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I ran a Larsen NMO27B on an NMO trunk lip mount on my wife’s 2003 Monte Carlo SS for a number of years back in the early/mid 2000s. Had a Uniden Grant LT radio mounted in her vehicle, and it worked well. Our farthest contact from the base to her car was around 30 miles. She even used the radio...

This thread has been running for over a year so want to give an update on my Chameleon MPAS 2.0. Sometime in late summer 2020 in put my Chameleon MPAS 2.0 up as a “permanent” installation in my yard. I am using Chameleon’s ground stake Hybrid Mini transformer Mil EXT 2.0 lower whip section...

I had two 891s (one in the shack, one in the mobile). They are a good radio for the price (especially when they are under $600). However... I sold them because I did not care for the menu operation of the radio. I also don’t care for Yaesu’s convoluted firmware update method that they have...

This is what I would like to see on CB in the U.S. Since the UK already has the allocation for the narrow band FM freqs up around 27.6-27.9, why not allocate it in the U.S.? the equipment already exists, and the emission mode (NFM) is required on HF anyway, so come on FCC...get off yer arses...

I am seeing a lot of new GMRS radios hitting the market. I guess the manufacturers are anticipating a resurgence of interest in GMRS with the about-to-be adopted $35 fee ? Wouxun has introduced several new HTs and a mobile, and I even got an ad from Radioddity announcing the Baofeng UV-5X...

Bought a Lincoln II+ when they came out a few years ago (had an L-II v.3 before and liked it, wanted the 12m option of the +). Used it for a few years off and on, and sent it to Mikes Radio Repair for the audio mod that he was doing. Got it back and used it for a while, then moved on to another...

Hey, at least it’s not being done through the internet like the VOIP modes. You are using a real radio, an antenna, and actually sending a signal out. The VOIPers are actually asking for QSLs via QRZ for VOIP contacts ??? “CQ all ip addresses...CQ all ip addresses” And with the RF weak signal...

I turned those pots on my MXT-115. The lower left pot adjusts frequency. The upper one might be deviation, but I could not see or hear much difference. I don’t have a deviation meter so I can’t say for sure. No change to power output, so it’s not that. It could possibly be a deviation adjustment...

I am also very disappointed in the Midland MXT mobiles being narrowbanded. It would not be an issue if you are just using them to talk between other MXT radios, but I have a GMRS repeater and the narrowband audio from the MXT through a wideband repeater is considerably lower in volume. I will...

I have to agree that Yaesu...NEW Yaesu...rigs are mostly garbage when compared to the quality of their older radios. This deterioration of quality and customer relations, seems to coincide with Yaesu being separated from Vertex by Motorola. Now to be fair, the customer service reps in...

I don’t do facebook, but a ham friend sent me a screenshot from the FB POTA page, where someone posted that they blew up their PAX100 amplifier pretty quickly after inaugural use. I don’t know what finals that amp uses, but they state in their advertisement that “if needed, the final...

I ran an FT-847 for many years. Not my favorite rig for HF work, as many have noted the harsh white noise on receive, but it was ok enough. Just looking through old eQSL cards last night, I was reminded that I worked Russia and Australia on 10m from the east coast of the USA with the 847, so you...

I have owned my G90 for year and a half. While I don’t have that many hours of transmit time on it, I have monitored the bands quite a bit, and I am really happy with the radio. The screen is bright enough that I can see it easily in sunlight when I have operated outdoors. Since I do dial...

I forget about that feature (this radio has so many features), but I did try and it is still too loud for me in the shack. Not an issue with the amplified speaker with it’s volume control.

I broke down and bought a third Anytone AT-D578UV from Ed again. I had torn out my shack a few years ago, but just tossed up my old 11m ground plane for 10/11m radio (currently running a President Grant II in that position), a Tram 1477B dual band for the 578, and my Chameleon CHA MIL 2.0/ CHA...

Those Tagra antennas are currently produced. https://www.tagra.net/en/index I am running a Tagra 1/4 wave ground plane that I bought back in the early 1990’s, from a CB shop in the N.E. suburbs of Philadelphia. I have never seen any other Tagra antenna offered in the states, but this GP antenna...

Yep, the Scott Zimmerman board is an upgrade to the MMDVM ZUM board I used back in 2016, because the ZUM board needed to sit on an Arduino Due board (to do the digital conversion and controller) and also a Raspberry Pi to connect to the internet and set up the MMDVM board. Interestingly, he has...

short answer... two mobile radios (in this case, two Motorola GM300s), a duplexer, and a Scott Zimmerman STM-32 board http://www.repeater-builder.com/products/stm32-dvm.html There are settings/jumper adjustments, etc. you must do for the particular radios you use, and you have to tune/adjust...

I hope your replacement radios work well. I have been impressed with my 578s and run them in my vehicles. They are easy to deal with in the vehicle, with the programmable buttons on the face plate, and the useful functions on the microphone (I really like the dedicated zone buttons on the mic...

I’m guessing you purchased your radios through Bridgecom, since you said you opened a trouble ticket with them. Did your radio not come with the latest firmware and baseband versions??? I bought my two 578s through Ed @Anytone.us (aka Importcommunications and Wouxun.us). I have been dealing...