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Most of the time it's either Wal Mart or Sams Club who can be found on 154.570 and 154.600.
The few stores I have enountered, don't use PL tones, thus a cheap Baofeng UV-5R will transmit on frequency with them. Great if you want to piss them off with a "I need a clean up on aisle 3 please" call.
It may come in handy if you need customer assistance, since I believe it's mostly the managers who use the radios.....although if they find that you are not an employee, they will bitch at you for "being on 'their' channel." Too bad they do not know that it's indeed a shared channel, courtesy of Uncle Charlie, and as long as you aren't interfering with them doing their job, there's zilch they can do about it.
The few stores I have enountered, don't use PL tones, thus a cheap Baofeng UV-5R will transmit on frequency with them. Great if you want to piss them off with a "I need a clean up on aisle 3 please" call.
It may come in handy if you need customer assistance, since I believe it's mostly the managers who use the radios.....although if they find that you are not an employee, they will bitch at you for "being on 'their' channel." Too bad they do not know that it's indeed a shared channel, courtesy of Uncle Charlie, and as long as you aren't interfering with them doing their job, there's zilch they can do about it.
Hey ,RAMBO, in Colombia, the Policia use freqs in the 150-174 mhz range. Many people have mobile units on their farms that operate on the local Policia frequency, so that they can contact the policia if there is an emergency. People, like you, who get on a freq just to , "piss people off," should just get the fuck away. It is absolutely IGNORANT to broadcast (on any frequency) just to, " Piss them off." When you broadcast just to agitate and make waves you are fucked up and need to grow up and get a life. Amateur and CB radio are there for the benefit of the general public. Not for idiots like you who only want to cause problems.
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is your antenna/station down? have not heard you on the DX lately,
I figure either that or your busy with work on the farm....i have my base antenna back up so i don't have to try and work you on the mobile like the last contact..
73's
is your antenna/station down? have not heard you on the DX lately,
I figure either that or your busy with work on the farm....i have my base antenna back up so i don't have to try and work you on the mobile like the last contact..
73's
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Yes, my antenna came down in a storm about a year ago. My wife and I have been so tied up getting our new business running, that I have not had the time to get my station back together. I have built a new antenna, and need to get a tower up to support it. I'll get to it as fast as I can, but business here is #1 right now. Thanks for asking. I look forward to talking to you again soon.
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Yes, my antenna came down in a storm about a year ago. My wife and I have been so tied up getting our new business running, that I have not had the time to get my station back together. I have built a new antenna, and need to get a tower up to support it. I'll get to it as fast as I can, but business here is #1 right now. Thanks for asking. I look forward to talking to you again soon.
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My base antenna was down all winter, J- so i understand..... hope you get those arabica's going and that everything falls in place....best of luck to you and yours down there and we look forward to hearing that good sounding station state side again...
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I've thought about getting into MURS. I've got a little 2 meter Baofeng UV-5RV2+ that will transmit and receive on the MURS frequencies. I've plugged the MURS channels into my scanner (outside dual bay VHF/UHF antenna) and I'll let it run through those as part of its normal operation and see if I hear anything.
Only thing is that the selection of MURS hardware seems pretty limited. There's a handful of handheld rigs, but for the most part it seems like if you want to operate on MURS you just plug the channels into your 2 meter rig.
Only thing is that the selection of MURS hardware seems pretty limited. There's a handful of handheld rigs, but for the most part it seems like if you want to operate on MURS you just plug the channels into your 2 meter rig.
I built a 4 element quad this time around. It's been completed for several months, but I had to build a tower. Got the materials together and it's almost finished. Then I need to build a concrete tower base. It's been slow going because of my time constraints, but the plan is to be back on the air in early spring. There are lots of local dudes who have offered to help, and I plan on taking them up on their offers when all the prep work is done. If things at the biz slow down after the holidays, maybe I can be up and running even sooner.
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I operate MURS everyday, MURS is nothing but VHF CB, gets out like 2meters does, might actually be a touch better. My 5 watt handheld gets out 8-10+ miles with a 5/8 wave full blown telescoping antenna on it.. There are base stations at the fringe of my receive about 35 miles away, I can hear them on band openings sometimes as well as other stations out of state (rare). There is "ok" activity in the southeastern michigan area. I would say there could be about 10-15 people on at a time in a given 100 mile radius. Your best bet is to use 2meter antenna and retune it as they are all going to give you a higher match. If you dont want to retune antenna, A good substitution that works is something like a Radioshack Discone. I have used both their top of the line discone and their 3 element discone and both work great. Also a Create Log periodic would work good too.
I have used a OPEK 2M/70cm (on the glass) cellular look-alike antenna (worked better than I thought it would!!) on my car for murs (easy tune for 1:1) and with a 5 watt HT in car I was able to talk back to a base about 7 miles back, I actually did better with my custom made telescoping HT antenna 5/8 (gets out like a bandit!!)when I installed a Icom 2200 mobile I was able to reach back about 15 miles or so and I was able to hit ALL the main repeaters in the metro area, some 40-50 miles area, no problem. I also have a Wilson 2 meter mag mount that I retuned for 151.820 and I was able to get back about 25-30 miles or so with the icom 2200 and wilson to a base station using a retuned Comet GP6.
I used to use MURS, it is good quiet channels. I think I use to talk in a 35 to 40 mile area. I used a channelized radio <4>, and had MURS on the first two channels, it was a YAESU, in fact I still have the radio, haven't used it for a number of years..
Might sell it one of these days.
DOCTOR/795
Might sell it one of these days.
DOCTOR/795
Ok kop, cue the zombie! I thought about starting a new thread, but this one has some good posts so why start from scratch when there's already a good base to build on?
So, who is running MURS now? I have some commercial mobile and handheld radios with 2M in one bank, MURS in another, marine VHF in a third, and (rx only) railroad and wx in other banks. I rarely hear anything on the first three channels, but occasionally hear businesses on 4 and 5.
We use it (also GMRS) for family communications. But I would like to see more folks using it like CB, especially on 4 and 5 which are wideband legacy channels.
I also wish Red Dot (151.625) was included in MURS.
I've heard from some quarters that truckers and others are using Red Dot, but I haven't heard any of that use around here.
So, who is running MURS now? I have some commercial mobile and handheld radios with 2M in one bank, MURS in another, marine VHF in a third, and (rx only) railroad and wx in other banks. I rarely hear anything on the first three channels, but occasionally hear businesses on 4 and 5.
We use it (also GMRS) for family communications. But I would like to see more folks using it like CB, especially on 4 and 5 which are wideband legacy channels.
I also wish Red Dot (151.625) was included in MURS.
I've heard from some quarters that truckers and others are using Red Dot, but I haven't heard any of that use around here.
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Maybe your small business will survive when Wal-Mart shows up. Or it’s equivalent. Here on the USA they destroy small businesses of every kind. Local wages drop and poverty increases. Taxes go up, not down.
We-Mart has its own intelligence headquarters designed and organized by the notorious Cofer Black (ex-CIA).
Good luck when that baleful eye turns your way. The black market is how the resourceful and shameless make their way in the employ of extra-legal operators. On that score your country has experience. Wal-Mart is just the other end of that rope.
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