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Well my family is screwed then. They're stuck with me!

As the favorite question in this forum goes. Today I installed 50 amp generator inlet box and interlock kit to my panel and verify I say unto you with my two dual fuel parallel kit if needed 4600 watt each generators I shall have power throughout all of my lands (sans 220 because these...

I went a little overboard..... wife is viewing with alarm the growing pile of stuff both already in hand and arriving soon... (the mobile will be the base radio) all hail the wifely proclamation we have all heard...... "you do not use half the stuff you already have....." it still amazes me they...

I'm assuming all the marketing hokery pokery means some noise floor benefits we will see.

Apparently this is a new GMRS model. Ordered to see what's what. C2 walkie talkies brings users an unparalleled sound quality experience, built-in AI noise reduction chip, equipped with 10-level noise reduction, and also designed 9-level squelch function and microphone gain to reduce noise...

I have to give them credit on the battery life on the tiny H3s. I gave up nearly 2 days in they hadn't died on standby still had one solid bar left but put em back on charger. I haven't used them yet in RL conditions and may not theyre really small for my big mitts. Perfect for the wife. I may...

Ok. Gotcha. Yes good point. I AM hoping to make 20 miles to my mother's place (once I see what works for me and duplicate at her house) so more on the horizon would be better I can just save the ghost type antenna for the truck.

Ah yes I see. I am completely open to all manner of suggestions. So the mobile antenna I posted plus this groundplane kit @ near as makes no difference to 20 feet up clear of roof and obstructions would perform adequately then in your opinion?

Something like this on a sidearm you mean?

I hadnt thought of that. That is a very fine idea. I am not dead set on anything this is all new to me this GMRS business. Totally open to all ideas. I'd have to cut a new mast piece to accommodate it as due to having snapped a chinesium rotor once already I have it almost resting on the rotor...

Update* so far I am impressed with the radio itself. Battery not so much I think I was sold a defective one as one of the TD3 batteries starts dying the instant it's off the charger. Goes to 2 of 3 bars and I've not even keyed up. This is no good. I may have to send back the two pack to Amazon...

In my case it's a VQUAD so the original plan had been to mount this little stubby thing to the beam boom itself but given the delta loop design versus the traditional beam Im not sure if thats possible.... however I suppose I could mount it on the mast just below the beam if that would make a...

Oops. This is a very good point. My genius plan was perhaps not so stellar. Now back to looking at actual base antennas with more poles. My wife will never let me use mine again if this antenna farm keeps sprouting. Fortunantly there are worse addictions than radio.

Gents a question. If I was to mount this on the boom of my VQUAD beam.... Would the antenna survive? I mean I understand one would not have the GMRS radio on while dumping 1KW 10m radio waves through the beam but in that scenario would the little GMRS antenna be unhurt when I was to use it...

I've just gotten two of them today. We will see how they get on, so far they are more user intuitive than my UV-5G Plus GMRS and easier to use abiet mechanically more difficult with my giant sausage fingers.

This has unfortunantly happened. Now present in the radio-electronic-ry mess are all the previous plus a bearcat bc355n for the nearby airport, a bearcat sds100 for everything else, incoming pair of Baofeng k5 pluses, and now I'm eyeing GMRS beam antenna and a superscanner antenna. And wife is...

Have no idea what I'm doing but I also got myself a GMRS license and a cheap set of Baofeng K5 Plus radios on the way. Sadly noted after the fact I have no repeaters in our area so short of overpowered walkie talkies I'm not sure why I did it. Maybe I'll get lucky and hear someone as you did...

Just for giggles - enjoying this thread