73blazer

A 771G inside a car? That seems like something out of an Airplane! movie.

Zero GMRS around the NW UP, i've tuned in for several years. Someone had a repeater in L'Anse a while back but it's long gone. Even when it was there there was zero traffic on it. HAM has some activity in the area with towers on Mt. Horace Greenly , Calumet, Hancock, Toivola (along the ridge!) .

Uh...I'd bet my next paycheck they are! They have listening posts everywhere, all recorded. In the name of our safety....naturally.

Well, right now you can get a brand new 7300 on HRO for $949.95 shipped. So, $600 for a used one doesn't seem like any screaming deal.

They do plenty of actions against individuals with mean letters and proposed fines. Most just stop their egregious activity, some just ignore the letters and continue. I've never seen one against an individual get referred to the DOJ for actual collection/prosecution however.

I pass out my 905G's for this duty. No programming needed, pick a channel, lock it, and the only functions that work in locked mode are the PTT and volume/on/off knob. Channel knob and all other keys do nothing in locked mode.

What kind of church is this that requires a 32 member security team?

Not sure what that repeater could be designed for. The 430 is clearly in the ham band, the 460 is only listed in the US anyway for space to earth transmissions. The specs are clearly listed on their website as RX430 and TX460 which seems oddly specific and limited. What did you buy it for?

Intent is irrelevant. It shouldn't be, but it is. All that matters is what is written in the actual rules and even that doesn't seem to matter half the time. It was clearly the intent of our founding fathers to not have much if any major powers at the federal level. But the federal gov't seems hellbent to consolidate all powers there (no matter which party is "in power"). So, intent....yeah they can "intend" to do anything they want, it counts for nothing.

Apple and Android both blow. Windows phone, is the only way to roll!

Last time they shut down NOAA weather online even though the actual forecasts were still being issued (via any NOAA weather radio), just not posted online. The shutdowns are a joke as nothing is really shutdown only the perception of a shutdown, except if your a gummit employee counting on a check that will not come and if they're like the 90% of 'mericans who live check to check with zero savings they're not gonna be able to make that Escalade lease payment.

Yeah that's an odd cable, no idea where they got that idea from. pins 2&4 are swapped , so it's not a std patch cable, not a crossover cable, not used in any phone systems with RJ45's, I bet it was used somewhere in China for something, can't believe they just decided to swap a few pins around for fun.

People who buy that cheap thin stuff should be brought in front of a tribunal and sentenced to 60 days of hard labor.

Heavy trees/forest put the hurt on it. Power helps in heavy cover. I've tested numerous HT's and none go past 2mi radio to radio with both being in the same many square miles heavy forest. at 3w 0.75mi is about all you can hope for. at 5 or 5.5w 1.5-1.75mi is what you get add a good antenna and you can get to 2mi or a little more. Out in the open, or in most sparsely populated with homes or trees areas, doesn't matter. You can get to the ISS on .5w or less. Heck, the Voyager space craft used 23w transmitters at launch in the 70's, , now currently tuned down to about 2.5w to save power and 16billion miles from earth in interstellar space, no problems. You don't need much when nothing's in the way!

Do whatever you want there's no "rules", but it's not very understandable unless your using some standards. When somebody calls out "Willie Muffin Bathtub Frisbee 289" the first human reaction is to go WTF, then laugh, then most likely ignore you, or ask again for the call.