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Set his radio to channel 8-14.

You were very likely listening to a linked repeater. There was a group in Michigan that linked a large number of GMRS repeaters. At one point, when it was thought to be quasi-legal, they even had it on their powerpoint they presented to the State Police on why they should get some grant money and how they offer a public service. (They are using their own backhaul, on their own towers.) They removed all information of the GMRS linking off the internet when the FCC redefined their thoughts on it, but did not stop linking the (their) repeaters. The info is still out there, just not on their website anymore. Here's a map of their linked GMRS receivers. Whoops, won't let me upload a screenshot. But search on Mi8 GMRS. Look at the document that shows up on a .gov domain.

The only thing I've ever won in my life is a coffee mug from the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry YouTube channel. I was the first to correctly answer a cavalry history question during a livestream. It ain't much, but I won it. I'd rather win a GMRS repeater, though.

My kid likes running around outside with an FRS radio and talking to me, which is fun for both of us. He also likes kerchunking and hitting the call/alarm button until I take the radio away, which is only fun for one of us. But we all start somewhere.

I always thought it was for impressing the chicks!

i love the radio when RV'ing the highways with friends.. Defiantly would be lost without it

We have 4 or 5 that semi regularly use the repeater. My wife isn't one of them but on rare occasions she'll chime into a conversation. She has no problem contacting me though our repeater though. I still think she thinks it's our private frequency. I know it's not.

They must all be using voice modifiers on the repeaters around here

You know how women like to talk.....

Yeah, back in the day of the old 3-watt analog "mobile phone" the wife would get into her car and call me to say she's on her way home from work. After a while I asked her why don't you call me from the phone on your desk before you leave? I told her that I love her, but you're costing me $0.25-cents each time you call from that damn phone. I'm glad the novelty wore off after a few weeks or I would be in the poor house.

I kept my land line phone for a while since my youngest son was always misplacing his cell phone. He would use the land line to find his cell phone.

Radios for the win!

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing. I came home for lunch to see her off. After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio. She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house. Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was. I did, she found it LOL. And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

It's not a USB-C/12v power supply, though - it's a standard 5V/2A USB-A brick. My Anker desktop chargers are also 5V, though they support PD on the USB-C ports (which your article mentions does go above 5v but it has to be negotiated by the device and I'm pretty sure these H3 batteries aren't PD compatible). The Anker chargers work fine on other 5V USB devices, including some 18650/14500 batteries that charge via USB (through a USB-A to XH2.54 or similar connector). I'm guessing the charging circuitry is embedded in the USB-A plug housing. Side note: I do have a 12v USB power supply that came with my Thermoworks Billows fan for my smoker and that thing scares me. Other than the 12v warning on it, it looks identical to any other USB charger. It doesn't get separated from the fan or the controller. (Edit: I actually just checked and the Thermoworks 12v power supply has a USB-A socket. Which seems even sketchier. Good thing it has that grey-on-black 12V warning on it.) Yeah, it's gotta be the internal battery circuitry malfunctioning when the batteries are 100% charged. Unfortunately, there's no way to crack open one of these H3 batteries and poke at internal connections without destroying the shell, so I think my experiments end once I discharge/recharge this new battery.

It looks like it depends on what state you live in. Most online vendors do collect Missouri sales tax but so far Giga Parts has not done so.

I guess this means I didn't win it. Well, poop.

I found this snippet in a bunch of articles on hackaday: MURDEROUS “USB-C” PSUS AT YOUR LOCAL LIDL Remember the power article, specifically, how you get to higher voltages? Let’s recap: you get 5 V first, and then only after resistor detection. Higher voltages require negotiations over a digital protocol. This is a safety rule – it’s how you can use the same USB-C charger for your laptop, your phone, your wireless headphones, your devboards and whatever else. Now, what happens when someone builds a power supply with a fixed higher-than-5 V output, say, 12 V, and puts a USB-C plug on it? The answer is – seriously bad things happen. Such a power supply isn’t safe to be used on actual USB-C devices – it’s likely to destroy your phone or laptop, and it’s at a glance indistinguishable from an adapter that follows the USB-C rules laid out for everyone else. If you must use such an adapter for something every now and then, you ought to mark its cable with red tape in a way that covers the connector plug, so that you (or your loved one) don’t grab it to charge something else. Seriously, it’s easy to make a mistake, and the more you get comfortable with USB-C, the more likely you are to make it. Who does this? Well, many no-name manufacturers do, but also Lidl Parkside tools, for one. CrowPi does this too, in their recently released CrowPi L laptop. Both of these come with dumb “USB-C” 12 V power supplies, and neither of them should be sold to consumers, especially given that the CrowPi laptop is designed for kids and educational purposes, and Parkside tools are designed for non-tech-savvy people. When your kid burns a $500 smartphone or your granddad burns his laptop due to a $2 power supply, that’s when the gravity of this standard violation really sets in.

they get my calif taxes

Another quirk to the oddities here.. Now days its hard to tell if you are getting hit with a malware attempt to steel passwords. I remember a bunch of people at work a year ago getting similar notices from Microsoft. Turned out that was an attempt to steel peoples usernames and passwords. I actually went to my profile here and changed my password that route and the notice went away

If you're that close, try putting this on a pizza pan on a closet shelf. If it doesn't work you'll at least have a mobile antenna.

My Alinco dedicated charger tops out at 8.41 vDC once the light turns green. That’s typically considered the max charge voltage for a lithium battery (actually 4.2 vDC per cell and the 7.4 vDC battery is made up of two cells). I wonder if the issue is that it’s a usb-c charging device rather than a dedicated charger. That would rely on the internal battery circuitry to regulate the voltage because the usb-c charger has no idea how many cells are in the battery.

Yep, mine to. But lots of sites run quick. But that does answer the question about if there is a delay. Yes, transmit stays on for predetermined time. I guess my brain was off when I was thinking about that. Not the first time, and I"m sure not the last.

Maybe the word oscillation is whats got me. Oscillation is usually internal to the repeater due to a failure. Or if the separation and isolation are not good, you can end up with a transmit loop if the input and output tone are the same. You won't have any oscillation. If you have a short tail, the repeater transmit may cut in and out as the receiver cuts in and out. I usually set mine to 2.5 seconds. You will hear the remote station drop out and come back in, but the transmit stays open for 2.5 seconds after the last drop.

I use both amateur and GMRS bands pretty much every day. For the most part, I'm conscientious about obeying rules, but I just can't see carrying two HTs around or mounting two different radios in my car if I can get both in a single radio. If the FCC showed an interest in enforcing the type-acceptance rules, I suppose I'd feel differently. I do get a little use out of the 1.25 meter band and I like that the AR-5RM has that capability. The Baofeng K61 also has 1.25 meter capability and is a little easier to carry around due to being intermediate in size between the UV-5r and the 5RM.

Yes, we’ve been talking about it for a couple days in the section of the forum dedicated to this site.