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When we RV, I have a portable repeater, two Maxon's cramed into an old Ammo can. I've got a Harbor Freight Telescoping Flag Pole mounted on my rear ladder on my RV. At the top mast I fabricated an angled plate clamped with 1.25" pipe clamps and mounted a Nagoya mobile antenna with a mini ground plane kit. The et-up works great and at some locations i've reached over 40 miles. We use it a Lake Crawley a lot which inspired someone to install a perminant repeater in the nearby mountain ranges. My 5th wheel is set up with solar so no worries with power.. Another guy we RV with got his hands on a Hytera RD965 compact portable repeater on Ebay real cheep.. It's a DMR repeater but works in Analog as well. Thats a very nice setup, it has provisions for its wine battery pack. He uses the same antenna set up i have. I stole his idea.. The Harbor Freight Telesctping flag pole is pretty decent, works well and under 100 bucks..

WHY???? serves zero purpose,, nada, nothing.. its even funny

Hell, i'm probably as old as you and 'had' the same mindset. I've been in communications my whole life, Retired from it.. 20 years ago when i decided i wanted to get into some UHF Radio stuff took the Tech test and passed with a breeze.. At the same time, the VM's talked me into taking the General and Extra, i passed both of those, (barely). I only studied for the Tech.. OK.. Now i had a year to pass 5 words a minute in mores code. Had no interest, never studied, never took the test. Last week Steve Shannon posted a Ham study site here. https://hamstudy.org/. I tried the General and Extra for the hell of it. Scored the General at 78% and Extra at 80% first stab.. So i decided, (i still have a little left in me) to study a lil bit more and go take both test and hopefully pass at 100%.. What the hell.

I don't think the FCC is gonna be 'nice'.. As they already have.. Typically their 'grace period' is 90 days.. So Hmmmm,, are we getting close yet?

Well, lets just wait and see.

When i got my Tech Lic some 20 years ago,, the VE told me that 25% of licensed Ham actually participate in using the service.. So i would imagine that number is about the same for Ham use. IMO i think licensed users in GMRS is a little more active.. I monitor both bands and i hear quite a bit more activity in the GMRS side than i do on the Hanm side.. would guess GMRS around 30%..

And hiding under 'REACT' by any chance?

more than likely where the missing repeaters are hiding.. defiantly not due to owners not posting their coordinates.. That number is very very low

There is a very very small count of owners not submitting coordinates for their repeater.. The last time i counted these, about 6 months ago, it was less than 15 overall for the complete database.

Report it.. (them)..

Last January the ARRL reported 336,513 GMRS issued licenses, and 386,122 Technician issued licenses. Looks like there is slightly more Sad Hams out there.

No ID??? And you called him a Ham?? Common Shannon, you know better than that...

you talking about the 3 dummy out-laws back east.. The FCC is watching each one of them very closely.. YUP

the lack of support signatures pretty much says it all.. The % supporting it is very very low..

I had mine sitting in similar spot in my Ram for a while. I liked the location but it was kind of a pain maneuvering my sun screen..

Go to your bedroom.. NOW

You are just 'Full of' all kinds of fairy tales.. aren't you.. N E X T..

Every instance i've heard off, ducting in the upper UHF Band seems to probagate on receiving signals more than it does allowing two way communications over the same distance.. I've heard a lot of stories where people can listen to a very distant station but none where two stations actually commucated over that distance.. Would it be possible YES, but conditions would have to be near perfect.. I would like to hear from someone if they ever made a two way contact under ducting conditions. Haven't yet.

The FCC will never spend a millisecond changing the rules to allow linking in the GMRS Band when linking is already established and managed under Ameture Radio. Plain and simple, GMRS does NOT have the allowable bandwidth and nor does it have responsible groups to manage the spectrum. And secondary, it will never consider DMR in the Band for the same reasons.. (But i do think DMR has a better chance) To you folks that constantly wine and cry about wanting to legally 'get off' on repeater linking in GMRS.. It's time to become a 'Sad Ham' Bring Randy with ya, he just might enjoy himself.

I live in the upper Mojave Desert (Indian Wells Valley) every once in a while as it nears evening hours i can hear a popular repeater out of the San Bernadine Mountains. The communication doesn't last long and fades weak to very strong. As Steve Shannon points out, it is a phenonium caused by elevated ducting caused by cooling Air. Although 'listening' would be common, i think it would be a very rare instance where you could actually communicate with that distant repeater during these conditions.

I'll save a seat for you Randy,, In the back row

that won't work with those outlaws Stick with the Verb

you know they won't put them in jail. I don't think the FCC as ever put anyone in jail.. Put for sure, they will draw the hammer

very small handful of out=laws that will learn the hard way.. At last count there are about 3 of them the FCC is keeping tabs upon... Before you get all excited 'Randy' I never reveal my sources. So STFU..

You are an out-law