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Screw that. This site should not be promoting breaking the rules.

Yep. me too. I understand doing it as needed. You never know who is on the other end and what ability to hear they may or may not have. Or if they can understand my voice. SO if they ask, I will give the call phonetically. But not every time. I got screwed by the FCC with a ham call of KB8VUL... now I get a TON of people thinking it's KD or even KE8.... but the VUL part, yeah, that's just a mess. So I do slow down giving my suffix. And it gets butchered a BUNCH. Now if I am on HF and trying to get a contact together for LOTW or something like that then I try really hard to let them know the correct call sign. If I am on the FM repeaters.... na. The only call sign you are REQUIRED to know per the FCC is your own. There is no requirement for logging contacts any more.

Because Randy said ...

The issue is not what it says (anyone can copy and paste), but that people don't agree on the meaning. All you have to do is look at some of the past threads to see the interpretations being applied.

You're in the right place. I'm new to this as well and have found this group to be very helpful and extremely knowledgeable. Come back any time.

I do actually… I can point to language that pretty much implies that the use of GMRS is meant to be utilitarian, and I can also point to the Family Radio Service “adjacentness” to pretty much lay out what the “spirit of what GMRS is meant to be”,… And contrastly, who are actually the ones clogging up the works.. And by authority I mean, in the sense that I’m an authority of a well read user of the part 95 rules. Not one in the sense that I can kick in doors and shoot dogs.. I’ll challenge anyone here on part 95a subsection e like a theologian…

I agree. Do you hear traffic on that repeater? If so, do a CTC/DCS scan while RX comms. Once you got that, then break in and ask for permission. WRXU693

don’t get me wrong there are so many repeaters out hear but most of them are used for Amateur radio. I can hear them all the time and I can also hit those repeaters with my radio as well but I’m trying to reach them GMRS repeaters out hear

So I just hard the repeater on GMRS 22/repeater, is there a PL Tone to transmit to that repeater?

Do we know anyone around here with such a platform who might do that?

Streaming the YooToob on it. I can thumbs up/down things subscribe or save for later. All these things except comment. I'd have to add a keyboard but I use one at work most days so that's a non-starter. I rarely watch YT on either my phone (smarter than the TV) or on my home Laptop (it's normally trying to contact those random men out there)

That TV does not sound like it's smart.

And dead horse...

I noted that on your last video on a Wouxun HT! I was on my smart TV and couldn't comment on the precise nature of your verbiage! Although, I'm betting that "Certain Individuals" did leave some good ones worth reading?

Nothing brings out a pile up on the amateur bands like a YL calling CQ. At a local meet up last Saturday, of of the guys was bitching about Contesters using a YL to call the CQ Contest, and when he answered, "some dude replied, I wanted to talk to the girl!!!" Like it was false adverstising or sumtin... But back to the topic. I only need to know one callsign, mine. I can't think of the callsigns any of the friends I talk to on Simplex; I know a couple of their numbers, but it's so we can tell the 3 Joes apart. We ID on time and and when we complete a conversation, and that's it. And no phonetics. A couple of the guys, we still use their CB "handles" when calling them! I don't ever recall anyone on GMRS asking me my callsign.

to sticky the thread, right?

I'm taking this horse to the glue factory.

Fusion and D-Star are Ham specific digital modes. DMR is used on the Ham bands, but was initially, and primarily, designed for business uses. Other digital modes, primarily designed for business band usage, you're likely to to encounter on the Ham bands are NXDN (ultra narrow and narrow), P25 Phase 1 and dPMR (typically used on the business bands in the EU). There are a few others but are almost specifically used on trunking systems, TETRA and P25 Phase 2. So far I haven't found anywhere in the USA where dPMR is used, however I have some radios that will do that mode. The first radio I purchased used was from a US seller so somebody had used it, but the radio didn't have FCC certification, so it wasn't really legal to use on the business frequencies it had programmed into it when I read the radio on arrival before reprogramming for Ham use. https://forums.mygmrs.com/gallery/image/500-ic-f3162dt-front-and-back-sidepng/?context=new

When the operator has used the phonetic alphabet when giving their call sign for years on the Ham frequencies it gets to be a habit, and those users likely don't even think about it. Personally I don't care. The rules specify when and how to ID. So long as it complies with the rules, just have to get use to it. A few of my commercial HT's have the ability to ID using a builtin CW, Morse, code feature. Unfortunately it has to be manually initiated. If it was automatic on a timer I would use it and skip the voice ID. I'm sure that would irritate a few people. I've even thought about designing a small Arduino type ID'er that plugs into the mic port of the radio and does it on a timed basis using Morse code.

That figures. I frequently monitor the FRS/GMRS channels when out walking for exorcise. I rather routinely hear traffic from outside of the area when on the Detroit and Mt Clemens machines, so the linking is still on-going, just not publicly advertised. Everyone I've heard behaves themselves, ID's etc. and no crazy topics. You might even get bored monitoring the system. The weather reports are useful at times, particularly in the winter when it might be raining, or light snow, down south and blizzard conditions farther up north.

I think the issue lies with a person of used group who literally ties up every single repeater frequency so they can essentially prevent any possible new users from utilizing the service.

Be sure to listen without any RX tones or codes so you can hear what’s transmitted on each frequency. If you have the wrong code or tone on RX you’ll hear nothing. With no tones or codes you hear everything.

No way NYC is quite on GMRS with all those repeaters. Twice as many than Las Angeles and LA is a mad house zoo on GMRS...

There’s a database/map associated with this site that should help. Click on “Repeaters” on the top menu.

Probably quiet because of cell phones and internet, would be my guess.