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"Moose, Rocco, help the Judge find his checkbook."

Recently I figured out how both my TYT MD-UV380 and my Alinco MD5 allow me to semi-easily add a talk group on the fly, but it took me a lot of experimenting to figure out how to do it. As I recall it also doesn’t require me to add them to a zone. I haven’t done it for a while but I remember having the eureka moment. Before I figured this out I was always stumped because for most talk groups you have to add the TG to the list of TGs, then create a channel consisting of the name, frequency, timeslot, color code, and TG. Then, you must add the channel to a zone. Finally you navigate to the zone and select the channel.

For our rocket launches I am the LCO (launch control officer) who announces the launch, counts down, and then presses the launch button. The LCO is required to be able to command the attention of the spectators. I’m also the guy who has his mobile GMRS station setup there with a battery so I can talk to the the rocketeers who have walked out on the range to recover their previously launched rockets. It would be great if I could use the GMRS station as a PA.

You call Guido and Vinny. They'll have a talk with him.

I am intrigued and will be following along! The intro video was a fun entrypoint. The T-Deck Plus looks like an awesome choice for self-contained meshtastic!

every once in awhile we encounter a nut case whacko that insist on creating kaos on GMRS... What do you do??? Telling the FCC will not do anything, so now what.. Well, here in 'my' community we have just one 'Nut Case Whacko' and sometimes he is a major pain in the azz. This 74 year old POS likes to jam local repeaters, make farting and belching nosies and in general be a child on the air waves... He's been put in place more then once but he always gets a second wind and returns to his childish games. Aside from calling his name out on the air waves, his home address and even his HAM radio license (N6QIS) there is nothing else one can do.. Bounding on their door would be foolish.. How this clown got a General Ham i'll never know, or why he got it is even more confusing. He never talks, he just makes childish annoying noises. That all he does.. This has been gong on for years, and there must be dozens of complaints loged against this clown. He know's the FCC will never harm him and he is smart enough to stay away from dark alleys.. How you deal with clowns like this is an answer i'll never know.. I guess all we can do is pray someday soon the a$$-wipes die

Bingo.

Yup,, I've got a medicine bottle full of them.. And they get used as a first choice when possible.

I wore greens as well but in the Navy as a Bos'n Mate / Salvage Diver. We used nicknames instead UNLESS you were in trouble!

None of my very expensive Hytera DMR Radios came with a programing cable.. And those cables were almost as expensive as buying this Baofeng Radio.. The DM32 uses the standard Baofeng program cable. Like i said, i had a ton of them at one time..Funny how the cheap cables tend to get lost and missplaced but that never happens with our $50 cables.. I've never misplaced any of my Hytera program cables, they have a special place unlike my Baofeng cables that are stashed at every corner

Why would you need a PA for? In most communities it is illegal to use a PA in a vehicle if you are not Public Safety.

There was quite a bit of silly nonsense stuff going on early yesterday morning on Shaw Butte, and both Towers repeaters. I think I might have heard something on the 650 channel. It appeared to be simplex traffic since the repeaters are still down and signal level of this nonsense appeared to be at the same signal level at location I was in.

I can't imagine it being very useful. I don't think even most CBs include it anymore.

Once you receive your DM-32 please try this exercise and report back: You are having a QSO on the Worldwide (91) chat group. The other station suggests freeing up WW so that others can use it and asks you to continue the QSO on his local chat group: the Catawba Valley DMR 31678. Will the DM-32 allow you to immediately switch over to and communicate on 31678 without having to program that Talk Group into the radio either ny hand or computer?

A shame that a radio as complicated as DMR does not come with its programming cable included. I suspect that, similar to the Baofeng DM-5R and DM-1701, the chip is already in the radio and the USB cable is just a passthru that does not include a chip.

Just curious, but why don't GMRS mobile units have a PA option like some CB radios do?

You're very welcome!

Just wanted to say thank you to those who got us going in my gmrs. Thank you for resetting and it’s worked perfect since! Thank you!

That's about it.

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At least the battery is included.

Anyone can report interference or non-compliance. The FCC seldom (never?) does anything about GMRS. I have no idea if many reports are made about GMRS. I know virtually no actions have been taken against GMRS users. I have no idea why a ham would be disgruntled about GMRS. I participate in amateur radio and we simply don’t often discuss GMRS often. Probably about 20% of us hold both licenses. There certainly are “sad hams” but most hams are not them. In fact many of the people who complain most vehemently about GMRS users breaking the rules aren’t even hams. I’ve seen many more radio professionals complain about noncompliance in GMRS than I have hams.

M2 self tapping for plastic.

This is just my opinion and by no means intended to be legal advice, but I have to agree with Randy and others with the same type of response. It seems that unless someone is committing some wild infraction, they aren't getting FCC attention. There are way too few enforcement agents and way too many people with radios for anything else. I used to think it mattered, but time and inaction have unequivocally proven otherwise. I have an XTL5000 that has the ability to run wideband digital encryption on UHF at 115 watts. From a technology standpoint, it exceeds every single minimum requirement established for type approval. If I where to program it to transmit 20w of output, only able to access the upper channels for high power simplex and repeater operation, narrow-band analog voice only, adhere to all of the other configuration requirements (including not transmitting on non-GMRS frequencies) and the FCC enforcement team knew I did it... I highly doubt anyone is going to care. Shoot... unless I were to get on the internet and start bragging about it, there isn't even any way for anyone to know. Signal interception sure isn't going the tell anyone anything. The bottom line is, I would never advocate or condone intentionally violating the rules... but damn dude... the FCC has way more important things to worry about then if you are using an iCom, Kenwood, Motorola, Yaesu, Harris, Baeofeng, TIDRadio, or any other radio. Ensure you don't cause harmful interference by using a quality radio and not acting like a Richard Cranium and im pretty confident if you roll the dice, you won't go to prison or get a $14,000 fine.

No. These are not standard metric machine screw sizes. Under magnification the screw threads look like sheet metal screws or wood screws with the screw pitch much larger than machine screw sizes.