Love that radio

Hilarious video. The climax being when the TalkPod got pulled out.😂 Man, your wife has some patience; she’s a keeper!

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💯 Love this stuff ! Man you got the old school equipment ! Wish I could run across a few old radio comms.

What is a stringer

Mans showing his camping spot

At least it didn’t break the center pin on the antenna connector on the board.

Weird seeing bikes like Harley's on the dirt section. I was so happy when I heard they opened up the AT finally! We had a camping trip last year at Roosevelt Lake and we had to take the long way round because this was closed. I'll have to check it out in my 4wd Canyon when it gets a little cooler out. Not a big fan of trips like that when it's hot out.

What is your job

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Love it keep up great work

I worked for Nextel in 2000 and it was the Best years of mobile phones at that time, loved the instant communication with the push to talk

When mother nature isn't trying to kick us sometimes we lend her a boot........ Please do your best to stay awake and arrive safe. 🙏

? How do you turn on the FM radio

Can i use direct talk mode without sim card ?

Rude woman

Interesting the stuff that will be catched on a scanner.

I used to work at Scary Farm. Nice!

Зачем такие края не понятно ,лишний материал и смотриться так себе.

Midland more like MIDland

I see some ER10s I think 📻

I am on head phones and constantly the sound is changing...Cheers 73 de sv7gbi operator Konstantinos

keep up the great videos

Just found your channel thanks to the recommendeds. I used to be big into the hobby about 30 years ago as a teenager. I owned a base Uniden Bearcat 350CA for my first radio. That was back when cell phones ran essentially through baby monitor frequencies under 40 Mghz. I got some good 90s neighborhood gossip that way. LOL. It was legal in my state at the time. The only active mischief I got into once was using an old FRS/MRN band to mess with a freighter on vacation off Lake Huron once. Stopped doing that. I doubt he was anything important being on the FRS frequencies. Now, I would never interrupt traffic at stores etc. I just listen to ham bands(2 meters) mostly these days. Currently, I own a lot of shortwave radios along with my Yaesu HT. The closest I own to what you have is the Radio Shack Pro HT. Bought it like 10 years ago used for $25 at a garage sale. I got priced out of the hobby. When you said Fashion Square Mall, there is the Saginaw Fashion Square Mall here in the Midwest. And yeah, the higher the squelch, the more digital birdies you hear. I will definitely sub by the way. I was on the Arizona pilot for my old job which involved contacting businesses by phone throughout the state from Flagstaff to Yuma. Cool to see some of this scenery with my own eyes.

These radios are actually 400-470MHz, not 900MHz. What you are receiving is a spurious emission on 900MHz which isn't good. Means it's transmitting dirty.

Im sorrry do you use zillo.*

Is there a link to see the specs of these radios? I own retevis rt10 on 900 mhz so I wanna to check the differences. 73 de sv7gbi operator Konstantinos

Meaning what's your point

This is not a police radio

Knott's? That's by my house.

I have a couple of them. I have one I recently bought off eBay for a good price however seller had said can't find flash code I don't think he tried .I don't know if you know anything about that. Or how to access the flash code out of the radio . It works there's some channels already programmed in it . I have no idea how to do this kind of stuff I just like collecting them😊. I mean I would like to have some channels in it. To use it like a scanner these radios have great sound quality

what you should have done was do it by block till you could not hear the other person than and only then game over my radio will run out at 20 miles on a repeater tower group but that requires a F C C licensee which I have

sorry it won't work pass the driveway your out of range

You solo or working with a stringer company?

Hi, I just wanted to comment. For being outside I would say it would between GMRS because on GMRS, when you key up you would be transmitting 5 watts. On Murs on vhf murs is limited to 2 watts but the signal goes further. On FRS it's about a half watt

I bought two of these radios almost one month ago, and for such a low price you really do get a lot of features. The breath feature is helpful because the top lights blink to let you know the radio is still on once the screen goes black. Mic gain, MDC roger beep, and DTMF calling/signalling are all nice options as well. So far the battery life seems to be very good. One thing I noticed was if you use a ptt-id, it doesn't give you an option of how much of a delay you want before it transmits. Therefore you are stuck with about a 1.5 second delay which also mutes the mic until it's sent. I hope a future firmware update can fix this. As far as the CPS which is actually very good, once downloaded there is also the firmware upgrade included. Inside that folder is a read me file. You absolutely must read it and follow it step by step or it may cause your radio to stop working. There is a debate as to whether or not to hold down the ptt button during the entire update. Well, I held it the whole time and it worked for me. The newest firmware version 240702 as of 8-13-24, was supposed to fix the squelch tail problem, but what I found helpful was an option of adjusting screen brightness. That's good for saving battery but it's also easier on your eyes at night. I hope this helps anyone who reads it, and if I find any other useful info I will add it. Love your channel and your radios 👍

Thanks for the video. Neat little card like radios. Some businesses do have licenses on GMRS channels. They are reminants of the color dot system for businesses. Before you could synthesize an entire band-width's worth of channels, you had to buy a crystal for each channel of each radio. These radios often had single digit channel counts, and the channels were defined by dot colors like, "blue dot" & "red dot" Some of these in VHF became MURS, while the UHF versions became GMRS. Technically, no one owns the air. As GMRS license holders, we are required to share. However, if they have a business license on a frequency you wan to use, you should be able to look up their license. If they are claiming to have a license, they should be announcing their call sign when challenged. GMRS still has power & antenna advantages over FRS on their shared channels. The blending of GMRS & FRS on side channels is great. Kids get FRS, & GMRS for the adults. Bubble pack FRS can come in handy when someone in the group has no GMRS radio. We should petition the FCC for more channels, but also embrace the cross connectivity of FRS & GMRS. That technically does allow for more overall channels. Cheers!! & 69s!!

If users are running tone squelch you will be calling until you are blue in the face. You need to have a second location with all the radios to run actual test. We need to promote users leaving tone squelch off to provide maximum availability ofproviding help in emergency.

I miss my nextels.

Can I suggest you skip showing content such as FRS on a gmrs or ham radio you snitching on yourself...

From what I've seen the last few years you have the jeepers and their CB radios a few cary frs/gmrs . The side by sides run the rugged radios or equivalent vhf business band "race radios " . then there are a few of the have ham license that take advantage of higher power and repeaters when they can hit them .BTW You need to have a Gmrs license and call sign to access there repeaters also the right pl tone and offset programed into you radio or nobody is going to hear you let alone respond . cheers

I remember having a flashing multi colored antenna, it would flash whenever I PTT😂

MURS is VHF 151-154 MHZ max power 2 watts, FRS and GMRS share the same frequencies 462MHZ, but differ in power wattage from 2-5/50 watts respectively depending on license. CB is HF-27MHZ at legal 4 watts, requires no license, but you will hear a lot of trucker swearing. MURS, FRS, GMRS all use FM modulation, just like listening to music on the FM radio. CB uses AM, a different type of modulation system that sounds different than FM. Typically, the lower the transmitting frequency, the further it travels. In the application of off-roading, we don't need our signal to travel a hundred miles. so UHF-FRS-GMRS radios are perfect for this application. There are more technical aspects of the differences between AM, FM, but I won't discuss them here.

I remember having a flashing multi colored antenna 😂

If your off-roading implies being close to your car all the time then stay away from walkies, or at least connect them to a decent mobile antenna. That will make a world of difference. Also the way you approach range varies with wavelength. UHF/VHF (a.k.a. FRS/GMRS and MURS respectively), have no reflectivity on the atmosphere (barely) so line of sight will dictate your range. CB is 11m which is HF and can benefit from skip, thus extending your range by reflecting on charged atmospheric layers, but to get real good results you'll have to walk the path of going a bit outside of the law and emit with a 100W booster. For GMR you can stick to the legal transmit power, line of sight works on UHF even with one watt, you'll need the extra power (not so much though, within GMR legal limits does it) to penetrate trees and small objects.

Hey, AZ born and raised here! A friend from work got me into off roading. He used to do long haul trucking so he's used to CB. When I got my truck, I went to a guy local to the east valley, CB Exchange, and had a Uniden PRO505 XL CB with a Wilson 1000 installed. Most of my friends have a CB (cab mounted or handheld) so I've stuck with that. It's worked really well for our adventures, although it does seem to pick up signals from my ABS from time to time, and the huge whip can be annoying some times with low trees, but its fun to use on and off road. I've thought about getting one of those Baofang radios but no one I know uses those frequencies so it's not worth it right now. You'll usually have a bit of traffic on CB out there around Butcher Jones/Four Peaks/Sycamore Creek and the weekends when everyone's out there. Especially when it's cooler out. It's been too hot lately for people to be out there messing around.

If you wanna hear anything on that CB walkie talkie more than an 1/8th of a mile, you gotta connect a mag mount to the BNC connector. I still carry my old Maxon 27LP with me every once in a while on road trips just to see who's on, but TBH, with the rubber duckie in the cabin, I find I pickup more engine noise coming thru than actual radio transmissions. That said, CB is still good for on-road (listening to truckers on ch. 19), but for off-road, everyone's gone to GMRS. The sad part is, most ppl went to GMRS to talk amongst their own group (the ppl in their caravan), unlike the old days of CB where you talk to random ppl with a shared interest in radio.

I think many people are going with GMRS these days because for $35 you can get a license which covers you and your family for 10 years without taking a test. If you've seen the Notarubicon channel, Randy is in love with GMRS and is a big off road lover himself. Ever since the license fee reduction, boost in wattage and use of repeaters, it seems to be the best choice. FRS is too low powered and CB though still alive, is kind of messy with people illegally amping up and basically talking trash while stepping on others. It's still fun when listening to truckers, but compared to when I was born to now, it's just not what it was. Nice effects in your video.The music and different camera angles while filming your journey adds to the fun of the video. Keep them coming 👍.

Once again, thank you for your very informative videos. Keep them coming 👍.