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Washington crowd sparse? Check out the Greater Seattle Area Virtual Campfire and the Tri-Cities clubhouse. Also several monthly meetups a crossed the state. There is a large OB presence all a crossed the state.

In May, most of the WABDR is still going to be snow locked. We had a large group run it from start to end at the end of June 2020 and not all of them were able to finish due to snow and mud. IIRC section 2 took them 2 days with the first day only able to make about 4 miles. You can read all...

July 2021

Fixed it

Yes… you are right… but he also mentioned Ham which I assume is 2m. So needs a dual band which generally is about 38” long for a 1/2 wave on 2m, with a trap at 12”

No call letters means your license isn’t processed yet. It takes 1-7 business days to get it. I am an online VE for amateur radio licensing. We aren’t seeing any call signs come back for tests we administer on Friday Nights, weekends, or federal holidays, they are always available first thing...

First a 1/4 wave CB antenna is 102” a 1/2 wave GMRS antenna is apx 14”. So the CB antenna won’t work for GMRS (or vice versa). GMRS, Amateur Radio, and CB all use the same coax, so nothing special needed there. You could get a NMO antenna mount to run several different antennas from one...

FCC stopped sending mail for licenses in July of 2022 (or there abouts) @MOAK, if you have a call sign you are good to transmit. And as others have said, you probably won’t get into any trouble over the weekend…. As long as you have your call sign. I wouldn’t stress over it to much since...

He’s not wanting AM/FM radio via satellite… he wants a Navigation System built into the head unit that doesn’t rely on cell towers. Sirus/XM sat radio is not a nav system.

Joying makes an android based head unit that has an external SAT GPS Antenna. However I don’t know if it’s AM or not. https://www.joyingauto.com/new-released-screen-10-1-android-car-music-media-supports-4g-module.html

Yes and no… the instruction manual for the radio tells how to manually switch from RX only to both RX/TX in the settings in VFO mode.

I too don’t do any programming without PC interface. There is a new Bluetooth Dongle you can add to the Baofeng Radios and program with an app from your smart device. I have not tried it yet, it the reviews look promising. TIDRADIO Ham Radio Wireless Programmer Adapter Phone APP Programming...

Hello @Rroamer Welcome to Overland Bound. I am the Northwest Director. @jcgraves3 is your closest member representative. There is a monthly meetup in PDX, as well as a few other events that you might be interested in. https://www.overlandbound.com/event/?region=42 To help navigate through...

Hello , Welcome to Overland Bound. I am the Northwest Director. @ is your closest member representative. To help navigate through the forums, here are some links that can be filtered by “Region” prefix. We are in the Overland Bound North America US Northwest Region (US Northwest for short)...

I need to do some research on this, because it is part certified for GMRS, BUT it still has a VFO (GMRS radios have to be channelized and can’t transmit out of frequency for the given Chanel), the UV5G can transmit on the VHF frequencies with or without the use of chirp. However, I did find it...

Yes it is on the road map

The thread title is “Baofeng GMRS Radio” Baofeng only makes one FCC compliment GMRS radio, the UV9G. Even though the rest are able to transmit and receive GMRS, they aren’t actually type certified for GMRS use, and their RF emissions are outside the allotted emissions for GMRS use. So yes this...

He probably is… I’m just trying to keep this thread on track to the OP’s questions regarding the new GMRS UV9G radio.

The UV9G just came out at the end of November 2022, how could you be using it for several years?

No, the bumper mounts ar different between. 09 and 10