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Midland has a 50 watt radio, the MXT-575. Wouxun has the KG-1000G also a full 50 watt GMRS radio. Rugged has a 45 Watt mobile Radio (GMR45). Btech (subsidy of Baofeng) has the GMRS-50x1 50 watt GMRS mobile transceiver. These are the top four mobile GMRS transceivers that operate at or close...

Gazelle T4 Plus user here. My Review https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/redesigned-2020-gazelle-t4-plus.33439/#post-481729 Another Gazelle T4 Plus Review https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/gazelle-t4-plus-the-big-daddy-tent-review.42290/#post-600611 @Michael has done...

Since both the Excursion and F250 share the same 3/4 platform… if the body is in better shape on the Excursion build it… take the best parts of both trucks to make one truck. The reason I suggest the Excursion over the F250 is comfort and ease/cost of build. In stock form all that you would...

The Marines have a weird sense of humor…

Pre running the trail or sections of trail, or buying route maps from the organization that built the route are the two easiest ways to find camp sites while pre planning. Typically when I build a route from linking together roads I look for camp sites that are marked on the NFS and BLM maps...

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Hello Mark and Linda, Welcome to Overland Bound. I am the Northwest Director. @OTH Overland 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...

I only run one spare tire, and I have only needed to change a tire once on the trail… had I not been running street slicks (18 and dumb) I wouldn’t have even had to change that tire.

That is where APRS comes in… I have several APRS transmitters that I have built and distribute on long journeys like this. I make sure the lead vehicle and tail vehicle have someone with an amateur radio license and a device capable of seeing APRS position reports. In the event a rig gets...

My understanding of the Ghost Antennas is they are more or less a dummy load any ways.

@Michael

Well I see your problem plain as day… your antenna is too low, and too close to surrounding metal… the base of the antenna needs to be higher than any surrounding mount… @JL Lou used a similar antenna and mounted it to his roll cage as high as he could and has very decent results… reason being…...

VHF and UHF in the 2m and 70cm bands are very close in wavelength and have zero relevance between the two bands for propagation under 75 miles regardless of terrain and vegetation. we run a weekly emergency QRP (under 10 watts FM/SSB) exercise on both 2m and 70 cm and get consistent results up...

2.6 SWR is definitely not Coax related… either antenna placement or poor ground connection of the antenna as the Ghost antenna is a severely compromised antenna. It is basically a coil of wire wound to give resonance near GMRS frequencies. For best mobile applications look for a 5/8 wave...

How is coiled Coax bad? The ARRL antenna book specifically says to coil apx 2m of coax to form an Ugly Choke for 2m/70cm (and as we know GMRS is just outside of the 70cm band).

Coiling up your Coax isn’t going to raise or lower your SWR… in fact making a 4” coil of 4-10 wraps is encouraged to make a ugly choke for blocking u wanted RF. SWR is directly related to the length and placement of the antenna as well as antenna ground. Without an antenna analyzer or network...

The Yasue would have been pushing 50 watts and the Midland could have been anything from 5 watts to 50 watts… hard to say for sure…

Yes you are correct, I meant that the Gosht is not as good as the Comet.

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I guess it depends where you are at. Out here in the PNW we camp all year round… head to the high elevations during the heat of the summer where daytime temps run in the 90’s and lows run in the 40-40’s. Then head to low elevation when daytime temperatures start to hover in the 60’s and lower.