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Update: This is on every Thursday at 1900 hrs. 700 is the strongest local repeater -- good for ~35 miles.

Woxoun kg-1000,Daiwa CN-901V…… You forgot to name drop your coax…. Or give a model number to the diamond antenna glad I don’t worry about swr. I just buy good antennas and run it. I’ve got better things to do then spend time watching my swr meter. But any one that spends $400 on a radio and another $250 on an swr meter and who knows what on an antenna has issues anyway. I’d bet cheap coax and junky antenna has something to do with it. for $650 a can set up 3 50w base stations that radiate over 550w with 200mile range. And all with no swr meter or silly questions to a stranger group of man-queen worshipers.

the Daiwa is kind of a funky meter, Don't use the P.E.P. and try.

My wife was super impressed. She might be ready for an amateur license some day. We had an interesting announcement about the state patrol. I thanked some people way ahead of me, but there was no way for me to exceed the limit. I did tell me to look at a mountain range off to the left and the view was amazing. Nice people along the way.

Hmm, I didn't know that those anonymous people types do that in basements. We don't have basements in Cactusland. That must be what they do in Tornado Land.

Are you sure the jumper cable to the meter isgood? Can you use a double female SO-239 in place of the meter to see if things return to normal. If they do, then something is wrong with the meter. If not, then possibly a bad jumper cable.

I have a Wouxun KG1000G+ with power supply that I am using as a GMRS base station with a Diamond vertical on the roof of my house. Transceiver connected direct to the antenna works perfectly. I just put a Daiwa CN-901V SWR/PWR meter in line and the meter is not showing any output power and it seems to be attenuating both the receive and transmit signal significantly. The meter is brand new, out of the box. I checked the obvious, radio to meter input, meter output to antenna, and 13.8VDC applied to the meter. But with the radio set to 50 watts output the Daiwa CN-901V shows nothing. What could be wrong aside from a defective brand-new meter?

I think that the nursing home took the hint and changed to a different channel, I haven't heard them on channel 17 for about a week now. I decided to talk to another guy on channel 17 one day and we are both using 50 watt radios. I'm sure we were blasting their FRS radios.

We have been happy with the RC-210 that is currently controlling our 2m repeater. One of the two controllers will be getting a temperature sensor so we get warnings when the shed gets too hot or too cold. We found out that the Motorola Quantar repeaters do not like the heat. The current controller also monitors our battery backup system and announces when everything is running on battery backup.

Think of all the fun that could be had if someone handed out some cheap FRS radios to the patients at the nursing home…

Exactly the way I'ding is suppose to be. BTW,, the RC-210 is a nice versatile controller. I saw a 3D case on Makers World for this board.

I don't care for any repeater doing that. We are going to use an Arcom RC-210 controller for our GMRS and 70cm repeaters. We are going to set the controller to ID every 15 minutes but ONLY when there is actually people using the repeater. I just finished assembling the RC-210 board and am waiting on the case and real time clock. Then it will be time to program it. And we will definitely have the repeater ID since it is open to the public.

We used them recently with three RVs on a road trip. Sure beats trying to set up a conference call or a group text.

Hey, how'd you know I'm in my underwear?

Personally, i think the guy's id'ing every 15 mins on the hour is no different than a dog pissing on tires.

You mean "radio dorks in thier underwear in thier parents basement"

A.K.A. "Anonymous People"

I highly suggest a quick phone call to Comet, they are very friendly and will answer your question. My guess is use it if it makes you sleep better at night.

Part 95.1751 (c) Any GMRS repeater station is not required to transmit station identification IF: (1) It retransmits only communications from GMRS stations operating under authority of the individual license under which it operates; and, (2) The GMRS stations whose communications are retransmitted are properly identified in accordance with this section.

They do that at the local nursing home close to me. I thought about noting the names used, and Calling their Admin and reminding them of the Hippa Rules. Maybe their use on Gmrs would go away.

Nothing wrong with talking to Other operators either ... Your so-called "Strangers"!

Yes. For sure. Skiing, biking, camping, and moving. We get a lot of good use out of them.

Great to hear. That’s what it’s for. I would not have figured you would have needed or wanted to use repeaters since it wasn’t a place you lived, worked or played. Gmrs is a tool. Gmrs is Not a way to meet strangers.

The question was never “what do you want us to do?” The question is “How can we simplify the regulations or get rid of unnecessary regulations.” Almost all of the suggestions in this thread actually increase the complexity of the regulations.

My wife and I are making an interstate move and it was great to have a radio in a Penske truck and one of our cars. In addition, we have two handheld radios. That made backing up the truck with a car carrier so much easier! She could direct me when I backed out of our original home. Along the way, she could pull behind me and let me know if there were any trailer stability issues at higher speeds. After a few hours, I had my wife drive the speed limit while I drove at a slower rate (trailer limit). We had some awesome range in Eastern Oregon. We had great range as she pulled away. Our radios have repeater capabilities but we kept them on a simplex channel. We said our goodbyes as she pulled away from the line of site. A few hours later, I caught up at the hotel. We have been long users of GMRS, and the service was awesome for the move. we hope that others get great use out of GMRS.