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eek, hell all those Bao's look terrible next to the Kenwood.. at least my repeater and most repeaters wont key up w/out proper tone to avoid those interference spurs but yeah those spectrials scream chinese transceivers.. don't even need labels to see that.

FRS is 2W Wideband on 1-7 and 15-22, and 0.5W Narrowband on 8-14.. your walmart radios should be certified, they are capping out the power at half a watt on those channels seamlessly for you. Repeater inputs alternate between 8-14 and are wideband (kinda like 8.5-14.5), the lower power and...

those are okay for Simplex up to 5W, if you got the 4W bao's you'd be totally Kosher in my view if you held licenses and know how to operate your radios properly... GMRS Users like my self cant even use type certified radios yet, so I cant cast stones at others not using certified radios as long...

ayup.. those wheelers probably just pulled up a list of GMRS frequencies and then decided to use repeater inputs since they figured nobody else would be using em.. listening to em they had a drone and were out to get instagram shots or something stupid. it sucked because my son had rode his...

Get em all licensed up if you guys have expanded beyond bubble pack FRS radios.. we have to defend our public bands or else some lobbyist with unlimited money is gonna try to take em from us.. part of that is being a responsible adult and obtaining licenses to not only be legal but to keep it...

PS, you operating Baofengs on FRS frequencies is even worse.. there's a very good reason why those are power limited, because 467 is either extremely low power or repeater inputs.. and as someone whom operates a mobile repeater, you'd be interfering w/my licensed operation since high sensitivity...

Yes, my license or their own.. yes neither are completely legal, but there's a vast difference between handing someone a radio thats pre-programed and the end user is not capable of broadcasting out of the band plan or breaking any rules other than the part licensing on the radio.. and handing a...

yeah I dunno about handing out Baofengs to unlicensed users, there's nothing stopping em from keying into frequencies they have no business on.. For my parties I hand out these: https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/zastone-x6-retevis-rt22.203725/ They are cheap as hell...

yeah w/out a rigid frame the cells risk flexing, and no they shouldn't be flexed.. it breaks down and destroys the cells.. even the so called flexible ones advertised as it can be flexed very few times.. like once to glue it to a curved surface, but not regularly or they will short out...

your looking at foldable flexibles actually..

I just park it, turn a few lights on and let it drain to my 20% SOC Cutoff.. if we get some warm days I'll go plug it in and let it charge back up, then the lights will slowly pull it back down to cut off.. thats mostly to give it a few cycles over the winter and ensure SOC keeps calibrated...

for trails I usually knock it down to about 40-50% of road travel, if on sand even lower.. as low as it'll go and hold its bead.

Whats your camping style? are you just a weekender? If so you dont need solar, just plug it back in when you get home.. like I said earlier, if you get a somewhat decent fridge a pair of GC2's should comfortably run it ~6 days, 4 days in absolutely terrible conditions (like desert camping and...

soo.. OP can have what he wants, but instead of connecting the panel to the battery directly he connects it to the solar charger mounted near the battery.. just put some nice anderson powerplugs on it and connecting/disconnecting will be as fast as any clips, and much safer.. idiot proof. I...

wow holy ********, I can grab one of those terrible Nobo's for <$14k new old stock pretty easy, ive seen em used 1 season for like nothing locally.. I can also find decent LT's in that size for ~$100 USD, your already gonna need 3.. so dont count that as extra cost, only +2 tires.. which is like...

Yer still looking for your trailer @Grassland? damn bro, u been at this a while now.. Dont look at on Tandem axles as a Con, yes you have to buy 2x as many tires.. but trailer tires are cheap, and most people's age out before they wear out, how long you expect it to take to put 40-50k miles on...

1C = Battery Capacity in AH@20H.. IMO Deep Cycle FLA bank should probably be backed by a 0.15C charger max, 0.1C Optimally, I think .05C is a bare minimum or recharging from a deep discharge takes unreasonably long (days).. so for 215AH of GC2 the numbers come out to: 30A Max, 20A Optimally...

yeah thats why I originally switched to a fridge, went on a week long backpacking trip and start dreaming about ice cold beer and a big fat hamburger with everything on it.. then get back to the vehicle to find the beer warm and the food spoiled, damn 7 day coolers my ********.. thats why I needed...

OP's completely gutted and rebuilt a 1970's Coleman popup from ground up.. he's in the unique position he can easily make way for a couple GC2's.. so yeah, he could put all his electrical on a slide out platform thats basically standalone, I dont think he even needs trailer power for breaks so...

you cant run a genset 24/7, you still need a bank to keep your food cold overnight.. and if you venture into any actual campgrounds your gonna a hell of a time getting it 100ft away without putting it in middle of someone elses camp. Ive got the same generator, and its only for air conditioning...