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I don’t disagree.

Yes it is but not specifically, it sold as “business band and GMRS mobile” which is a bit broader. But again I’m just cautioning someone that may not have your skills on “GMRS specific antenna” trimming.

I absolutely agree. However the Tram 1174 isn’t sold as a GMRS specific antenna (that I’m aware of) and my comment was about antennas sold for specifically for GMRS. My point being if you purchase an GMRS only antenna you likely won’t be trimming it. Also any antenna that has duel frequencies or broader frequencies will suffer in some areas so as you mentioned may need some tuning if you want something specific out of it. edit- I mentioned this not to be argumentative but rather to caution someone of trying to tune an antenna that likely wouldn’t need it and may ruin it.

Which isn’t accessible unless you’re registered with your license on the site. So just a heads up it is against this sites rules to do so outside of the Private Discussion form for reasons stated below. For that reason I keep at least the name of the repeater unknown while discussing the particulars. Private content. Do not post sensitive information such as repeater PL/DPL (also known as privacy or CTCSS/DCS tones) tones outside of the Private Discussion forum. This is to protect sensitive information from being picked up and indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing. Also, do not post any personal information about our members, including but not limited to, their home address even if it is publicly available by searching online.

I would add most (at least the ones I’ve seen) GMRS antennas come pre tuned and would not likely benefit from trimming.

The forum and the map/repeater site need to be logged into separately but will use the same passcode.

Apologies for the off topic but yes they are, good eye and thanks. One of my retirement projects. I installed Bluetooth. used it for Christmas music with family here last year. Dual cone Pioneer car speakers I had laying around. Transformer is below the wire wheel base

I agree. My understanding is if the call sign is already registered here it can’t be used again but @rdunajewski (aka Rich) is really the person to ask. I reported my own post in this thread so hopefully he will see it and properly respond to your (op) question.

This ^^^ If the repeater is open and free to use it's easy to fall into the stale category. If it's been more than a year since the owner has logged into their repeaters on the site it goes stale. It happens to a friend of mine every year. A year goes by faster than you think.

I got my GMRS lic. first and then my amateur lic. as did a few of my friends. Of the people I know with both it's about 50/50 of what they got first. I can't say if that translates out beyond my world or not or how or why it matters. That's just my experience thus far.

Exactly!!! The memorizing argument is ridiculous, How did you learn anything ever in life without some memorizing. Even as a kid we used flash cards to help learn things. For sure hands on helps with retention but there is no retention without memory.

He may be wrong but as he does often he did answer first. @WSEW200 could we see a photo? Maybe that would help with the brainstorming. Could you securely shim it to prevent it sitting on an angle with the screws going through the shim maybe? Don't pay any mind to the idea that a lip mount won’t work, I use a variation on the lip mount idea. This actually mounts using the bolts for the hood hinge. This mount is on a Tacoma and made by Rugged Radios. I’m not sure if one is available for the Frontier. I have had very good success with both the MXTA26 and a Comet SBB5. Not a problem.

I stand corrected, my apologies. I saw the Southwest net mentioned and didn’t fully read the link. my bad. I think @rdunajewski would have this info.

Oops my bad

Welcome @WSFH602, great questions. I’d say I wish I knew that it was going to be a rabbit hole of buying radios but I think part of me suspected. As for links here’s a few line of sight tool to see what your line of sight is to local repeaters. Chirp for programming. Radio Reference for scanner frequencies. MyGMRS for repeater listenings. Intro to GMRS video by our own @marcspaz.

I have accidentally done this with my icom 2730A, easy to forget when you usually use the controls on the mic and sound is still coming from one side. Similar but different I once forgot that I still had the programming cable in, which on my radio uses one of the two speaker ports and couldn’t figure out why there was no sound while bench testing. We all have those moments.

Volume knob? Only half joking because It’s easy to bump and not realize when there’s two.

Blasphemy I say!

Just to clarify a couple of things and recap some that have been mentioned. If you are using a GMRS radio you wont have to set the offset, it's automatically set when using repeater channels. Also be sure you are on a repeater channel (23-30, 31-38...) when programming for a repeater and not on simplex (it happens). As mentioned the Premium Membership gives you certain privileges on the MYGMRS sites but has nothing to do with access to repeaters. Sign in on the map/repeater site the same you do here, although they are both MYGMRS it requires a separate log in from the forum site. Then find the repeater you want to access and request permission if it isn't already open to use with the tones posted. I may have added some things you know already but not knowing your level of knowledge here these are some common things that people sometimes miss that people who have been here take for granted that new people will know. Oh yeah, and welcome @BradleyRN to mygmrs.

To clarify while I said dual receive, I actually meant simultaneously receive. Which I don't have turned on on any of my radios anymore because I found it annoying and confusing when two channels came in at once. That would certainly make sense.

Looks like it's right up on the entrance, are they using it to hold open the front door?

I suspect that transmitting on A to the repeater while listening to B on simplex could create issues with desensning and possibly feed back if you have dual receive on. I haven't tried it myself.