How Far Can You Really Talk With A GMRS Radio? How Far Does GMRS Transmit? GMRS Distances Explained
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I have asked the distance question several times including the Nazi on this channel who would not even respond to a personal email. That said I am going across I-70 this summer and my wife and I will be in two separate cars. I-70 is straight for 2000+ miles so for the most part line of sight. I was just hoping I could talk 10-15 if we got separated. No one in the radio world has ever talked between two autos on the interstate for they can't answer the question. I have had some say 1-2 miles. If I am going to spend $1,000 on two Wouxun 50 watt 1000's and can only get 1-2 miles , guess what? Yep I will use my cell. But I bet I can get a lot farther even in crappy weather. So I am going to make the purchase and test it. I will post the results to this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The nazi on this channel cant answer every question emailed to him nor is he your personal question-answering resource. However, the nazi on this channel has gone out of his way to create a "ask Randy" webpage, with a link to that page on EVERY video, where anyone can ask a question, and it might get answered in a video.
If you dont like that, then figure it out yourself, just like the nazi on this channel had to do.
But where does one go to get lessons in being unnecessarily rude and totally stupid so that one gets pinned..?hmmm...
Dude doesn't know I-70 too well. Literally, where I-70 starts, at I-15, in Utah..... you are in mountains clear to about Denver. Even then, it's roly-poly to about 60 miles into Kansas. Then, it's pretty flat until Missouri. I, personally, have made this trip in caravan with several cars. CB turned out to be best but cellphones were still hard to beat. Nothing works in the Rockies reliably, except a satellite phone. Most towns do have local cell service. Heck, even a few rest areas have a tower.
IMHO, I-80 is a better drive.
Dear Don, Could it be that your wife is trying to get as far as away from you as possible and this is the real reason why you would need a radio to TX/RX 10-15 miles on your drive? Don't waste your time buying $1000 radio to TX/RX 10-15 miles.... just learn NOT to be an idiot to your wife and she might just stick closer to you on the drive.
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You inspired me to get my GMRS license and today I just installed my 50w repeater.
very nice! :D
Which repeater did you go with?
congrats. I'm looking into the same thing
I ordered the 1000g plus today. Maybe I'll hear you out there.
What repeater set up did you go with? THX
No matter how long you’ve known los uhf/vhf propagation this is the best explanation I’ve ever heard. Always here for a damn good laugh
It ain't but October, and Randy's already got his Christmas tree up...
I finally started looking at GMRS seriously when I was regularly was able to reach a repeater located 60 miles away, and held conversations with a friend that lived 20 miles past the repeater. And you are completely correct about altitude, I live at sea level, but can see Mt Rainier from my place and have regularly intercepted conversations of climbing parties using small portable HT’s on the mountain over 70 miles away.. great video as always!! Take Care, from your FAVORITE Viewer
what radio and antenna, this sound interesting
not much of a runner or fisherman ,so I dont understand these fancy terms for what ever the heck a calculation is, if you could put an affiliate link in the description for buying my own mountain that would be great. I think it could be useful when going on walks with my duck.
On a serious note, your content is hilarious. I appreciate your time-to-punchline, and very obscure jokes from left field. Clever and witty. Keep up the great work!
I'm a Happy Ham (of 35+ years) and just getting started in GMRS, absolutely LOVE your videos!! Keep up the great work (and humor). Your videos are fun to watch and very informative.
i just want to say the descriptions, features, and explanations you give about a particular subject or radio equipment, is because of you is the reason i got into the hobby of GMRS. thank you so much. keep it up!
I've been an amateur radio operator since 1985 and I *love* your channel. Your simple explanations and sarcastic manner of delivery always get a chuckle from me. You have also convinced me to buy a GMRS handheld, just to try it out. Seems like a very useful radio service that anyone can use, and far superior to CB. 73 de WB4DW
69s man! 🤘🤘🤘
Why is it superior to CB?
More functionality is good as is tech evolves things get betters like fars 😉
I just purchased my $70 GMRS license. God willing, the all important reply email is what I'm waiting for.
This man has sold more UV-5R radios than the Chinese have. Just got mine after watching this channel for a while. Subscribed, great content!
You convinced me…. Earth must be flat…
Thus the many many fars.
I just watched this and I love the way you answered this question. I use to have a few wireless stores and I was constantly explaining to people with complaints why their phone didn't ring or why they dropped a call, particularly when in a vehicle. It's amazing how some people thought these half watt phones at 850mhz should be able to connect all the time. Great Video.
There is window tint with metal in it. I heard (because I am an expert) tint with metal kills cell phones. Dyed & Ceramic tints don't interfere (I am an expert) I have been told by sales (person($)). (I am an expert who stayed at the Green Holiday hotel)
I installed my radio (Midland MX-275) in my truck about a week ago and was listening to conversation between a couple of guys in a city about 40-45 miles (straight line) away. The repeater was in the same city on a hill, (they mentioned the neighborhood it was located) one of them was on a handheld because, first he said he was and second he was walking a bike path. There was static and only a couple of bars but I could fully understand them. I was on a elevated ridge, not in the valley. I was impressed.
Found your channel looking for radios to talk on the farm...I need 110 acre range. Great explanation that helped get my brain around it. Thank you, and appreciate your sense of humor.
I tried reaching you from my couch, yet no answer. Guess I am too fars away 😞. Maybe I tried you when you were busy with you valuable time??? I appreciate your time has value.
*Puts on mad scientist coat and builds a drone repeater* I call it Fars Fars Away. LOL Something tells me drone repeater is illegal though. LOL
I genuinely had that idea not too long ago but then I ran into the problem of my 25 min flight time then I realized I have a huge delta box kite hehehe
You better read the FAA FARs before you use your drone repeater to transmit FCC FARS away. 🤣
Weather balloon?
I don’t know about this for a repeater, but I did attach my N9TAX J-Pole to my DJI Mini and about 50 feet of coax so it was maybe 65 feet to the top of the antenna… I was able to get pretty good propagation on VHE & UHF HAM frequencies… this was before had my GMRS Lic. I am sure with a better drone that didn’t get pushed by the wind so easily, it would have been better… the antenna was anything but straight up/down.
Is the drone made by baofeng? That’s the real question.
Love your videos I always get a chuckle while watching. And learn something at the same time keep up the great video's.
When I saw the title I knew the Fars were coming! Depends!
Great video! Very entertaining! I got quite a few laughs out of it! Thank you
Randy,thank you for your video on how to get your gmrs license. I just applied for mine. Also I just received my KG-935g ,seems like a well built radio,thanks again for all your videos. Cheers from Southwest Florida.
Man, I love your videos!! Super informational and just overall entertaining! Keep them coming!
It depends… I like that! 😂
You explained it well.
Trying to dip my toes into the comms world and subbing because this is not only the most straight forward but also based video I’ve seen on gmrs😂
I love this, the "experts" are everywhere and they always seem to disbelieve anything that they haven't personally experienced. They need to be called out, well done sir!
Very helpful information explained so that even I could understand! Good job!
I'm new to GMRS. A friend told me about this channel. Great video. Thanks for the belly laugh.
Better off dead is a great movie! Keep up the great videos!
Where was that movie referenced in this video?
I want my $2
Very beginning. Paper boy $2 reference.
Fun fact did you know that Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long and 35 miles wide and there are over 200 repeaters. MY repeater is on one of the highest mountains in Puerto Rico and I have reached the repeater from practically the whole island with my 5 watt walkie talkie
You should coordinate & link a few together, and cover the entire island. This would be especially useful during hurricanes, and severe tropical storms! And allow for emergency communications after major tragedies. (Just an idea! 🤔)
@@chrissewell1608
He already covers almost the entire island with just a 5W ht. Sounds like he is already where he needs to be.
I understand that you enjoy the 4x4 driving, many fars. I have a motorcycle that I drive many fars.
I would love to see you review some accessories. In helmet mics, blue-teeth, stuff like that.
I've become a NotaRubicon Productions addict. Thanks and keep it up!
So what you are saying is: Altitude+line of sight/no obstructions+wattage will = number of "Fars" - love it and works for me!
Height makes might! Best radio knowledge ever. Thanks for the video.
Funny, I frequently converse with other GMRS radio operators in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and even Alaska, using an inexpensive chinese 5w HHT, transmiting from central Arizona. Not sure how many 'fars' that is, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 6, or 11, or even 100!
Good video - I liked how you described uhf. Thanks!
Just found you. Don’t have a license yet. But I like you. Have had CB for ever. Getting a ham. Don’t see need to spend a bunch. Your explanation on cheap Amazon China stuff will probably be the way I go Because your the only one who actually teaches anything
Great video. Which key is the fars function on the Fisher Price calculator?
On gmrs I got 50miles fars on my base station Midland mxt115 and I got 35miles mobile from my vehicle... I do a lot of test all the time even with my handhelds ppl need to do the work and find your fars 😆... Luv the videos keep them coming randy....
I've been watching your videos non stop for 2 days. You sire are awesome. And i will no longer get a ham radio thanks to hou! GMRS rocks!!!
Thanks For The information On the Fars explanation was comical and Informative
I agree with you on the distance's you can transmit. I have a 10 element Beam antenna that I transmit from Tombstone, AZ to Silver City, NM 129 miles away to hit a repeater there.
People live down there??
This is your masterpiece -- earned a sub--- my brother of another mother! Great video.
After learning what Farr's are I now can confirm that I'm Hitting a GMRS repeater 22 Farr's with a 5w Radioddity GM30 connected to a UHF Yagi 17ft high living in Miami FL.
Thank you for learning me about Farr's.lol
Keep up the fun content
WRQA561
You are indeed, the Mr Rogers of radio communications. 😊
Just found your vids a month ago and they crack me up! Anyway long time ham and GMRS licensed and it's all about your antenna and location. I've talked 40 miles simplex on 2 watts VHF, but I lived on a ridge in Denver, had a Diamond X510 antenna on a chimney mount with a Icom 7000 and was talking to a guy who had a similar quality set up. On 50 watts I could hit the Vail, Colorado Springs, and Kremmling repeaters. Since I've moved, on 50 Watts I can hit the Fort Collins and oddly, just smoke on simplex areas South and West of Parker. Location, location, location. I only moved 5 miles! Anyway, to I try to describe "How many fars" to to friends as a comparison to a good stereo system. Antennas are like the speakers, transceivers are like your amp/home entertainment system and your microphone is like your input... Think CD player/turntable/mp3 decoder etc. Location is exactly that.
Love your vids. Using my local repeater in SC on my handheld uv5g I can talk to ft Collins Co. also monitor Fla and NH. Good enough for me.
I’ve now watched about 45 of your videos and I’m happy to let everyone on the CZcamss know that I’m an internet GMRS expert.
Dude, you are always a hoot, but this is the hootiest I have enjoyed to date. I am an absolute novice to any type of electricities, and do still plan on pursuing entrance to the ham world. However, your practical presentations concerning GMRS opened my eyes to stepping off onto that plane. Thanks.
Great shirt man. Long time listener, great info.
Very informative as always. Unrelated, but when are we going to see some MYGA or FARS merch?
I just spoke with a fellow gmrs newbie this afternoon and again tonight who was 110 miles away from the repeater that’s around 20 miles away from me which we thought was absolutely insane, his house is at the top of a 580’ tall hill and he was using a midland mxt400 set up as a base station and I was using my Wouxun kg-935g plus handheld!
You do make good sense and you are also intertaining
I love that word. As usual, excellent video.
So 50 is better than 5 fars?? Man I am really confused now!! Informative and hilarious!! 🤦♂️😂😂😂
Not Fars - Whats. The number of Whats is inversely proportional to the number of Watts.
😂😂😂 ohhh, I don’t know how you keep a straight face?!? Gold star! 🌟 Take care!
Starting to Love the Jokes and Sarcastic Scenes they are hilarious 😂 😃 good video as always 👍 👌
Good explanation of UHF "electricities"
We spoke at a distance of 107km (66.5 miles) in a straight line using two identical Baofeng GT-3TP handheld radio stations. No repeaters! Station no.1 was an altitude of 2544m and station no.2 was an altitude of 417m.
It certainly works from an even greater distance because the sound quality was good.
I wonder if this guy lives in another country.
Your funny 🤣 and awesome. Current Ham New to the GMRS world and been enjoying your videos for a while now. Good channel love your content you make it fun..
a truly inglorious video...
I can talk further on my GMRS radio because I'm a licensed Ham Radio Operator....Slay Me !!! Good video. You're radio will talk as many fars as it will. One tip, keep the antenna vertical when talking and receiving, it does make a difference. Holding your radio sideways is Ghetto and Ghetto does not get fars or hot chicks. I'm off to a land far, far away so I can get more fars...73
The correct way to say it is " I'm off to a land fars fars away." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You are 100% correct Randy but I have surprised myself and talked through dirt with a 5W UV-5R and a Amp-U25 to an RT97 antenna on the roof of my house but that was only at about 2 1/4 miles. I'm fixing to put that repeater on a hill with a marvelous view of the Snake River Valley In the Boise area. I have a Jackery 1000 to power it but for starters, I won't be setting up the solar panels. I hope someone doesn't steal my hardware.
a good, simple explanation. my answer would be the query, "about that piece of string".
So many Sarkies on this Fars video!😄😄😄 Love your custom wording on electricities and Fisher Price tools.😁👍🇦🇺
"Happy HAM" here. I only point that out cause we do exist and talk to each other but hate the Sad HAMs too. Being such I have used radios in the KHz range - GHz and you are spot on. This actually goes for all of them WITHOUT skip. If you can see it, you can talk to it. I will point out that your "see it" is a great rule of thumb for lower wattage and higher freqs. If you are on a mountain on say 2 meter (144ish MHz) really the only thing that stops you talking to Mars is getting out of the atmosphere and that there isn't anyone there to receive you. Between two points on Earth that aren't blocked by a land features the only real problem is what is in the air between them be it humidity or interference. Hence why with 23w of power the Voyager probe was able to talk to use from beyond our solar system! 23w of power, line of sight, with NO weather conditions is enough to make contact 12 billion miles away!
So regardless of what the dingleberries pop up and say, YES it is IS possible (under good, clear conditions) to talk across an entire state if you are both high enough. What is crazy is how the Happy HAMs seem to do this all the fuckin time but the Sad HAMs seem to never do it! I guess living in your mother's basement and never getting laid you entire life makes sad hams forget it happened 2 minutes after you sign off.
Excellent video.
$2 dollars, I want my $2 dollars!! LOL!! Keep up the great vids Randy!!
He pointed at me. I’m his favorite!
Of course. You have always been his favorite
No!!! That was me!!!
I just got my GMRS license & ordered a couple handhelds. I plan to hook up a mobile one eventually.
Honestly I'd just love to be able to talk to family that is about 15/20 miles away. Mostly highway.
We unfortunately don't have a single repeater in our area & live in an apartment so not able to actually set up a repeater myself.
But looking forward to trying out the distance.
Ok, I think I finally have this right. If I have a narrow radio it won't hold as many fars as a wide radio, [ due to size limitations] and if there is a mountain it won't matter until I get someone to remove the mountain. Wow GMRS is gonna be a lot of work.
You have a Mr. Hand vibe going on and I like it. Keep up the good fight.
Randy, outstanding!!!👏👏👏👍😂
There's, "No One" Better, than this Guy! 👌😉
Thank you!
Using the UV5R the VHF almost always seems to get the best range over UHF. I do love my GMRS radios, even though here in Canada they are limited to 2 watts and no repeaters.
I wish you Canadians would kick that NWO Marxist Trudeau out of office Maybe then you all could experience real freedoms. - maybe even higher watt walkie talkies lol
How many fars could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Fars???
Sorry what I really want to know is what your T-shirt says… I like the full screen of the picture behind you at the end of the videos , but we need to see the T-shirt too!
I can talk to a repeater in Niles, Michigan 70 miles away on the other side of Lake Michigan from my 30th floor rooftop in Chicago, using a $25 Baofeng HT. So height does make might.
That well said. I am in boston NY . we get a weather condition that sometimes changes that.mostly in UHF . it is called temperature inversion or isotropic tunneling . basically a natural waveguide is forms and can bend UHF around. this is hard to predict and can last only minutes to hours. videos of this on youtube just search for it. at the same time. rain/snow storms can block the range. weather does effect UHF but not as much as CB 27Mhz.
I'm going to have to get me a ham license so I can critique your videos and tell you how wrong you must be, I have gotten my gmrs license thanks to you, but right now I'm just not smart enough to critique your videos without my ham license yet. 🤣 Great video Randy. Love your videos.
I love this guy forreal...
This was good lesson on the fars
Love the "better off dead: reference..lol
I tried it today in good ole flat Florida. I was able to talk 2 miles on a 5ish watt BaoFeng with a 6 dBi Comet sumthingsumthingsumthing. This was from my Chevrolet 2500 talking to a Tram 1486 bolted to a 6 foot tall fence post connected to a BaoFeng 50 watt mobile sumthingsumthingsumthing.
So the answer is... Blah Blah Blah.
2 miles ? Lmao
@@amdgamer1990 what's so damn funny?
@@Rusted_Link My cell goes farther than that and I don't have to worry about going to jail.
I paid extra so my watts are bigger than other radio's watts. ;-) Seriously though, according to an online horizon distance calculator, to extend your visible horizon out past 69 miles only takes about a 4000 ft relative elevation gain. It is very believable that the repeater would be at least that far above the surrounding landscape.
Good morning Note, thank you for your excellent video tutorials. I am new to the GMRS Community, I already have my license and thanks to you I bought a Baofen UV-5R GMRS version. I have a pretty good command of the radio. We're in Florida, I'm in Deerfield Beach and he's in West Palm Beach. We would like to speak in simplex without the use of a repeater. Would that amplifier that you demonstrated B-Tech U-25 help us with an external antenna? or what equipment you recommend to set up a base.
With a 3x3 steel ground plane on my trailer roof, (13ft high) my magnetic base antenna with my UV5R has picked up the GMRS repeater from a 10 story building 13 miles away from me clear as day. This is in the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Awesome. Thanks.
Two friends of mine (definitely not myself) fairly regularly talk on a grms repeater, that is 90 miles south of friend#1 and 110 miles south of friend#2, using 8w uv5r. And we live in the south east US with trees and hills and such, granted the repeater is on a mountain top. But we do’s it many farz at least once a weeks.
High Desert here...4450ft. Our Revetis NR30 communicates clearly at 12 miles from our house into town where my trophey/sugarbaby wife slaves away to support my habits. We have one hill between us, but does not effect the farz in this, our case. Edited to add: Town is approx 150ft lower in elevation
Fulking hilarious. Subbed
You are the BEST!!!❤
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop Lollipop?
I forgot the counts that owl made
So, that's what it took D.B. Cooper to come out of hiding ? 🤣
👍👍 Thumbs up, Randy 👍👍
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We got 3 miles going from Vail Pass down into Glenwood Canyon on i70
I was hoping for a link to the calculator...below
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Your videos are awesome. Question: would having a 50W GMRS mobile radio (like the Wouxun KG-1000G) cause some folks to hear me but not be able to transmit back, if they've got a lower powered GMRS mobile radio (like the terrible Midland XMT115)?
Yes.. more power will have more fars/penetrate through more stuff and the lower power radio may not be able to make it back to you.
nice.... thanks
If you want a rule of thumb (For your Use Only) look how far u can talk using 1 watt, then substract a little bit of that range and then u have aproximately how far you can talk per watt (if the Terrain arround you dosent change too much) I personally get about 10km per watt (Note: the bit of substracting is to act as a reserve in the real world incase of worse conditions such as a few buildings inbetween)
I live in Tehachapi the high dessert behind some mountains and wind turbines hitting a repeater 90 miles away on Crestline freeway 138 to the 15. Talking to Palmdale, Lancaster, Hesperia, Rancho Cucamonga and the 10 freeway making it almost 130 miles.
So you get to hear the non-english long-talkers blab all day long without ever announcing a callsign all the way up there?
@@TheNotaRubicon Lol, ya there's a cpl that speaks my speaks. Theres another one up there on 550 that even comes in clearer thats 100 miles i believe. They speaks prety good talks too.
@@TheNotaRubicon i dont understand the kerchunks all day long though.
Thats probably me checking to see if the non-english speaking long-talkers are still there..
@@TheNotaRubicon i hears ya a cpl times but you were on then off.
I have boofwang ar152 10 watt. Handhelds what kind of super tall antenna can i get that i could put up when want and take down when i want with an extender painter pole per say to transmit many more farrs say 50 or 100 miles and does the gain matter or a specific mygiglehertd frequency matter?
Is it fars, or is it farz? I so love these videos
Both 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Is there a conversion formula from Fars to Clicks?
I want all the other people who watch this to know that when Randy talks about his favorite listener he is talking about ME!