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I now have a TK-3180 and waiting on a TK-2180 to come in. Thanks for all of your suggestions.

Certainly, my point is simply that one might might get confused if the radio is programmed to display a repeater icon when it receives a transmission on a repeater output frequency, such as 462.625, and also is programmed to display a name such as "R-4".

so true... i am a small engine mechanic... what oil to use and if 2 stroke what mix rate..... great way to stir the pot...

I still had Shaw Butte at a CTCSS tone of 100.0. I'll have to look up and reset some of the tones.

No, that’s not what they’re saying. They said it costs 3.69¢ to produce a penny, which also include distribution. Since 1982, the amount of copper in a penny is only 2.5% of the weight of the coin. The weight of a penny is 0.088 oz. 97% of a penny is zinc and it’s prohibited by U.S. law to melt pennies or any other U.S. Mint produced coins anyway. In the pedantic spirit of completeness, at today’s copper price of 32¢/oz, the copper in a penny is worth 2.5% * 32¢ * 0.088 oz/penny or 0.0704 cents/penny. Aren’t you glad you asked?

In this thread, I learned that DMR is not allowed on GMRS frequencies.

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You Rebel.

We are going to do something different with the tones next week. I will keep you posted on the experiment.

And at 1603 hours Westbound Loop 202 (South Mountain Freeway) from the Maricopa Freeway Interchange (Interstate 10) and there was some RF noise in the signal. The station ID seems to get real consistent 3 minutes after the top of the hour.

It was precisely in that novice experiment that we discovered that it is much better this way, more reliable, and we don't interfere with anyone else.

Both the Sun City West 625 and the Shaw Butte 725 repeaters have hang time. Shaw Butte is using a non-standard DPL tone and it was up as of yesterday. The Phoenix 650 repeater does not have any hang time.

It's not exactly secret knowledge that the channels are all interleaved like that...I'm not sure what your point is here. Even on my cheapest radio I don't get bleed-over between those frequency steps.

Yesterday, I was kinda surprised that I was able to kick my GMRS repeater approx. 65-70 miles away from the Sacaton Rest Area on Interstate 10 to Sun City West. I believe my signal probably just skated along the edge of South Mountain in Phoenix. The repeater antenna is 30 feet at the tip and I was using a Laird/T E Connectivity Phantom Antenna on my Jeep. I was using my 40+ watt Motorola XPR5550e mobile radio. The repeater puts out 29 watts from the duplexer to a Laird FG4505 5dB Omni antenna.

I tend to use my HT's in a mobile setting so the use of an external antenna is a major consideration. I've tried to "standardize" on whatever the port connector type is on the radio to a female BNC. BNC connectors are a constant 50 ohm impedance type so even at UHF you really don't have issues with SWR using them. I can typically find just about any kind of adapter to BNC type. Also finding cheap short RG-58 cable with BNC's are easy. As long as the length is short the losses are minimal. One other connector type that gets overlooked are the "mini RG8X" type. They look like mini versions of the usual PL-259/SO-239 types. The major difference is they are also constant 50 ohm impedance and rated up to a couple of gigahertz in frequency.

Poor man voting. We do this in SAR. All our repeaters transmit and receive on same frequency pair with different PL tones across the network on the inbound. Basically allowsa unit to hear all the outputs without changing channels. If we say Unit xxx on the air on XYZ Mountain and I'm on ABC mountain I still hear them and know to talk to them I need to change to that repeater input. My GMRS sites are similar. For those with a base or scanner its only one channel to monitor.

so they are saying the copper in a penny is worth 4.5 cents.. Hmmmmm. what do you do now.. they are out of circulation. I have a 5 gallon water bottle full of copper.

What do you notice about Channel 4 in comparison to Channels 18 and 19, which are also the outputs of Repeater Channels 26 and 27? In actuality, you are saved by the bell because as of today, there are Zero Cents being made by the US Mint!

Icom has older & newer model h-t's & mobiles that offer choices of 128, 256, 512, & 1024 channels

Yeah, the MX or MXI connector is a PITA For h-t antennas you can purchase Smiley Antennas & specify the MX connector

I have no experience with Kenwood & Motorola, but I've been using Icom LMR h-t's on GMRS & MURS with great results FWIW, Alinco Part 90 h-t's are very good performers also

Looks like good line of sight.

Even that won't really tell you. You could be on RPT 1 or GMRS 15 and, unless you had Rx tones set, you'd hear it the same on both channels.

I have had that conversation several times with my boss (who is a good Business Guy but not a Technical Guy) before he stopped asking about it. All the models I've tried produced great looking code... with functions that didn't exist or didn't work like the code wanted them to if the problem was even moderately complex. It was okay for generating API specs, but given how much refactoring I had to do to make some assets reusable, it would've been faster to run a few JSON examples through a converter and write the rest of the spec by hand. Might be useful some day, but today is not that day.

I really despise AI. Being in IT, it is being jammed down my throat as the best ever... but I have to correct the AI results more often than not. As far as I can tell, the only thing AI has accomplished is make it so I never ever trust any audio or video recording I see... ever... for the rest of my life.