I'm thinking about buying my first handheld and am more than likely going to purchase this one along with a second battery. But I was wondering about the TX and RX battery life. I am also new to Amature radio. So if you have any other radio suggestions I would be happy to hear them.
one transmitting at 2.5W? My Uniden MHS050 marine VHF cannot be heard by coastguard transmitting at 2.5W at a distance of about 15km while my CobraHH475 is heard clearly (4bar) transmitting at 1W (low) from the same spot. Both being hand held in a Kayak. How can that happen? Uniden say the VHF...
I have a Motorola Radius GP300 walkie talkie two way radio, model No. P94YPC09C2AA serial No. 174IYLH373. How do I tell whether this is UHF or VHF?
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At a yard sale I found a lot of 8 Motorola Radius GM-300 CB radios, and one Motorola Max Trac CB radio. I also found a power supply rated at 13.8 volts and 12A continuous, 15A @50% duty cycle. I used this power supply to test all the radios, and all the GM300s were dead. However, the Max Trac...
Has anyone used Motorola Maxtrac 300 vhf for a repeater and used Echolink as your controller? Sounds like the Audio is over driven and I have all the soundcard sliders as low as possible. Do you think something in the radios need to be de-tuned? Thanks de KB7PDF ~Mitch,
for them to buy? I thinking about buying a tracking device for my car, but ive been told GPS trackers can be jammed, so can a VHF tracker be jammed, if so is the equipment easy to get hold of and cheap for the criminal?
lol thanks funny i was on that site today, i guess ive answered my own...
I have this http://www.amazon.com/RCA-ANT1250-Amplified-indoor-Antenna/dp/B000063SNE plugged in on the main floor and it picks up the digital channels fairly well. I wanted an even better picture so I installed a new rooftop antenna...
My rowing team is looking to purchase marine radios for our coaches. Our coaches drive alongside our rowing shells in small rowboats with motors, and want handheld VHF marine radios so that they can communicate with each other and other boats during our practices.
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but i wanna program more freq in it!! Do you need special software to do this? And where can i get this software to program my radio? This is my first time with this radio so please go easy on me with the computer lingo!! :-)
I have the converter box but I lost 2 channels. Now the infomercial says you need a vhf antenna for channels 2-12 and a uhf for channels 13 and higher if you are not getting them. So do I need a UHF antenna? If I get one will I still have the lower channels. Or do I need the combo vhf-uhf...
...a new radio to cover both u? i have a gp340 and wud like to use it as a gp340 vhf and uhf radio it is now a uhf one wud like to use vhf at same time ? thanks ted
I was going to buy 2 Motorola VHF Saber Radios, Model number: H43SAG7139_N
it's a 6-WATT with 24 Channels (Saber 1E) with the # 148.000 to 172.000 MHz Bandsplit, I was wondering if I could
1. Have it programmed for the Maritime Emergency Frequency (156.800 MHz on FM)
2 Can they work be...