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It's a question someone who carries should have thought about ahead of time. Knowing you won't hesitate and having a plan in place for when you're arrested, e.g. a good lawyer ready to go immediately since self defense is a legally justified homicide that the DA hopefully decides not to...

Yes, the reason for a "real" MT exists and it's for deep homogenous mud, snow or sand. The large voids clear themselves more effectively rather than staying packed up. But even if an MT could in theory work on dirt roads and packed snow you'd have to spool the tires up throw the debris out...

You may be confusing the 10-plies equals E-rated from the bias ply days. Two vs three actual ply sidewalls is a valid comparison of construction. Duratracs have 2-ply construction while BFG ATs have 3 ply and the club (Rising Sun) experience is that Duratracs really do have a disadvantage in...

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/144-146-mhz-removed-from-french-proposal-for-additional-aeronautical-applications

Will an iDEN/CDMA device work in Italy where there is no iDEN network at all? I thought a phone like the i576 still has to have a iDEN network to dispatch a direct connect rather than an interconnect (e.g. a regular cell call). Even though Nextel's is gone there are still iDEN networks AFAIK...

FRS and GMRS are U.S.-only services and the only international use would be that Canada mirrors them substantially. FRS I think is done similarly in Mexico and South America but I don't know the specifics. Since you're an amateur radio license holder you often get reciprocity privileges in...

Regional differences certainly affect this since our state-wide linked repeater system (the Colorado Connection) sits on 2m so VHF is paramount for Colorado. OTOH the western half of Colorado and southern Utah are linked with a UHF system (Grand Mesa Repeater Association) which my county SAR...

I often wonder how Rugged Radios keeps going without the FCC shutting them down. I have a buddy who's 24 Hours of Lemons got a batch of radios from them. The guy who bought them for the team wasn't a "radio guy" and asked my buddy to figure out why. He's a fellow 4wd club member and ham so he...

Many business & public service radios are sized to fit in a DIN slot adapter. That would cover ham radio (and GMRS if you're so inclined). I would assume the commercial derived ham-specific would also fit, like the TM-281 or FTM-3100 sort of radios. It's the default size for those consoles...

I got a ticket for having an obscured license plate on the old truck with the plate in the stock location and a 1UP. So I moved it to the tailgate and never got hassled again, even with the Ron Paul bumper sticker.

Is there anything written down formalizing (even anecdotally) that FCC position? I mean even legitimate reports of inaction.

Yes indeed, Connect Systems will retrofit any existing CS800D to an FCC Part 90 CS800D with a new sticker for $149. So when you do the maths you'll find that $199 + $149 is somewhat less than $399... That's if you actually need Part 90 approval, which technically doesn't really help for GMRS...

The Land Cruiser has never exactly been a huge seller in the U.S. Not a 4Runner, Truck/Tacoma, Corolla, Camry sort thing anyway. It's surely not a coincidence that the 4WD Hilux/Pickup was introduced in 1980 and there's an immediate dip. I've read that since 1951 there has been a total of 7...

I've been running a CS800D for a couple of years now, no complaints and has worked for me. The CS800 and CS801 are both Part 90 certified already. I think they still have a couple of the old non-Part 90 CS800D at the $199 blow out price.

Not out of the box. You might then figure out a firmware mod to force the microprocessor to free band but are you sure the alignment and filtering are compatible with wide band transmit?

I'd call the FTM-100 the replacement for the FT-7900, not that it really matters. As built none of the amateur Yaesu radios will transmit out of band, e.g. they can receive GMRS but the firmware locks you out from trying to transmit. Yaesu has been building amateur radios for a really long...

That is not surprising since the 1991 had a 3FE, which even by Toyota and Land Cruiser standards was slow. IMO the 3FE powered 80 series (1990-1992) are excellent candidates for a H55F stick shift conversion or R2.8 Cummins. The diesel would be my path and then sell the 3FE to a FJ40 or FJ60...

Didn't the 2017 rule change make those interstitial channels shared? So GMRS can use them but they may find FRS users there, too. Previously GMRS had no 467 MHz simplex allocation, but by splitting the repeater inputs and using 12.5KHz bandwidth they do at 1/2 watt, just like an FRS user...

So do legal GMRS mobiles (like maybe an MXT400) go down to 1/2 watt on channels 8 to 14 or do they skip over them?

Unlikely to be physically damaging to another radio. Harmful in the sense that it can cause interference, e.g. transmission and reception issues to other users. That may range from mildly irritating to immediately local adjacent channels up to widespread annoyance or actual communication...