Motorola talkabout T5100.
The cheap 1/2 watt radio that can at best get you a half mile range.
I was eyeballing mine the other day and decided to pull one of them apart and found the antenna was nothing more than a twizzled paper clip.
I am looking for opinions on modifying the radio to have a BNC connector and a proper 6" UHF whip (450-490 mHz) actually the modification was really easy and has already been done, all I need to do is buy the whip.
What would be the down side? would the radio be "shocked" by how well it can rx and tx? or would I be throwing something completly out of balance? or should I never mind, go test and post back the results....
I suppose I could just go buy a 5 watt commercial radio and plant the gmrs/frs frequencies in there and have all the power and range, but where would the challange be in that?
Motorola frs radio's
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Re: Motorola frs radio's
Well ... you know that those FRS radios are 'type accepted' as is - no mods allowed used just-as-they-are. There's also the slight chance that something could "go wrong" in the conversion; the transmitter could go spurious with a different load besides the usual 'human' stuff of accidents and all.westcoaster wrote:Motorola talkabout T5100.
The cheap 1/2 watt radio that can at best get you a half mile range.
I was eyeballing mine the other day and decided to pull one of them apart and found the antenna was nothing more than a twizzled paper clip.
I am looking for opinions on modifying the radio to have a BNC connector and a proper 6" UHF whip (450-490 mHz) actually the modification was really easy and has already been done, all I need to do is buy the whip.
What would be the down side? would the radio be "shocked" by how well it can rx and tx? or would I be throwing something completly out of balance? or should I never mind, go test and post back the results....
I suppose I could just go buy a 5 watt commercial radio and plant the gmrs/frs frequencies in there and have all the power and range, but where would the challange be in that?
It is a lot easier to go with an HT1000 programmed for the FRS freqs and set for low power; although how legal this is in the eyes of the law I don't know - try not to make yourelf a 'target' and create a stir in your area and no one would know, that's really the intent of the law - provide some sort of order and organization on what could otherwise become chaotic and real mess at which point someone starts taking names and/or writing new laws to control the chaos and disorder ...