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I agree..

well, assuming your magnet mount used as a reference is using a different cable. I would start looking at the cable or connectors. And try moving your ghost antenna to the mag mount and check that. If you see the same poor SWR than the antenna is suspect.. Process of elimination is the game. Try reading in one set of circumstsnces than anoter as i suggested. It's not always easy to chase poor swr problems..

i can't afford to give up any cafeene. The price of coffee is infringing on my radio Hobby ..

I have traveled and spent time camping all over the place. The only place i have encountered 70CM tropospheric ducting is right here in the Indian Wells Valley or the foot of the Sierras. And the traffic i was picking up was coming form Southern California, just a mere 140miles south. Although i tried a couple times, i never was able to make a contact with someone 'ducting' in but their conversions were coming in like there were sitting next to me.

just don't spill it on ya

you have a point.. my shirt was looking out for for me

and you didn't spill coffee on your shirt reading it.. you're lucky

two violators don't make a right

and sending a letter to the President? Talk about going 'over heads'

Damit... I need to change my shirt.. I spilt coffee all over my fresh clean shirt.. Damit... To early for this

I used to throw the 10-11 metter in my truck when making frequent trips back and forth between here, (the Desert) and Sacramento.. That all ened back in 23.. I used to catch a lot of truckers, picking them on 58 in Tehacappi all the way north along 99 and back.. Very rarelty did i here them on GMRS and if i did, they were traveling in pairs on long haul deliveries.

Yet, a lot of people ignore the rule and talk simplex on them anyway, mostly travelers. I guess they think they are being more 'private'

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what is most reliable?? I only relay on one (this place) because others just don't cut the gravy.. Although i would love to see other places, like Repeater Boojk, be just as reliable.

Most HAM operators i'm acquainted with knows how to use the tools available to him/her to find HAM repeater frequencies and associated PL tones.. GMRS is really no different other than the resources to find that info.. Unlike HAM where you have a handfull of ways to find repeater info, this site (MyGMRS.com) is probably the single and most preferred place to find GMRS repeaters. Repeater Book tried but failed to gain traction with GMRS users.. Stick with MyGMRS and you'll find all the info you need to access GMRS repeaters acfross the nation.

the lack of volunteer frequency coordination to manage the GMRS repeater spectrum will kill any chance the FCC will even come close to consider permitting linking. And i honestly don't think it would take to many complaints about bandwidth hogging to awake the FCC sending out a few letters to the BIG abusers. Especially with some of these guys whom blatantly advertise what they are doing while taking money to do it. They don't affect me so i quite making noise about it, but i have been in cities where these guys operate and i can see the problems they create.

it is an investment,, But not as bad as you think. RVing is all we do for entertainment.. We don't spend money on airfares, ships or hotels, so we look at it as a tradeoff from one or the other. Also, RV's can be written off on your taxes, like a home and i also took advantage of Californias Solar program, 30% off a 1600 watt systems and even qualifed for a PG&E rebate beacause i was temporally living in an RV Park when i installed it ..

Not to mention all the Priate VOIP companies whom are actually stealing form the telephone companies and raking in billions with offsohre scams

i heard that same theory a few years ago and it came from an AT&T Engineer.. But,, today with all these different Broadband providers, not incluidng the old POT companies, its prretty hard to establish a theft violeation because most ISP could care less, they're only interested in selling their serice. Personaly, because of this, i think the FCC needs to redo their deffination of Plain Old Telephone Companies..

I use both only because i have friends on HAM in some areas we travel.. I use GMRS 70% of the time.. It's nice to have the HAM license and utlize their linked systems which does come in handy at times.. Also, there are a couple RV Parks we travel to where the Park Manager is HAM and reaching out to them comes in very handy and really helps getting into the prime spots.. Yea, if yoiu have an interest to get a HAM license, i would go for it.

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My recourse in a situation where all pairs are taken by the same person or group, would be to put up an open repeater on the most busiest channel and share .. Thats basicly all you can do.. If the guy wants to claim airwave ownership and threaten to call the FCC, buy him some popcorn..

I've been an RV'er most of my life.. In the mid 2000's the RV group i traveled with out of Sacramento used HAM frequencies to stay in touch with each other.. It's funny when i compare 'then and now'. Back then our trips where kinda of boring on the road. We seldom used the radios and only did so to coordinate our gas stops. Now and with GMRS we enjoy and look forward to the road time. We actually have a little bit of fun yapping in a casual manner. To me, GMRS is just more relaxing and less stressful. No one to tell you how and what you are dong wrong on the air waves. And now with all these GMRS repeaters out there, 'getting out' with your radio is probably as good or better than the HAM side. I still HAM but most of my time is spent on GMRS

I think the dad has close ties with the PD, which is fine in my book.. Nothing will stop this guy but at least he stoped bothering kids.. I think the real issue with this guy is on the mental side. So we live with him making his rounds jamming repeaters.. This guy has an Extra Ham lic so its a bit more strange why he plays these games.

They (police) did one time here when a 70 year old jack wad started cursing at two kids talking on the radio Ch3.. The kids dad, with help from some of us who knows this menacing idiot gave the dad information who and where he lived.. The dad had a recording and took it to the police.. The police made a visit to the idiot, it shut him up for a few months.. He is now occasionaly out there jamming repeaters and making belching and farting noises over radio conversions.. We no longer hear him cursing and harrasing young kids anymore..