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Since the roof sounds a bit out of the question, a fender mount NMO might be a good match. Just get a No-Ground-Plane 1/2 wave antenna for the GMRS. As for the CB, you need 9 feet of ground plane in each direction anyway so it’s not like fender mounting it is going to make it any worse than...

I would recommend using shielded Cat6 cable for the microphone. Cat5 “may” let in a bit of noise depending on what’s around the cable to make noise. What I DO know be an irrefutable fact is that it is quite annoying to buy a Cat5 cable, various panels in your vehicle to install it only to find...

I can appreciate your situation. At least you got them moved away from CB and into something that opens them up to higher quality radios and more manageable antennas. There should be quite a bit of NMO base, no ground plane 1/2 wave and collinear antennas on the market with a much more...

And use NMO mounts. That what when you are not using the CB you can unscrew it and cap it with an inexpensive plastic cover. Also, NMO will give you the broadest choice of antenna selection. https://forum.digikey.com/t/nmo-connectors-mounting/593

If it’s any consolation, unlike CB’s 8.6 foot tall quarter wave, GMRS quarter wave antennas are only 6 inches. I know Midland sells lower powered (as in 15 watts, not 50) GMRS radios with mag-mount antennas and cig-plug power cords. They have a running 20% off discount code too. You would...

I bought a second-hand Kenwood TM-V71 and the MARS/CAP was already done on it. I programmed a GMRS frequency in it to show how it wouldn’t transmit and it did! Took it apart and sure enough, the jumpers we off. So I programmed the local aviation frequencies to demonstrate. Turns out I live...

For example, Repeater Book found 290 on-air, open for public use repeaters within 50 miles for both 2m and 70cm bands (the two most common dual-band radio setups)...

But for the record, Amateur Radio is significantly more useful than GMRS and the repeater density is orders of magnitude greater. Sent by electrons or some crap like that.

A lot of people just remove the jumper that restricts the transmit function, also known as the MARS/CAP MOD. Also, most of the Chinese radios such as the Baofeng, TYT, Anytone, etc... do not have jumpers restricting the transmit frequencies. Of the name brand ham radios (Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom...

Roof is always best. Not really because of height in a mobile installation, just getting all of the antenna above the roof-line and out of the way of the vehicle’s sheet metal and getting a even ground plane. If you are intending on using repeaters mostly, a half-wave antenna in the fender is...

^^^X2 There might be someone there that is a VE examiner, may be able to help out. I would imagine this would be more likely at BAF, KAF or RC Capital than at the other smaller FOBs and COPs. You would be amazed what you would find out there. Hell, the last time I was at BAF I was about to be...

It is what it is. Range is consistent with my Kenwoods. I live in a heavily wooded area, I figure it's from bouncing off of a lot of vegetation. I encourage people to avoid Baofeng. If you want a UV-5R for $25, fine. Anything other than that is still worth about the same as that $25 UV-5R...

It stops when I hold still. Once I get above 10mph it starts again. It behaves this way with the NOAA stations as well. Same results with roof mounted and ground bonded NMO and RG8X with a Laird unity gain stealth antenna mounted or a Midland 5/8 wave antenna. Same results bypassing my cable and...

Dang, how did I end up with two lemons? When did you buy yours? Maybe it was a bad manufacturing run with me. I purchased mine last March or April timeframe I think. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

If you are stationed on an American base overseas you may want to see if there is a club on post somewhere. A note about those Midland MicroMobile units, I have an MXT115 and an MXT275. They both have TERRIBLE picket fencing ant anything above 10 mph. The MXT400 is basically a TYT TH-9000D...

Good point. I just like how they are waterproof.

All I know is I would LOVE to build one of those tops if I were to own a JKU.

I was actually on Mouser's site looking at the drawings when you sent this. Sent from my SM-J320P using Tapatalk

Yeah, so this is what is in the chassis of the Midland Micro Mobile series. Sent from my SM-J320P using Tapatalk

Maybe an SMA bulkhead connector. They are pretty small, unobtrusive and they have low loss up to what, 18GHz. On a side note, what is up with North America's obsession with the PL-259/SO-239? Even the EU versions of the same radios we have here use N-Type. I was actually thinking about taking...