quarterwave Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Here is the thread from RR.com...so I don't reinvent the wheel... http://forums.radioreference.com/gmrs-frs/305669-cool-little-gmrs-mobile-introduced-midland-ces-2015-a.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdunajewski Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Scary. Apparently no repeater offsets, which is probably for the best. The innovation award still goes to Radio Shack for their "mobile" FRS unit from many years ago that I'm sure a lot of you will remember well. I don't see this being much better aside from the respectable (for this grade of radio) 5W output. For the uninitiated, in order to get around the fixed antenna requirement of FRS on the Radio Shack FRS radio, they put the RF components in the base of the antenna, and the remote control is nothing more than a speaker mic with a display. No RF is carried over the cable. Pretty genius! http://support.radioshack.com/support_electronics/doc64/64766.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunnernm Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 That Radio Shack transceiver (21-1850 if memory serves) was a fine little car radio. It would indeed reach the 3 miles claimed in the manual. The down sides were, no spring on the antenna. Any bump would knock the magnet mount loose. And the cable from the control head to the antenna was not very resistant to UV. Dried and cracked very quickly. But all in all a BIG step above CBs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quarterwave Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Yeah, that RS unit was neat...surprised no one else has tried it. It's still a unicorn on eBay...just happened to see one once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Somewhere, one of my friends has a 40W, 90/95A Midland radio from the 90's. It was miles ahead of the GM300 (for the same price point as what I remember) as far as the display goes…but I can't find the software nor programming cable anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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