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I keep a log of all my contacts on 6m and HF bands. I don't bother keeping a log for 2m or 70cm. And the only time I keep a long for GMRS is for our monthly net that gets turned in.

My information may be outdated. Though last time I checked there are not any 70cm repeaters allowed around certain air bases in California.

Lot of radio in one package. Your right up makes it tempting .. Thanks

His stupidity and the stupid shit he says far outweighs the tiny nuggets of correctness that he randomly shits out.. and he has never said anything that 100 others here in the forum could not also tell you. ...just sayin...

MURS is limited (by FCC regulation) to 2w, and this radio's lowest power setting in the band that encompasses MURS frequencies is 5w. Therefore you cannot set this radio to a power level that is appropriate for MURS. It will work but it will be putting out too much power. The reason for the 2w limitation imposed by the FCC for the MURS band is that there are non-MURS frequency allocations for other services interlaced between the MURS frequencies, and higher power is more likely to interfere with those other services. As for GMRS, using CHIRP you can set up channels in the radio that are configured exactly as a regular mobile GMRS radio would be set up. Once it's set up properly, you would just turn the knob to the correct channel (or input the channel on your mic), and it will work as you would want a GMRS radio to work. As I mentioned earlier, this would not be in compliance with FCC type acceptance. But it could be configured to meet the technical specifications of GMRS. Remember that no mobile GMRS radio should transmit on channels 8-14, the FCC doesn't permit those channels for mobile transmission. Here, the reason is because 8-14 use frequencies directly between each of the repeater input frequencies. Transmitting on these interstitial frequencies at 5w or at wideband has a higher than acceptable possibility of interfering with repeaters. These channels are supposed to be a half watt only, narrowband only, and fixed antenna. But for channels 1-7 and 15-22 plus repeater inputs you can configure this radio to meet the technical limits of GMRS. Bear in mind that a type approved GMRS radio like the KG1000G+ will already be configured correctly, so you can't mess it up. And it will be type approved for GMRS.

Your information may be out of date. There are active 70cm amateur repeaters in both Midwest City and Del City Oklahoma, both of which are adjacent to Tinker Air Force Base.

I've never believed the FCC never takes action, but I think it's pretty clear you have to pretty much be "asking for it" to catch a significant enforcement action. When I see someone fined or jailed for nothing except using an unapproved radio on GMRS, then I'll start worrying. I'm pretty much a stickler for the rules regarding power and bandwidth, because ignoring them can create problems for other users, and I try to be a decent human, but I'm not going to get my undies in a wad over someone using a ham radio on GMRS frequencies. I'm 99.999% certain nobody will know what radio I'm using unless I tell them, and I'm 99.99999% certain the FCC has better things to do than try to figure it out. Don't interfere with other users, especially business and government agencies, and you'll be fine.

You mention that you would not recommend this radio for MURS. Why is that? Also, with respect to GMRS, you said “through some simple configuration adjustments of the band ranges in CHIRP, yes, this will work for you.” I presume you mean the regular manual frequency entries…. Anything else? THANKS

If he was genuinely a moron, I'd ignore him, but he does actually know some stuff that I occasionally find useful. I just don't know why he's gotta be such a douche about it.

No, unfortunately, when people quote his posts they still appear, unless you ignore the people who quote him.

I’m thinking of buying this radio. The specs on the Wouxon site for vhf is up to 174MHZ and 479 on UHF. You say it’s easily unlocked. Is that just a matter of inserting the frequencies into Chirp? Or, is it required to make frequency adjustments in its proprietary software? I use some MURS frequencies (151+) and GMRS.

So I blocked the pessimist quite a while ago. But his nonsense still shows up in quotes. Anyway to hide those? Live is too short, and at my age getting shorter daily, to put up with his nonsense.

I think you mean that you would like to be able to ignore specific “threads”. If you truly meant “threat” I would urge you to report any threats by clicking on the ellipsis in the upper right corner of the post that includes the threat. I would also like the ability to ignore threads.

i wonder if this guy is the onion caper ??? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jayme-john-leon-mcfury-onion_n_1914789

To have an fcc fine force collected it would have to go before a judge and possibly a jury for trial. It would have to be proven beyond doubt that the fine was owned. Try convincing 12 jurors that you are the person that violated the fcc rule. See this is all civil not criminal. One could even argue that the rule is not constitutional. It’s cb not ham or gmrs so no rules have to be read before you buy a licence. IF they found with the fcc that you owned the money Then another judge would have to issue a judgement and issue a lien. Then the collecting party could ask for funds to be taken from pay checks or bank accounts. It’s a huge drawn out process that could take years. It’s not like the irs or credit card company collections that you already agreed to pay, that takes long enough.

Its not actually blocking but rather 'ignoring' The idiot would still be there in the wild but his crazy post would be ignored on your feed.. You woiuld still have the chance to call him out.

I don't want to block any users... but I sure wish the site let you mark a THREAT as something you don't want to see come up in your "Unread topics" anymore regardless of how many new posts get added to it!

I suppose that is so that the FCC does not have the idea that they are adding to their own budget if they hand out fines... kinda of a conflict of interest? But still, if the FCC is sending the letter and announcing the fine, either they are turning that over to some other department to enforce/collect it - and THAT department is failing to follow through, or the FCC is just sending the nasty-gram letter and never actually turning it over to whomever is supposed to enfoice/collect it.

Hmm.. I was thinking maybe my question would open up a discussion beyond the "it makes the sad hams feel justified" automatic response. Why is it that when the FCC actually BOTHERS to send a letter and a fine, it seems the FINE is never actually collected or enforced in any way. If it is NOT in the hands of the FCC to process and enforce that fine, but some other enforcement or Legal department of the government... Does it just never get turned over to collections by the FCC... or Does it get turned over to collections and then collections never pursues it?

You can still see what that guys posts? Man, you gotta jump on the "block that moron" train!

I've never logged an amateur radio or GMRS contact, but I can see why some people would want to. It could be fun to look back and see how far you had reached or remember some interesting person you had talked to. I have made a "log" of sorts of people who are active on the repeaters I use. I write down their call sign, name, and a couple of tidbits about them ("WK5DKD Bob likes to go to Boom-a-rang restaurant for fish Friday." "K3OSU John travels out of town a lot for work.") It makes it more interesting to converse with them on the air. There isn't enough consistent activity on the GMRS repeaters I can reach to make it worth doing that, but that could change.

Every jerk and a--hole I know defends him/herself by saying, "I'm just honest." So, here's some honesty for you -- If you find yourself saying that...you're an a--hole.

That's not true. I don't hate anyone. Although, I definitely do not have any love for Pandaland radios and radio products or other related inferior products.

He would fit right in with the rest of the losers and whacko's on 7.200 MHz

I feel ya. Those fans can do that. Seriously.