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I participate in the local severe weather net on one of the amateur radio repeaters in my area. I don't chase storms, but I do report on them. There's no technical reason why it shouldn't work on GMRS, but there's no long-standing tradition of it, so you'd have to develop a network of spotters from the ground up. To get a very significant net, you'd have to have access to a repeater with good coverage. Simplex would work fine for intra-group communication, but a good "footprint" will require a repeater. As noted, you'd have to have someone with the ability to report to the National Weather Service because the advantage of a radio-based weather network is its immediacy -- reports are in real time as the action happens. Even if you don't have access to NWS, one or more local emergency service agencies might find it helpful. You'd have to ask them. A deputy sheriff operates a GMRS repeater I can reach in the county just south of me, and although he doesn't formally run a weather net to the best of my knowledge, if I hear of severe weather headed that way, I'll put out a warning on it. If he doesn't want me to do that, he'll say so. For the most part, GMRS is a service people use at a predetermined time with a predetermined group of people for a predetermined purpose, and AFAIK, there aren't a lot of people just constantly monitoring it as with ham bands. I don't know how you would get the word out to the GMRS community at large to "tune in" during severe weather. It may take quite a while for people to find out. If you had a repeater with some reach, people could even listen with FRS radios if they knew about it.

Calling Special Agent Oso Sorry, I had to...

I have found lately that Safari is having trouble loading the web page, i have had good luck using Chrome or Brave. As far as the password reset. of your are nervous abut it, go to your profile and reset it there. the reset pop up will go away

I'm all over the place lol! Local Gmrs repeaters, Simplex and Repaters on Ham radio, and on Murs as well, And on Brandmeister 3100 and 93 on Dmr.

My granddaughter is at the age where she enjoys talking to me on GMRS using her parents radio or sometimes her grandmother's handheld. Good times.

You don’t owe me any thanks. I literally did nothing other than reporting problems to the owner. Rich @rdunajewski is the owner and administrator. My guess is that he did something.

The other commenters have put this very well here. I’m not THAT far away from you over in Western NC, and we have so sparse of GMRS repeaters, the ham freqs are where the skywarn etc activity is all at. I’d wager a guess that most of the US is that way, but I can only speak to right here in little corner of it lol. Welcome to the family though, and good luck on your endeavors! I have a background in meteorology, and we definitely have some unique stuff here and down your way. Just be careful when the tornadoes line up along I-85 like they do a couple times a year…eesh…

I must admit I’m enjoying this thread—and a few years down the road, I look forward to the “kid misadventures of radio” all mentioned. I own 15 acres of woods on the side of a mountain, and my wife and I have taken to using HTs if I go for a walk and want to leave the cell phone (and the rest of the world) behind. But I totally see in the future, when we have a couple munchkins of our own, using said radios to call them when supper is ready…and all the fun that will come with little explorers chit-chatting through the woods…

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Hi Steve! I don't know what happened, but I just responded to Uncle Yoda's post and "POOF", everything is back to normal, now! Thank You, All for your help and patience!

Hi Uncle Yoda! I don't know what happened. It was fine one day. The next, the home page is a jumbled mess with some words on top of other words. I can now get a very limited view of the first ten repeaters in SC, but not the normal control. Thank You for the offer to look up and translate for me!

This is a great take, actually. First: Yeah, that's why I decided that I was barking up the wrong tree when I programmed 128 channels into my RT76P. Only one repeater ever gets any action anyway, so… At that point I may as well just get a crystal-controlled set with a reed and a single channel, like old ancient Regency commercial gear. (Actually scratch the reed; that repeater has switched to DCSS as of the beginning of this year. I guess I could still use a reed to generate the tone and a MOSFET or solid-state relay to switch the signal …)

Been fucking around with the codeplug editor for weeks, and ordered a pair last night. They arrive tomorrow before noon, if you trust Amazon's predictions. I look forward to offering my thoughts once I have the hardware in hand! :D Right now I have Orlando 700, GMRS 19, and Skycom 725 as my only three channels in group one, with Skycom disabled. (Easier to reenable it than recreate it from scratch) Group two is the somewhat-busier tourist frequencies and repeaters, and group three is interoperability. Ideally I'd have kept group 2 for that, since it comes programmed to match the industry consensus "extra channels" up to channel sixty or something for interop, but that's now "watching rockets and rocking a surfboard" zone. I also have a codeplug for home and beach, each one substantially less pared down than 03-SIMPLICITY_ITSEL (character limit) which I think is going to be my default codeplug unless I have a reason to expect to need to talk to NPCs. I'm much more likely to have trouble handing a radio to non-technical family members; ask me how much I know. And ask me how much the repair bill has been so far! Oh yeah, and guess what percent of it's been paid as promised.

Six years down the line, and there's good repeater coverage in central Florida. As suspected, a 50w mobile with a bluetooth hand-mic has scratched one itch, and having repeater coverage at home has eliminated the desire to roll my own, even now that the RT97L makes operating a genuinely nice repeater technically trivial and generally affordable. Wouldn't have thought of this, but someone reacted to it recently.

If all it’s doing is asking you to select a new password, I think that’s happening to all users. If the webpage is jumbled, try doing a refresh. If it’s still jumbled, report it.

Over the weekend my son’s phone was dead so he put in his Sonic order to me over the repeater. Oh well….

I wonder if it's user specific or regional, it's doing it for me.

Just a thought—for simplicity sake, an option to toggle between frequency view and channel view, sitewide (so map labels, and listing pages. I’ve been doing that in my brain (both directions lol) for programming purposes, and given some radios only show channels…it sure would make things easier at times…

Looks like the duplexer is on the way and should get here late Wed if things go well.

DPL 023 is not a CTCSS tone. CTCSS is an analog tone in hertz and DPL is a digital code. The lowest standard CTCSS freq (Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System) is 67.0 Hertz (cycles). DPL (Digital Private Line) or DCS (Digital Coded Squelch) lowest code is 023 and the highest code is 754. DCS/DPL may be either normal (D023N) or inverted (D023I) They both function the same in protecting or keeping the receiver squelched until the tone or coded is present on the frequency/channel carrier. When the tone or code is interrupted by unkeying, the tone/code will cease thus the receiver will squelched and prevent other carriers without a tone or the incorrect code from opening up the receiver. Essentially it is a Nuisance Eliminator. Motorola trade name "Private Line" is misunderstood by many because no frequency is Private unless it is encrypted. Other radio manufacturers use a different name for their CTCSS/DCS or no name at all.

Me: I set our radios to channel 9 and locked the controls. Just use the side button, you don't need to touch anything else. KId: Okay, thanks dad! [fifteen minutes later] Kid: I pushed a bunch of buttons and now I can't talk to you. Me: Well, you unlocked the controls, set the radio to channel 3, set a PL tone, turned the volume all the way down, and... turned the roger beep back on. Little man loves his roger beep. They're FRS radios with a .5W TX max - we did a test and I can't pick them up outside the neighborhood. He did turn it to CH 15 (462.550) once and freaked out when it picked up local repeater traffic. That was fun. Couple of older guys talking about lunch and sports.

@Raybestos It's never stopped working for me. I did create a new password when prompted. The only update in SC in the past week is a short range repeater near Carowinds. If you need something in particular, I'll check on it for you.

Output Tone 023 DPL 023 DPL Input Tone 023 DPL My ctcss setting does not go that low. 023 DPL

Not for me at 19:11

Monday, 18:35 EDST. Home page still messed up.