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Gotcha, when using the ve2dbe maps it seemed to follow terrain more.

The yellow house with the red car above it is basically where my office is. Looks like pretty good coverage near my house too. I'll let you know next time I plan on messing with the radios a bit. Interesting how the signal map follows interstate corridors as well.

I knew there had to be a way to do that, just couldn't put what I was thinking into words to look it up, lol.

Pretty sure we would be able to make it that work, but I might have to go uphill a little bit. My house is pretty close to the Highline Canal, so it sits a little low in elevation compared to some of the surrounding areas.

That'd be kinda cool, see if we can make it work. I'm in the vicinity of Arapahoe and Colorado, used the church parking lot just north of there to get great LOS over most of western Denver.

A wheeling buddy of mine was impressed with the GMRS on a recent trip and bought a couple GXT1000 handhelds and an MXT115. Got his GMRS license already too. Tried out the radios tonight. I had to get a little higher ground from my house but using the 275 in my truck with the 6db gain Midland...

As whaleinafishbowl mentioned, as long as you match up the t-case years your input shafts will be fine. You may need to swap them over to fit, but I think the post on JF goes over that in detail. I swapped the 249 out of my ZJ for a 231 back in '03 or '04 I think so I'm a bit rusty on some of...

Always good to see another ZJ being built. My 95 is getting a bit tired, so I'll be moving everything over to my 5.9 here in a few years. I'm assuming you'll be regearing to accommodate the 35's?

When I turned off the 275 in my truck and used one of the GXT1000 handhelds, there was zero issue in talking with the 275 in my wife's JK. Kinda strange. Loaned one of the GXT1000's to a buddy of mine with a JL though and it was darn near impossible to understand him at all, even with him...

Still not mounting it on the roof, and certainly not paying anyone to do it for me! ? Got some good use out of the GMRS over the past week down in Silverton. Several members of my wheeling group are already planning on adding/switching to GMRS after seeing the performance and clarity gains...

It performs well enough, but it doesn't reach very far above the cab, hence me looking into longer antennas. The one I posted would reach farther over the cab, which would in theory perform better, and I wouldn't have to drill a hole in the roof of my truck and still be able to pull the truck in...

From the product page: While not tuned specifically for GMRS, GMRS is within it's optimal frequency range. Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

This looks like it would work: https://baofengtech.com/nagoya-tb-320a-38.5-fold-over-tri-bank-antenna

Yeah I've seen the 3rd brake light mounts. They're pricey for what they are. I could put a short GMRS up there, but it just seems cheaper and easier to put a longer one in stake mount. I need to keep my overall height down too so I can fit the truck in my shop without smacking the antennas...

This is what my ZJ looked like at one point, no stranger to cutting stuff up, and I certainly understand the benefits of a roof mounted NMO, but it just isn't going to happen on my truck. The ZJ, however, will certainly be getting an NMO roof mount. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Unfortunately magnets and aluminum don't work all that well. Kinda stuck with the stake mounts as I don't want to drill a hole in my $70k truck quite yet. Sent from my SM-T710 using Tapatalk

So I've noticed most GMRS antennas are quite short. I'm used to 3-4' CB antennas, and am not finding anything GMRS anywhere near that length. I'm sure it's got something to do with the frequency range, but with the stake pocket mount I use on my truck I find it doesn't reach up over the cab as...

If you're only trying to cover 75 acres it won't be hard at all. We use GMRS for very similar reasons as you do, and the Midland GXT1000 handhelds should be more than sufficient, even on the low power TX setting, even from inside of a vehicle. I certainly understand the benefits of a...

@dreadlocks summed up why we didn't get the 400. And the extra cost per unit. We really only need to transmit up to 5 miles, 10 MAX, and with the terrain increasing our power isn't really going to get us to areas that we can't already cover.

The AA's were something I had been considering. In theory it would decrease output by 20% or so (4.8v instead of 6v) but most of the time when we're using the handhelds we're within a couple hundred yards of each other. Any further than that and we would usually have a vehicle nearby with a...