the numbers some folks have in the number of repeaters. Holly Cow!. Can you imagine the investment some of these folks have made. So the next question,, Why?? does a single user need so many repeaters for a service meant for family and friends. Especially, after considering how the FCC has clarified its usage. I can see now why some folks in certain areas complain of no bandwidth. Certainly some areas in the mid west and east just have not room.. Just Trivia stuff and very interesting. MultibleRepeaters April2025.pdf

Try AtlanticRadioCorp.com https://www.atlanticradiocorp.com/

i use a home brew Cooper J-Pole for my portable repeater i use for my 5th wheel travel trailer. I mount the antenna on a Harbor Freight telescoping flag pole which is mounted on my rear RV Ladder. (about 25-30' height) The J-Pole (1/2"material) is light enough that it doesn't whip around much on the flagpole. The J-Pole does not require a ground plane, or even a ground which makes it handy for fiberglass RV applications. And it performs reasonably well. I've talked about 90 miles base-to-base with this setup at Lake Crawley where i have wide open areas. However the J-Pole does not perform well around trees or other obstructions.

True, but you might notice and appreciate better functionality, programing, ease of use, screen viewing, better receive sensitivity and last but not least, a prettier wrist strap

Actually not a bad price... But damn it, i need another 3D Printer.

all the way up to 3 Ghz

the lowest loss i have seen in even some of the really really high end expensive UHF Duplexers is 1.2dB.. Put up your fishing pole, going be a hard bite tp find .6dB.

Steve Shannon put it in perspective.. The ISS is a mere 250 miles above earth, not thousands that many may think.. Still, 250 miles is quite a distance for a 5W HT to reach.. I'm sure there are other factors transmitting into space but i can tell you with certainty, i have never been able to talk 250 miles with a UHF HT on earth. The best i have done is roughly 80 miles hitting the El Paso repeater from Palmdale. A line of site shot with that repeater sitting on a 4500' mountain top. Has anyone really talked 250 miles on earth on UHF with a 4-5 watt HT? If so you are the King.