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Interesting. I guess it’s possible that because you live somewhere else that your eBay results are censored. Is that your state government or eBay’s doing?

If my radio comes with GD77 installed do I still use the factory CPS or is there one made just for GD77 that I'll need to use? Also, would it be possible to add a DMR section to the Forum?

The simple answer is no, don’t invite the lightning into your house. Which is the most direct way for a lightning induced surge to get to the service ground? The box where your surge suppressors are is also connected to your service ground, but if running from the mast ground to the service ground is straighter, then that’s what you should do. Motorola R56 is the bible of station grounding, but most questions related to home amateur radio equipment bonding and grounding can be answered with this document: https://reeve.com/Documents/Articles Papers/Reeve_AntennaSystemGroundingRequirements.pdf On page 3 is a diagram that shows a bonding conductor running from the mast to the antenna discharge unit and then to the service ground. On page 10 it shows a bonding electrode running from a tower to a grounding electrode and then to the service ground electrode with a separate ground conductor running from the antenna discharge unit and the service ground, so it can be done either way.

Randy, Looks like you are 100% correct. The seller sent me the same page Ebay sent him notifying him of their denialing of allowiing him to sell Hytera stuff. Kirk, The link below is what eBay sends. Evidently eBay searches for key words RD-982, or Repeater. The word Hytera itself does not trigger the response below. Notice this dates back some time. https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

Try looking at the MyGMRS listings instead of RepeaterBook. AZ shows 59 without stale or offline option enabled in the state and 125 with stale and offline enabled.

Here's a pic of what I have. One I.D. will do 3 modes and the other will do 2.

Do a web search for "Motorola R56" and you will find a PDF of a guide used for professional radio sites. This has an entire section on grounding, something that is often neglected until a lightening strike or power issue takes out most of the equipment. As to your questions, I would not recommend running through your floor joists....better as short and direct a run as possible. Don't go near your gas line either. As direct and short as possible with heavy gauge grounding wire, from your radio to a copper ground rod. Rod to bonding box and on to service ground should be fine though, unless you have hundreds of feet around your house for that too. Look at the amateur radio book/website you must have studies at some point for your license.....it will have some guidance for grounding as well. Keep it short and simple. Good luck.

I know this has been discussed and just read a 3 page discussion but it did not answer my question. I am setting up my shack with GMRS and Ham. I understand the grounding and bonding but have a bonding wire routing question. My home was built in 1972 and the service ground from the breaker box connects to the copper water pipe inside the house where it goes through the concrete in the basement. That line runs 5’ under the ground. My grounding rods are about 40’ away on the end of the house. Can the wire for bonding the service ground and mast ground rods be run through my floor joists? It will also pass close the duct for my heat registers. Is that an issue? I read a post somewhere that said not to but have only seen that once. I can’t go in front of my house or I would have to tear up a lot of asphalt and concrete. Going all the way around the back to the front would be about 150’ and pass close to my gas line and gas meter unless I go further out in the lawn. A second question. Should that bonding wire run directly from rod to service ground or can I run it from rod to bonding box where my lightning arrestors are then from the box to the service ground? Been doing a lot of reading and get more confused as I read more. Can’t find anything that really covers my situation.

big difference between HYT and Hytera. Yes HYT is manufactured by Hytera but as a different enity. HYT radios and software are down low in quality and options. HYT is basically another Baoefeng.. Hytera produces commercial stuff competing with Motoroloa and are actually good radios.. And yes, Hytera, like most Chinese companies, have stolen technologies, most notably from Motorola to win some dominance in the U.S. Lots of school districts and low budget cities and counties used Hytera Radios until Motorola sued them for stealing their technologies. However, that doesn't stop me from latching onto their repeeaters, which are pretty damn nice.

you live in Montqna

Sweet, I'll have to give it a try.

That would do it. It doesn't say anything about recreational use, but they probably don't sell enough for that purpose to be worth shipping them.

Yeah, a couple months back

The search terms you use can make difference. I've been looking at Dell and HP workstations with dual CPUs and I get different listing depending on what I type into the search bar. Same thing with GMRS Repeaters.

They can give you two but you must really must need the second one. They are getting very pis*y-as*ed about people getting multiple DMR ID's, and don't need them. DMR can only handle a max of about 16 million ID's. If they don't clamp down on people getting a bunch sooner or later those will run out. I don't see that happening any time soon but you do have to watch out. I believe you can use your DMR ID for P25 as the CCS7 ID. I haven't looked at this in a long while so I could be wrong on this part. While you're there you can also apply for an NXDN ID too. I have both so I'm covered for all three modes. DMR: 3122951 NXDN: 765

I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up. I edited my post.

There are still lots of Hytera radio's on eBay, search for HYT instead. Ebay search results for "Hytera radio" showed 304 results but for "HYT radio" shows 4,700+.

Have they updated chirp for the db20g/anytone at779uv? Last I saw, work on that was stalled. That said, I *think* the setting to change is under the "function setup" in their wonderful software...look for "Up VFO/MR" and "Down VFO/MR" items, if they're available in the GMRS proflle. Mine are both set to MR, and mine consistently start up on the memory channels. That said, mine are unlocked and being used as inexpensive ham radios, and as far as I remember, the unlocked profile opens up more settings not available in the GMRS profile. (And yes, I dug out my programming laptop and the radio I have with my travel stuff to pull a live profile to look at the settings)

I still get plenty of gun parts. Maybe you have a setting set somewhere that filters them out.

For your Phoenix batch, are they offline as in tried using them and no luck? Or not showing up in the listings? The listings here will drop a repeater to "stale" if it hasn't been updated in awhile (1 year, I believe), and you have to turn on the "show stale repeaters" option in the list/map to see they're still there

There use to be 4 or 5 repeaters that were in the Phoenix area that I could hit, now I only see one, Phoenix 650 as being up and running. What's happened to all the GMRS Repeaters? Here's a list off of RepeaterBook. There's only 20 Repeaters and 3 of them are down so that leaves 17 for the entire State of Arizona.

First do a, "Factory Function" (reset) on the Midland and then re-enter all the pertaining setup fields like: Rep - select "ON," etc. Set "TALK" - OFF Now go to CH.Rp 17 (467.600) and listen for someone to communicate on it. Personally, I would wait on putting the privacy tone in until I actually hear the repeater operating myself. Then input the privacy tone 90, if that is what you need.

This guy has a good video on programming the DM-1701. According to the video "Private" will only TX to the radio you selected. Also, you're only allowed one I.D. so I don't think they'd give me more than I'm allowed.

Might be eBay overdoing their restriction of listing items then. Not like they are known for going overboard on listing restrictions. At one point you could buy almost any firearm part available on eBay that didn't have a serial number. Now you can't find a listing for a childs nerf gun if the word gun is in the listing. Moto may have said no more Hytera, and while they were at it claimed the software in any Motorola was non-transferable and they couldn't be sold either. I haven't looked at what you are talking about, but I don't really have a frame of reference to know what it was to compare it to. It's hard to say what eBay is doing. And the Motorola thing may not have anything to do with the lack of Hytera listings on eBay. But it makes the most sense.

Go to the repeater site. It’s the same log in as this site it but you have to do it separately. I use the map so I can see where they are, type in your area and click on the repeater and it’s info will come up. You can also click on “repeaters” and click “near me” or enter what you like.