mbuckner 134 Posted January 5 Well, I bent the knee and ordered a GRMS radio. Scheduled to be here on Saturday. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shellback91 1,748 Posted January 5 10 hours ago, mbuckner said: Well, I bent the knee and ordered a GRMS radio. Scheduled to be here on Saturday. The pain and shame will subside my friend. 😆 What did you go with? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mbuckner 134 Posted January 5 Wouxun KG-1000G Plus GMRS Base/Mobile Two Way Radio and a Wouxun ANO-050G Mobile GMRS Antenna 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Bowers 118 Posted January 26 Our group here has found a way to set the midland MTX275 car mobile to privacy code on 22 that will/should (filter out) other long range chatter and will work with the Midland handheld unit set on 41. I have instructions if you want them. Pretty simple. We are testing it out on a group ride to Parachute Hill tomorrow . Mick 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Bowers 118 Posted January 28 (edited) We used this set up today on a ride to Parachute Hill. “ Perfect”. No outside chatter over a 7 hour period. The ride area was near I-17. After the privacy code is set on the vehicle mobile; the hand held units have channels that work with it. You can select any channel on the mobile. example: MOBIL Privacy code 31 HANDHELD Channel 41 I CAN SEND A FULL EXPLANATION ON HOW TO PROGRAM IT. Edited January 28 by Mick Bowers 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theksmith 3,838 Posted January 28 privacy codes are useful - but we have a lot of members that aren't even comfortable with how to set the correct frequency! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Bowers 118 Posted January 29 (edited) I certainly get it about the learning curve. All our members are all "seniors”, but once the setting is done it never needs to be done again. A bigger complication we found was that folks with (non Midland hardware) have a little different programming process. The handheld units only need to be set to channel 41. Thats it. Edited January 29 by Mick Bowers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dzJeepChic 2,439 Posted January 30 On 1/28/2023 at 11:24 AM, theksmith said: privacy codes are useful - but we have a lot of members that aren't even comfortable with how to set the correct frequency! 🙋♀️, oddly enough... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gearhead 412 Posted January 30 I get that privacy codes are the elegant and sexy solution, but do I want to mess with them? Not really..... I think just switching channels or frequencies if there is a lot of 'chatter' is easy and works almost as well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
