CB (11 meter) is the original "social media" ! I use CB radios and 2 meter radios. • My favorite CB radio is the Cobra 148GTL made in the Philippines. • My favorite 2 meter radio is the Yaesu FT-60R made in Japan. The Cobra 148GTL radio CB and UNIDEN Grant XL radio CB currently outperforms most of the newer CB radios manufactured in the 21st century.

Very similar to what the Marines call "Re-Trans" setup. But it used 2 separate antennas. One for transmit and the other for receive. Would that be possible for 2 KG-1000 radios in repeater mode? Use 2 antennas instead of a duplexer?

Thank you Dave! Very good information, addressed my issue precisely. Jeff in Colorado

I have a question. I'm currently using the TYT MD UV 380 as running the open GD77 firmware. My question is, with the 390 plus can I program the radio from the front.? I mean right out of the box?

What happens when you write a AES key to a non-plus uv390 ? I've seen Ukrainians load AES key in non-plus version.

The repeater owner might own the repeater, but no one owns the frequencies!

I live in Franklin Wisconsin do they have repeaters for grms?

My hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my Grms license my friend

The ham license is hard grms is easy to get the grms license my friend

Ham Radios are very expensive than grms not expensive my friend

People like the Channels being preset. Some UHF radios will have Channel's preprogrammed per nation or you can edit them, but it's too much "data" & tinkering, for many. They just want channel number, and U/L SB. It would be nice if China brought out a super cheap CB handheld with AM/FM and SSB. They'd probably need a custom chipset to bring this about. Then you could see resurgence with young people to chat in the locality.

Thank you for the superb video! Very well explained.

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I really miss the days of CB. even in the 90s it was great. I could yell our an audio at anytime of day and get a response from people I talk with. I am going to put up my Imax 2k at home and set up my cb again. It was so much fun and I never liked ham. Just need to find people around you and what channel the local people play on

Believe me from experience trying to build this repeater You're way better off buying a good commercial repeater and it made in America duplexer

Cq cq cq smoky is hidin' behind a tree on route 66!

How do you pair the Bluetooth mic

Chirp?

I just received mine, and am having trouble trying to program frequencies. The manual isn't that easy to follow.

Nice video. Couple things I would like an answer to: 1) does it matter which TX/RX is tuned to TX or RX? I see them marked as HIGH and LOW. 2) this may be part of question 1, but the internal coils are different. Why? if Question 1 Matters what happens if you tune them backwards? Which I can see being done easily because my radio TX Freq. and the repeater TX freq. are not the Same.

How do I get the frequencies?

I will not be getting a jerry. I have 3 randy am/fm

President really really let me down . Very disappointed. I was hoping to see the jerry come out and be ssb model. I do not care about the price.

Went to website to buy one, out of stock.

As a ham radio operator who got his start on CB I just want to remind everyone that 11 meters was handed over by the ham radio community to be used by others, (citizens) who don't care to get into the ham radio hobby. 11 meters should always be open for use and actually I would love to see all the boot leggers get tired of the band and leave. Too many criminals out there using CB for all kinds of illegal activities. And yes. I call them criminals. They are breaking the law. They should be arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced. And remember, when the FCC does have the time to prosecute someone, the fines are often reaching $10k and more. Some even get jail time. Yep I'd love to see all the bad people leave CB.

Midland is way behind the curve with this radio. With a non-removable antenna, 2.5 W is a joke. Good luck to you (not you, but in general) trying to hit a repeater from a few miles away. If you want simple, I'd rather spend extra $10 and get a pair of KG-805Gs. What a sweet little radio the 805 is!

I ordered this radio and so far very happy with its performance. I ordered a mic/speaker for it on Amazon because I could not find one on your business page. I downloaded and installed the programming to my win10 desktop, and bought a USB C cable. I can't get the V2 software to communicate with the radio. Keep getting COM port failure. The default is COM1. I tried up to com six to no avail. Does anyone have an idea what I may try next? Thanks & Cheers from Louisiana.

Blame Mark Sherman aka mud duck hard drive 163 along with cornbread 226 walkie talkie jockey 21 in wild West old man in the garage and the rest of the clowns on19.

I've been using two-way radios since the early 1990s.I think General Electric or Ericsons used the term, Channel Guard referring to CTCSS and DTCSS

I've had a CB radio in my vehicles for at least 20 years. I just replaced it with a GMRS. After all those years I seldom hear any traffic on 19 and it's on all the time I'm in my vehicle. If I do a scan of all the channels I only hear someone yelling "Ye Haw" or some other useless information. Even when on the interstate and driving by a Pilot or Flying J I don't hear much traffic on the CB. Not sure that GMRS is much better but I do hear more useful conversation on it. I also run a ham mobile but there's no road traffic on the ham.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the point of these "premier" videos? I already heard the podcast, so it's not a live stream. It's like saying "here's a video that's finished and uploaded, we'll add it to your feed, but you don't get to watch it until we say so!"

I need the BGM that was used in this video

How to program frequency manually ?

The radios available is not the issue. Fire up the ole Browning Eagle and see how many transmissions you get per hour. Flip around the channels other than 19. 😅

After knowing what I know now, I never would have bought these with the intentions of making a repeater.

I have my General ticket and my GMRS license. When I first started mentioning GMRS in our ham club I would get some older (I'm 67) hams sneer and comment it's just another CB thing. Then they admitted they really didn't know much about GMRS. I've been able to educate them a bit. I pointed out that GMRS is the gateway drug to Ham radio. I've always been interested in radio. Did CB way back when you actually got a license. I went GMRS first back when it was still $70 for a 5-year license and had to renew last year. A few years after that I go my Tech and a year later, my General. My wife doesn't really want to study and test for the Ham side. She does, however, like having a GMRS radio in her car. We also use GMRS when out using HTs to keep in touch while wandering around events or shopping. It's a great thing for families to be able to use under the same GMRS license. I would love to have a GMRS repeater here in our tiny town. We're a small, rural county in south Texas. We have several GMRS-licensed people here. A few counties away there is a GMRS club with a nice repeater. They work with the local Ham club, REACT, CERT, and county LE, for a County Watch program. Neither is "better." Each service has its place. It all depends on what you want and need to do with each. Both can be part of your arsenal. Having knowledgeable capability across multiple bands and services makes you more capable in an emergency.

Here in the UK very few people use the "official" CB frequencies now that SSB and AM are legal. Most people are now on the high bands using USB (calling frequency 27.555) using "export" radios. I can listen to the "official" CB channels all day and hear nothing.

Thanks for the video, just enough info for my computer savy buddy to get the software and driver installed. It was a total pain and very time consuming. I wonder how a consumer product can hit the market with such laborious effort to use it.

oh cool a $6 earpiece

Its definitely niche these days, but some truckers and off roaders still seem to use them, a be it not as often. I loved the CB setups on older Jeeps and got a used Uniden and Stryker antenna for my wrangler. Looks and preforms great!

On top of the weekly test could they also sound in a nationwide emergency alert system test in the future?

dosent work china sure knows how make something that never works

I just purchased two Nagoya antennis, the 771G antennas to go on my KG Q10G, as the antenna is now removable. I just purchased the GMRS version of this radio for a friend of mine.

Who is Mike Bluetooth and is he related to the historical "Bluetooth" from Europe? If you've spent more than a minute with technology, you'd know that "Mike" or "mike" is a guy and "mic" is short for microphone. So it's hard to tell if you really know what you're talking about, especially with the dumbed down topic of CB radio.

Needs CTCSS & DCS

I get so tired of titles like "Here's why CB radio is dead" ect.. ect.. C.B is alive all over the world, we get skip even from the U.K, and we get drivers that come through some talk to us others complain about us being on 19.. I'm in the mid south, and it seems new people are always chiming in, it's not dead and with everything going on in the world has caused new people to pop up.. Amplifier sells are still up, yeah not dead yet. And no one uses F.M..

For God's sake, you put the battery pack in off camera, useless video.

President still hasn't added CTCSS/DCS tones to this portable. Forget about it... I'll go with the QYT-58. It DOES have those. And you also have the option of "AA" cells/rechargeable battery as well.

Does this require the -TG model or will the dsa-815 model do this as well?