Can anyone think of why sticking the below amplifier between the below transmitter and its antenna would not work ?

[brandon7861]

Another thing surprising to me is this: At least inside my house, the uv-5R set at 151.82mhz is accepting transmissions directly from the MURS-MAPS sensor. (That is kinda funny since the Dakota radio is $85 and the uv-5R $22.)
In my head I am wondering: "how do I measure the power-output by the MURS-base antenna.")

Then skip the amp all together... Being it works as intended with the uv5r as the receiver, I don't see any point in measuring the output power, other than for curiosity. To measure the wattage, you would need a VHF or better power meter capable of measuring that frequency (or a 50Ω load at the output and an RF probe to measure the voltage across it followed by a little math). HF power meters will not be accurate on VHF.

 

[brandon7861]

I remember somewhere online someone was looking for an alignment procedure for one of those DakotaMURS handheld receivers. Did you buy those two receivers from DakotaMurs or from someone else online?

 

[radiolearner]

Then skip the amp all together... Being it works as intended with the uv5r as the receiver, I don't see any point in measuring the output power, other than for curiosity. To measure the wattage, you would need a VHF or better power meter capable of measuring that frequency (or a 50Ω load at the output and an RF probe to measure the voltage across it followed by a little math). HF power meters will not be accurate on VHF.

That was just inside my house, not past all the dirt-mounds.

 

[radiolearner]

I remember somewhere online someone was looking for an alignment procedure for one of those DakotaMURS handheld receivers. Did you buy those two receivers from DakotaMurs or from someone else online?

I got them one of them from amazon and one directly from dakotaalert.com. I am presently using the latter one.