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The 2900 doesnt receive or transmit up in the GMRS range (400mhz range).Morgan, is your radio GMRS compatible? A lot of the guys in Vermont use these units and are having really good luck with them:
Midland MicroMobile® MXT400
The little Chinacom Baofengs will TX/RX on 2M, 70cm, GMRS, and FRS. It's not legal to use them for GMRS and FRS according to FCC guidelines.Morgan, do you know of a unit that does both GMRS and Ham? I would like to put one radio that does it all into the truck!
After the fiasco with the handheld Hams in Utah, I'm committed to making sure we have the right gear.
The club radios worked really well, but showed their limitation on the open road at longer ranges.
Slacker! You can have all the right gear but if you don't know how to use it you will be sol like we were at fall crawl when we realized the capital city guys and I had different chirp files.Sorry, I am admittedly ignorant when it comes to this stuff and would rather someone just tell me exactly what to buy/do!
I know lots of folks like the Yaesu units, but I'm a Kenwood fan. The Yaesu mic always felt like a little toy in my hand, but that's just personal preference. All of the entry level 2M only mobile units are within a few dollars of each other. They will not do FRS/GMRS. The dual band units (2M and 440cm) can do FRS/GMRS, but some are RX only depending on the radio. Again, FCC regulations.Will one antenna transmit and receive over all of those frequencies?
Is there a nicer permanent mount unit that will better connect to an antenna?
Sorry, I am admittedly ignorant when it comes to this stuff and would rather someone just tell me exactly what to buy/do!
My name is Andy and I'm a slacker too. Since we at keystone have a bunch of the walkie talkies is there a channel they can be operated on that will match a ham frequency?
Also dose anyone feel that a unified set of frequency's used by Gotham, Keystone, and Cap City would be worth while to create a single Chirp file for? I don't see a problem given the distance our clubs are separated by running the same frequency's. I just was thinking it could simplify things when we get together.
I spent a decent amount of time making sure that the CMCC band plan freqs were not interfering with any local repeaters, so I know that set is clean. If you want to use it, then by all means do so.My name is Andy and I'm a slacker too. Since we at keystone have a bunch of the walkie talkies is there a channel they can be operated on that will match a ham frequency?
Also dose anyone feel that a unified set of frequency's used by Gotham, Keystone, and Cap City would be worth while to create a single Chirp file for? I don't see a problem given the distance our clubs are separated by running the same frequency's. I just was thinking it could simplify things when we get together.
By "walkie talkie" I assume you mean GMRS. If so, folks will need a dual band ham radio to get up into those frequencies. Not everyone has one of those due to the cost.Since we at keystone have a bunch of the walkie talkies is there a channel they can be operated on that will match a ham frequency?