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I am thinking of getting this as my first GMRS repeater? I thought of throwing it out there for comment. I want my own "private" repeater what I am saying I don't want to share with a club or group, I already belong to a GMRS group in the area.

I am told it is rated for 18 watts and that it is a crystal controlled unit. I think it is worth less that $300.00 so for the first one I think it would work well enough.

I have a site that would be great I can see as far as I would want to talk so I would assume that 18 watts would be more than adequate.

Does anyone have any experience or know of anything that I should know, other than it is old and not programmable, the place that I am going to get it from is talking about $125.00 to tune it and change the freqs to GMRS.

One other comment I find it funny that there is not more activity on GMRS since for $75.00 you can pretty much do what commercial systems can due. In my area there are only about 12 listings on the GMRS.ORG site for the Bi-State area I do realize that most of you are here regarding professional equipment as was I when I joined but still strikes me odd.

no one at all it os just for GMRS I think it actually is a prom programable?

BTW
this is with a duplexer too it is a uniden force I belive we even have about 3 of the vhf radios of that kind still in the trucks

nevermind the dealer tells me they use this as a rental repeater so I would have to pay 500.00 for it and I know that is far too much. so I go back to saving my money for a better unit.