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Temperature inversions do neat things to VHF, I've been able to make it in to a repeater 220km away with a 5w HT while driving AWAY from it lol

For my stereo amplifier in my 2010 I went through the passenger side, way way up in the top corner of the firewall. Look under the cowel in the top corner of the firewall, should be a rubber grommet, it's almost impossible to see, and comes in kind of behind the firewall insulation on the...

Found it, unfortunately my firmware is too old. Brick O'Lore: Baofeng UV-5R: Tri-band For those with uv5r's that want to check it out.

I figured that much, wanted to know what software he used.

How did you enable 220?

I used hamtestonline for the canadian basic, casually putting in 40 hours over a few months and got 98/100. It's nice because it gives you an explanation of the stuff you get wrong and as you go it starts focusing on your weak areas. But like others said it's not free.

I've had great luck with my Baofeng UV-5R, survived several drops on my tile floor and still ticking. Regularly get 60km range driving towards repeaters on both VHF/UHF on flat ground, 20-30km driving away in the "hills", and always with great audio reports. It doesn't have a big brand name...

Same here, after I heard it was removed and saw the price I just went with a used kenwood that at least does AM for the airband.

I thought they stripped out the general coverage rx?

I run mine barefoot and I've always gotten good audio reports, and it's got one of the best receives of any rig I've ran mobile. On quiet nights I can often talk to stations that aren't even moving the S-meter.

I've found during a fairly continuous qso it gets warm after 15-20 minutes and tx starts cutting out around 30-40 minutes, haven't found the limit for low power. After cutting out on high, dropping to low power resulted in clean audio again for as long as I could hit the repeater.

+1 I don't think I could ever own a radio without one, that's why I went with the 5r. It get's great audio reports. Tx range is better then rx with the stock antenna though, but it was still good for about 20 miles in good terrain.

Congrats!

Congrats, welcome to never having "spare" cash again lol

I love Cantore sound bites, he's so ridiculously over the top.

If I lived that close to DC I'd want to be armed too lol

Damn I missed mr day after day again! I was busy on 10m, europe and south africa were coming in pretty good. I haven't had the (dis)pleasure of hearing "day after day after day, the same old thing" in a few years!

That's going to screw up the hybrids and electrics, wasn't GM using a123 packs in the volt?

Is it connected to the net? That Star*Board looks interesting as I have an ht and a mobile w/data jack right next to my computer lol

Yup stupid flare ruined the fun