Baofeng GM 15 PRO Range Test, how far will it talk 

I have found that the 771 to be superior to the stock antenna that comes with the GM - 15 pro.

Smiley 5/8 duck 465 MHz is very good. A 15 1/2 inch antenna in a holster is in your armpit. PIA

The 771/g is mainly for air band I believe. Not totally sure.

one thing that I thought of is when getting out some distance when you transmit. this unit will record your audio plus any noise coming in with your carrier, and then rebroadcast the noise along with the voice so you may get more noise with this then you would if you were talking to another person.

I tx simplex a good 15 miles no problem

PL/ or tone the receive on the radio on the repeater. I did that next to a microwave tower. The microwave tower started tripping the squelch on and off on the radio and had the simplex repeater fried in less then a hour.😪😪

Range won't be good in urban environment on handheld to handheld. There is 3 open gmrs repeaters you can use in the Houston city limits that have good range though.

@@Reloadeez thanks, guess I need to learn how to hit those repeaters and learn more about GMRS radios.

They work fine. Wife inside in and me 3.5 miles away with buildings and trees we talked with squelch on 2 no problems.

the radio it's self in the ground,

the repeater? seems to work as it should, I like that I can test the range by myself. the wife sometimes doesn't like to talk on the radio. it is small fit's into a shirt pocket, only problems that I have had with it is battery dead and not getting the plug pushed in all the way

Ducky antennas, 5 watt transmit. Ground level. You lie.

@@2148aait’s a bot

their are many Ham's that get a Gmrs license, why would someone prop an antenna up against an aluminum ladder? they must not know much about radio's and antenna's, if you are talking about the ladder in the video, it is a wooden ladder, I think I even mentioned it in the video, and I have never had to beg for a pl code, most are public they want people to use their repeaters

If you take a close look at the ladder, I believe that you will see that it is made out of wood at lease that is what my old eyes see I could be wrong.

Unlike amateur radio, there's no coordinators for GMRS. As long as you don't create a collision with another PL Tone it's fair game. And as it's a simplex parrot the repeater channels should be irrelevant.

Found the sad ham

My local repeater automatically broadcasts its own PL tones several times a day or whenever someone keys up after it’s been silent for a while.

During covid I walked 7 miles a day and did what he did with 2 GM30s and a simplex repeater. 8 foot tall green corn field ground level you can't talk 1/2 mile. Hill in between/// not even a half a mile. Rock face mountain to bounce a signal off of/// 6 miles. Mississippi river talking between 2 lookouts. Very clear with 12 miles line of sight. I still do this daily walking the dog locally with a J pole antenna on the house roof and the same two GM30s. 3 miles is about what they will do. Less with leaves on the trees and I have noticed with spring time sap running in the trees. The distance has been cut some.

I will have to look into that