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Where this service shines is car-to-car like on vacation trips or dropping off a car some place. May be worthwhile to put a small antenna on a car and use it with your hand held but a lot depends on your geography and topology. There's a few repeaters in my area but not a lot of traffic...

I'd skip the discone because I don't use one and have had great enjoyment with my RTL-SDR's. Anything outside and does the job is great for me. Of course maybe I'm missing some stuff. If I could guess what I'm missing, I could just fashion an antenna for that band and not have an antenna that...

I DON'T RECOMMEND DOING THIS WITHOUT SOME MICRO SOLDER TOOLS ...anyhow we know how that goes... I had it with the 7300 losing it's clock time and using the dumb program to reset it provided from ICOM who created the stupid clock battery design in the first place. I found several modifications...

Anybody know any programming pinouts, methods, etc for motorola RMV2080 (RMU2080) type radios? 45$ seems a bit steep and I've got a box full other cables.

Did you make your own center support / insulator thing? What's the element lengths? I've wanted to make one too. I can talk to South America with my vertical but the guy 3 miles away sounds like crap.

How about summing this up so I don't say something stupid. Does this factor in the base coil and tuning nut or the mast? Does it show the 99 working the same with more bandwidth without the extra planes?

Here's the pictures including one of me getting my first rf burn after decades in electronics. The blue square shows where the speaker wire wasn't soldered very well at the factory. The "clickey"s on the board are held down with adhesive sheets that can be peeled back with some careful effort...

I read somewhere that zip tying 9 feet of coax down the Antron 99 was the better bang for the buck compared to radials. Can't find the reference just now it's something to do with how it's loaded at the base??

I fixed it. I worked on the black plastic PPT button a bit, and I removed the "clickey" which is held down with adhesive tape, cleaned with alcohol, and scratched it up, button and board, to make better contact. The speaker wire was just hanging on by one strand of stranded steel wire, so I...

Any experiencing with less than excellent push-to-talk button on the UV-5R ? Got one that feels mushy and result in having to press it very hard. Sometime the display lights up but it doesn't transmit. I think there's a clickey button involved. Maybe the switch itself cracked to the board or...

Gave the replacement radio from R&L a good workout last night and it performed great. Fan kicked up just like it's supposed to.

Fan has never operated. Talked to R&L electronics and they just said it was less than 90 days so just bring it back and they'll give me another. Nice guys. Have had only good experiences with them. Next time I try it, I'll probably require a tone on the 2 meter input side (which my friends...

Does the RF Gain knob do anything at all in various modes?

That's almost as good as getting people to vote via text rather than waiting in line.

Thought I found an issue, but the fan wire is just smashed a little bit. I powered it with a 9volt battery and it spins okay.

I estimate it was transmitting at 5 watts for about 1 to 2 minutes, then at 25 watts for about a minute or less before it powered down. After it sat powered off for about 2 or 3 minutes, it would power back up, but I don't recall hearing the fan running even though the thing felt really warm...

Tried cross band repeat on my tri band last night on a local simplex chat. (was using my HT from the backyard) Worked great for about a 1 minute, had good signal reports, then locked up. The radio had powered itself down, and was really hot. This unit rarely gets more than warm on a simplex...

My tri band comet 333 gets me better 2m signal than my old Cushcraft with the ring. The comet is 5/8 or something the Cushcraft wasn't. With a multi band you have 440 or 220 too, if you want, and you can have the option of dual cross band repeat on 440. Just something to consider.

IT'S OFFICIALLY A MESS !!! More ways exist to not work than I ever dreamed of. Thanks to folks for bringing up good information. Dropping the mesh thing. Looks like requiring a tone or code on the 440 input of any cross banded radio would be a good practice.

(Interesting. I'm going to focus on off the shelf cross band mobiles with single multi band antennas.) How about this... 3 cross band base stations 144/440 all require tone or code on their 440 input. Now when multiple base stations pickup input on 440 and rebroadcast it on 144 at the same...