All Activity

MyGMRS.com remembers me when I go to just the MyGMRS.com page, but forgets me if I go to any of the forum pages. It wants me to log in again and insists on dumping me into the new account.

I've been a user on MyGMRS.com for well over a decade, although I went a few years without using it more than once or twice. A couple of months ago I got back into being more active and using both the radio and this website more often. Last night I was googling something and one of the links happened to be a post here. It was from a bit less than a year ago -- not really ancient, but not new either. I started to enter a reply on one of the comments and the site prompted me to log in. I started to log in and the site treated me as a new user. Now MyGMRS.com seems to have two separate accounts with the same display name and the same email address.

That is why the 45 was discontinued by Kenwood and they only make the 45D. Anyone selling a 45 might be selling NOS (new old stock) or it could be a clone Either way the 45 being cheaper isn't surprising.

I ordered a Nagoya 320a to try out. I'll put it on my best radio(AR-5RM #3, see my power test video in Armature Radio section.) to see how it works.

M$ screwed up with forcing a move to a tablet type interface on newer versions of Windows. Win10 is "tolerable", have it on the work computer, company laptop and home PC. I needed it on the home PC because the Kenwood license manager for their feature license installation won't work on Win7, which I would still be using otherwise, it was close to the look and feel of Win XP. The Win11 I have in a VM for experimentation sucks. It's slow and and nothing more more than a advertising delivery system for M$ garbage. I've flipped every "switch" I could find and researched on-line, but I sill get annoying reminders, here and there, to get M$ Office 365 and cloud services. Win11 is the new Vista, and much more annoying.

I did tell JK that if he heads down under, he could work it as PLOTA Porta-Loo OTA...

That is part of why I got into amateur radio, but not the only thing. I do enjoy having chats with people I know in my area. I also enjoy getting on local repeaters and chatting when I'm taking a trip. It's not the only thing I enjoy about it, but if some folks want to use it for only that, I don't mind. Occasionally, I get a bit bored listening to a couple of guys talk about their medical problems or sports, but I can always turn it off.

This radio was a bit more expensive, GBP 90. I had it shipped from the UK through eBay's international system. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126800820122?var=427899179724 I had to get it before the "de minimus" tariff exception for goods under $800 disappears on 8/29/2025. Otherwise it would be a ridiculous price with the minimum tariff required. No more shopping for stuff outside the USA on eBay anymore. https://www.avalara.com/blog/en/north-america/2024/11/de-minimis-exemption-changes-coming.html

Reminds me of the Cotre C001D DMR HTs that were briefly available from Amazon for $17 and actually worked!

When Macs switched to Intel, I sucked my licensed copy of Windows XP out of SoftWindows and with its proper serial number, installed it into Bootcamp and Parallels to this day on my remaining Intel Macs.

I've been hoping someone would put a repeater up in Charleston...kinda surprised there are none in the area

Correct. The difference is the -45D has additional internal filtering for use on DMR radios. Otherwise they are basically the same.

I use the HAMRS app for logging my POTA contacts. HAMRS will automatically upload my POTA logs to the POTA website and to my QRZ logbook. I log into the POTA website to spot myself along with see sign who else is working POTA. I try to work park to park as much as possible. And I will answer POTA stations when at home to help them active the parks.

Hopefully someone who's done POTA activations can chime in with the software side of things. I know of pota.app which lets you spot activators (report their location and frequency so others can try to contact them) but AFAIK logging is done with whatever software you want as long as it outputs ADIF. I've used kiwisdr to listen in on activations. Sounds fun.

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing you!

@Northcutt114 if you're not against climbing some hills, you might also look into SOTA, Summits On The Air. I don't have a portable rig yet but I just ordered a QCX-mini today. I'm hoping to do some SOTA this fall when I go out to west Texas. It appears that there is 5 summits on the ranch where I go.

Welcome to the forums!