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My understanding of "official language" is that it will be required on all government documents, web sites, etc. and official documents can't be required to be provided in other languages. As far as I can tell, it won't prohibit government sites from providing translations in other languages as long as an English version is provided. Which, TBH, seems pretty reasonable to me. Since TV stations, radio stations, etc. aren't usually government-run, they'll be unaffected. Since GMRS and amateur radio are mostly private endeavors, I can't see the EO affecting our radio usage. Nobody owns the GMRS channels, and short of a change to FCC regulations, nobody can dictate to me that I can't use whatever language I like. A repeater is a bit different. Since it's privately owned, I support the owner's right to decide what language users must speak. I'm not sure how you'd enforce that, but in theory I support it.

My guess is that it's a holdover from military and commercial radio where fixed stations communicating with other fixed stations can be pretty common. Less so now, with modern equipment, but at one time, a lot of -- usually remote -- military installations had radios that only talked to the "mother ship" somewhere else. I think FCC just carried over the idea and the language to GMRS where it's rarely applicable.

The radials arrived in the mail yesterday, so I'm ready to stand up the mast whenever I can wrangle some help. A couple of friends who are GMRS users have volunteered to help; we just need to find a day we're all available. My location isn't ideal for a repeater, but it's pretty good, and I'm not in a position to rent space on a tower. If my calculations are correct, 50' should get me over the hill to my southwest, which is the only major obstacle for a considerable distance. If I can get over the hill, I should be able to reach the family farm west of town. East and north will have excellent coverage, but my biggest goal is to reach the farm.

When I was restoring a lot of old military firearms, I bought that stuff by the bucket. Removing the barrel from a 70 year old M1 rifle can be...interesting. Much cursing was involved. When I put the rifles back together, barrel threads and other metal-to-metal screws got some anti-seize. So, I'm right there with you on that.

This might be a bit late but hopefully will help someone. On the mike scroll through the channels. When you get to the repeater channels you will find double channel entries. On is simplex and the other is the repeater channel. Once there match up the channel and ct code in the manual. Then using the menu system on the correct freq you will be able to set the rec and tx. Best to find that info and write it down before setting the numbers.

Hi everyone I`m John KQ4KQP/WRUH751 and I want to do the same project is Luish19779 I do have 2 MCS2000 uhf 403 to 470 Mhz, Duplexer a comet 712. I need the interface cable and lear how to program the radios to be a repeater. is anybody know where to get the interface cable? Those are the cables that I like to have, and this are the controlers that I have. If any body have a video step by step how to put everything together, I`ll appreciate Thank you : JOHN WRUH751/KQ4KQP

That's a very good question and I doubt any human on earth can it.

I put together a hotspot for ham radio. Tonight I picked it up while driving on the interstate about half a mile from my house. It continued until I was nearly a mile away. It has 10 milliwatts and a 3 inch antenna. I was surprised. I already owe you beer!!

Had a nursing home near me using Channel 1 and 67.0 PL. Occasionally, usually late at night, I would say something like, "I just crapped my bed again. Can someone please come clean me up and change my sheets?" There would be several "Who said that"'s and confused chatter between the staff for a while. It helps if you can do a good "elderly person" voice. I could do that since my teens. I AM elderly now so it just gets easier.

Wanna have some fun? Belch a couple of times and listen as there is a panic to verify possession of all radios by the teacher they are assigned to. They think a kid has one of the radios. Orrr...after hearing names of teachers or administrators (Mr Jones, Mrs Smith, etc) in the school for a while, if you can get your voice high enough to genuinely sound like a kid, say something like "Mr Roe and Mrs Doe are sleeping together." Pandemonium will ensue. Don't ask how I know this.

My background is petroleum industry and water treatment. Always use anti seize. That one fastener you think you will never have to remove and decide to skip coating is the very one you will have to take apart. Anti Seize (the brand doesn't matter, they all work) is about the cheapest sanity insurance you can buy. And take it from experience, it will save lots of skin. Also, always repeat always make every electrical connection (even those in "water resistant" housings) as water tight as humanly possible. Long story short I grabbed an electrical conduit that had been out of service for a couple of years. Lit me up like nobodies business. Two lessons learned, never believe lockout/tagout tags, and never trust an electrician unless you verify it yourself. Water had gotten into the conduit.

Negative Nancy AKA REEH-TARD, aka Mr 250 miles needs some serious professional medical help! @BobDiamond glad you figured it out and I'm sure ShowMeCables will take care of things for you.

^Come to my place sometime and show me how your HT will go 50 miles. I'll buy the beer.

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WOW! someone's off their meds again. @marcspaz gave good advice.

I used GMRS radios when I moved from Alaska to Oklahoma 3 years ago. There were 4 of us with an RV and a pickup truck pulling a trailer. There are long stretches of the Alaska Highway where cell service is nonexistent. It was orders of magnitude better than pulling over and talking in person when we needed to pass on information.

Thanks for your reply. Turns out the jumper cable has an intermittent short. And I bought that cable custom made to length using Times low loss cable from a company called ShowMeCables.com. So that will be returned to them. I located another jumper cable in my "junk box" of radio stuff and all is working perfectly now.

Make sure the meter is on and on the 200w scale. (Yes, it has an off button) Also be very sure you did not mix up the antenna connection and Transmit connection. If you get them backwards, the meter doesn't move. As mentioned above, make sure it's set to AVG and not PEP. If the meter is set correctly, the next thing I would question is the coax between the radio and meter having a short.

couple years ago someone did a full write-up on that SWR/PWR meter here. Do a search see if you can find... And even though i have Socalgmrs blocked he message squeaked through,, perhaps because I'm on my Windows Box. Just block the idiot and don't pay any attention to Negative Nancy.. That's what we call him

@Socalgmrs why are you still here?

Update: This is on every Thursday at 1900 hrs. 700 is the strongest local repeater -- good for ~35 miles.

Woxoun kg-1000,Daiwa CN-901V…… You forgot to name drop your coax…. Or give a model number to the diamond antenna glad I don’t worry about swr. I just buy good antennas and run it. I’ve got better things to do then spend time watching my swr meter. But any one that spends $400 on a radio and another $250 on an swr meter and who knows what on an antenna has issues anyway. I’d bet cheap coax and junky antenna has something to do with it. for $650 a can set up 3 50w base stations that radiate over 550w with 200mile range. And all with no swr meter or silly questions to a stranger group of man-queen worshipers.

the Daiwa is kind of a funky meter, Don't use the P.E.P. and try.

My wife was super impressed. She might be ready for an amateur license some day. We had an interesting announcement about the state patrol. I thanked some people way ahead of me, but there was no way for me to exceed the limit. I did tell me to look at a mountain range off to the left and the view was amazing. Nice people along the way.