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  1. Hey there Bill, thanks for the reply! I am able to hit home while standing outside of my vehicle. It came up in one of the posts, but we have rather large burms next to most of our roads. When I get the HT antenna up over the burms, I hit home just fine, even in the next town over, about 7 miles from home! It helps, too, that this town is a little bit higher than home is. It's only a couple dozen feet of elevation, but that makes a lot of difference! Since I'm generally not higher than the burms when I'm driving, that's probably a bigger contributor to my signal woes than my car!
  2. @MichaelLAX Thanks for the input! I've been really pleased with every bit of Radioddity equipment I've interacted with (and now owned!) and they generally sit in a nice price-to-review area, as far as I can tell. It'll definitely be on the short list when I look at buying. Sorry to hear about your bike!
  3. You don't work for Radioddity, do you? You're gonna get me in trouble with the wife, my Amazon cart is getting really heavy.
  4. @KAF6045, Thanks for the reply! I was actually planning on terminating the coax from the antenna in my dash and slapping an adapter on it (I have, er, a few, because I've been listening to ham with an SDR for a few years now), then using a shorter SMA cable from the adapter to the HT. That said, if it really is only rated for so few cycles, that might be the best argument against this whole effort. I had no idea there were 12v plug mobile radios (really showing my lack of research there!), so that would make both my wife and me happy about not having to potentially tear apart the car to get power to it! That was my biggest concern, actually, that getting power to it would cost me as much or more than the radio. @Borage257, thank you as well. I suspected that the reason I couldn't get a good signal from the car was because I was sitting and kind of below some of the rather tall burms we have beside our roads here. Makes sense that getting up out of my car would let me clear them and be heard further away. I guess I would be solving my problem with a mobile antenna anyway, eh?
  5. If you're ever up closer to Richmond or Fredericksburg, I monitor channel 20 and would be happy to talk!
  6. Hey folks, this is my first post in this wonderful community! I want to be able to use my HT (a Radioddity GM-30) from my vehicle. I know, I know, the car acts as a faraday cage or whatever. Duh, it's made of metal! I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to invest in a mobile radio (okay, okay, my wife isn't ready to invest in a mobile radio), but I do still want to be able to check in with home while in the car. For the curious, the main use case I have right now is to communicate with home (to another GM-30) from around our little town. The range we're talking about here is literally less than four miles in most cases. The furthest I'll actually need to be able to reach is only 6 miles, and even then I have more or less perfect line of site to home. We tested! But, unsurprisingly, I get zero signal from inside my vehicle when more than about a mile away from the house. To resolve this problem, I plan on grabbing a mobile GMRS antenna, plopping it on the trunk, and running coax up to my console, where I'll be able to screw it directly to my HT and talk! Right? I don't actually know! On to the actual question: Are there any gotchas I should be aware of when plugging a mobile antenna into my HT radio? I know it won't transmit as far, given it only has 5 watts, I know it's not the ideal setup for an HT, but I'm also reasonably sure it should work for my use-case. Are there any problems that I may need to solve, or that make this solution completely untenable? Thanks in advance!
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