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Someone should make a video on Youtube explaining how simple it is to do...

Front page doesn't show it. You have to click on the linked license ID to get the address. So my bad.

I'm sparse with my call sign only because I'm lazy. If I'm telling my wife "I'm on the way home" I might not even say it. But usually because I said it earlier when she called me to ask when I might be heading home. And most don't know how to look up a license ID to make it into an address. I think when you go to the FCC site it doesn't give out the address only the name. I know here the lookup tells you everything.

11.76dB 4w > 60w

4 to 60 watts is nearly 11 dB. (4 to 40 is 10 dB).

There are more important concerns with GMRS use.

They have a mental/emotional defect that makes them crave power and control - often because in their life, they have none.

It kind of seems to me like so many GMRS users are eager to police what other people do on the air. Why?

It kind of seems to me like so many social GMRS users are eager to shout out their call signs on the air. Why? is it like a radio-cool thing? Or you just genuinely want to shout out your home address to goobers with mustard stains on their shorts? It’s also legal to run it off in fast CW and ASSUREDLY no GMRS users would know how to deal with it. Legal. Your license situation is between you and the FCC. You don’t need to share it with every mouth breather on the air…

If not friend, then why friend shaped? I think people underestimate moose, too. Saw a female moose and calf at a ski resort in Utah during the summer and the employees were trying to keep people far away from them. They are absolutely massive and have no problems stomping someone who gets too close.

If you're keying in the frequency, then you're probably on a channel that has transmit disabled or in VFO mode where some radios also have transmit disabled. Kerchunk is the sound you hear from the repeater when you press and release the push-to-talk button.

All valid reasons.

More elegant.. easier to move around, less hassle, less wires.. Most important: higher wife-acceptance factor when using on the kitchen table.

....penetration....penetration with or without lubrication, it won't change the price of noodles in Pandaland

I was in Sequoia a week or two ago and as we were driving around we came up on several people pulled off the road looking at a baby/small bear just off the road... Everyone was in their car.. except for ONE non-english speaking (spoke Russian or something) woman.. and her TODDLER trying to walk up to the bear to get pictures... Every time they got within about 5 yards the bear would trot away... I left before momma-bear came out to teach her a lesson about Darwin.

I spent 18 years in Alaska. You might be surprised how many people need to hear this.

Best advice on the internet, today!

Wow, this is great info! Thank you. I've just been testing my radios one at a time and seeing what they can pick up on the repeaters. I haven't tried any simplex between the two and have only had one active at a time. I'm not quite sure what "kerchunk" is... but I'll research it! When I go to get the info for my local repeaters from a site like '"Front Range GMRS" (as redirected from here), I just key in the frequency and then adjust the R-DCS to what is specified on the site. I'll run through all the local repeaters a few times a day, but I haven't heard anything. I'm sure I'm missing something. When you say "turn off the tones", would that be the R-DCS settings (sorry that is just the menu terminology in my radio), or is there another group you recommend? I'd eventually like to be able to use the radios with my buddies, but for now I'm just trying to get a handle on the ins and outs of how it all works. I don't think I want to get full into ham at the moment as I don't have the time/money/bandwidth to go that far. But, it'd be nice to have a tool for some crisis communications if I needed it, and for communicating with friends on trips when the need arises. The radio does have pre-programmed channels and repeaters (VFO/MR), but I've just been keying in stuff. Maybe I messed up all my settings and I need to factory reset to try again.... Thanks for all the info everyone, I appreciate it. it seems that "Front Range GMRS" does a thing on Friday nights on GMRS Channel 19 so people can check their radios and such. Perhaps I'll give that a shot tonight! Never have pushed the PTT button yet

Not knocking your plan, just curious. Why do you want an integrated unit instead of the less expensive (although admittedly less elegant) option of a separate radio and power supply?

I have noticed, though, that there's almost always someone monitoring a GMRS repeater, perhaps because they're personally owned and the owner monitors it.

When I was young, I wouldn't have followed this advice, but I'm older and if not wiser, at least I know a bit more. Don't go into remote areas alone. If you're traversing difficult terrain, do it one at a time so there'll be at least one party uninjured if an accident happens. Make sure someone who isn't going knows where you're going and when you expect to be back. If communication isn't impossible, arrange a check-in schedule with someone who isn't with you. Don't try to pet bears.