unit399, I think I remember coming across that thread surfing the web. You are in Chile or somewhere down there?
You could also program land-mobile equipment to use the GMRS and FRS frequencies, but if you poor like me you make do with what you got. I played around too with FRS/GMRS by replacing the duck with a bnc connector. You be suprised how much more power it put out with a higher gain antenna than the 1/8th wave piece of crap from which it came with. I still do not think it is worth the trouble, all the cutting, fitting, soldering and afro-engineering to have a bnc connector that works and looks half decent. You buy a radio that puts out 1 watt ERP, and end up with a radio that puts out 1.5 watts (or a radio thats ruined). I saw some 16channel UHF radios go on ebay for $50 a pair, 4 watts and PC programmable. You might as well bite the bullet as unit says, and get a real radio.
as the season winds down, we as a group have plenty of bullets left over to bite :blushing: how big are the uhf units you mention, and does the uhf work in the pines??? as i said before the group favors giving the marine vhf another try as the frs/gmrs deal was a complete flop......what i myself do not understand,is why the wireless people spend so much developing phones that do or will do everything,but have seemed to stopped in increasing coverage area...what good are phones that do all that stuff if you can not get a signal ...