The National GMRS Net saw a total of 43 round-table participants and a cumulative total of 108 check-ins this evening for all nets system-wide. Net control for the evening was David, WQVS960 with the Tucson GMRS Association.
The topic of the evening: Mobile Setups – what are you doing and tips for installing them
For more information on the net; please visit https://mygmrs.com/nets
The audio recording can be listened to here:
Note that silences between transmissions have been removed so it is not a time-accurate recording, but more efficient to listen to.
Attendees:
| Call | Name | Location | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRBQ341 | Larry | AL | |
| WQVS960 | David | AZ | |
| WRCU527 | Darren | AZ | Welcome back 960 and happy father’s day. Install Yaesu FTM300 – take the time to run the wire right. Get a good antenna |
| WRCZ558 | Aaron | AZ | |
| WREZ948 | Brian | AZ | |
| WRFS866/1 | Ron | AZ | |
| WRFU591 | Russell | AZ | No traffic |
| WRFS906 | Emil | CA | |
| WREY904 | Eduardo | CT | |
| WRDW791 | Steve | FL | |
| WRCM330 | Bob | IL | |
| WRDU235 | Rob | IL | |
| WRFL449 | Doug | IL | Have Kenwood TK880 for mobile radio, mobile right now! Put on high gain antenna. |
| WRFQ535 | Ferdi | IL | Happy father’s day to all! Kenwood TMD710G Commet SSV10 antenna in car. Mobile right now, just got done wiring it up today. Getting the wires in is the hard part! |
| WRFR912 | Justin | IL | Happy father’s day. Don’t have a whole lot – don’t have a lot of experience, only done one mobile radio. Icom 6061D thanks to WREY478 – otherwise I’d have nothing. Mobile mag mount. Works well, haven’t changed much yet. Make sure you don’t pinch coax in door. Don’t coil up coax to form a choke, zig zag it out. |
| WQVG601 | Mike | IN | |
| WQYW692 | Kevin | IN | GMRS50X1, usually using mag mount, trying field antenna tonight. |
| WRDE566 | Tim | IN | |
| WRFC721 | Stephen | IN | Two midland, MXT400 40 watts w/ 5db gain midland antenna. Also have MXT275 15 watts w/ mag mount on 5 db gain antenna |
| WRHT390 | George | MN | |
| WREB947 | Bob | NC | |
| WRFI390 | Chris | NC | |
| WRFI390 | Chris | NC | Check callsign, not using mobile, using handheld baofeng DM1701 DMR and analog radio. 3000 channels. Nagoya NA-771 dual band antenna |
| WREM430 | Nick | NJ | Midland MXT400 as base at home. Have portable Kenwood HT. |
| WQJI810 | Russell | NM | Using Icom FT21, 128 channel commercial radio at decent price. Like them, but gain hurts in high topography differences |
| WQUR407 | Steve | NM | Thomas, OK – introducing kids to GMRS. Mobile rig is a FTM350 Yaesu, working on booster for handheld in BMW. Thinking about doing something with the radio in the RV. |
| WRAN487 | Mike | NM | 6-7 different radio in mobile, like Kenwood. TK840, Three TK880H for commercial and GMRS, and TK705D for VHF ham, and FT90r Yaesu dual bander. Ran two strips – one ground and hot, where to hang all the mics! Is there a way to switch mics? |
| WRBM861 | Rob | NM | |
| WREE380 | Brett | NM | Bring plenty of DC power, pick one with enough juice |
| WRFN434 | Dominic | NM | Running midland, MXT275 in pickup – all-in-mic w/ 3db gain antenna and works well. Other radio is MXT115 – 15 watts radio with 6db gain antenna, splurged a bit in a Hardened Power Systems Operator 115 ammo can setup. |
| WRCS984 | Andrew | OK | |
| WRCW870 | Lee | OK | Anytone AT578 dual band radio into Comet 2X4SR NMO antenna, using LMR240 cable |
| WRCW870 | Lee | OK | |
| WRDH378 | Kurt | OK | Run two midland MXT400 in Dodge Durango and base station, added solar panel and solar battery and charger for radios run off grid |
| WRCV263 | Jonathan | OR | |
| WREZ914 | Mark | TX | Still planning mobile setup, BTECH GMRS50X1 with mag mount |
| WRFW268 | Matthew | TX | No traffic |
| WRFW268 | Matthew | TX | |
| WREN713 | Rod | WI | |
| WRFM694 | Robert | WI | |
| WRFQ737 | Tom | WI | |
| WRFT779 | Mike | WI | |
| WRFT779 | Mike | WI |