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Another good reason to get a HAM license. We're covered up in 2M and 70cm repeaters in my area and there's quite a few 1.25M repeaters as well.

It was the half ball 15" running OS X. A lightning strike came through the DSL(I had the computer on a surge protector but not the DSL line)and fried it. After that I had a Win8 laptop for a week until my wife picked up a virus on it so we returned it and I bought a couple used laptops and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it and I've been using Linux of one flavor or another ever since.

Who are we kidding here - IMHO, the whole darn GMRS thing is on the honor system. Unlicensed FRS shares channels with GMRS and just by listening nobody knows what type of radio you are using, if it is FCC type certified, or if you should be ID'ing with a GMRS license call sign, how high your antenna is, etc. etc. The lack of FCC rule enforcement sort of suggests that they think it's the honor system too! As for the OP question - It would be ethically courteous and respectful if you asked for permission, but permission being needed or required seems legally ambiguous on public airwaves, owned by none, available to all licensed GMRS users, and only regulated by FCC rules which (unlike Amateur Radio) fail to expressly address this issue. As for the comparison to trespass on real property, use of a radio repeater without permission could be categorized as Constructive Tresspass at best, and articulating harm is tricky unless the trespasser were monopolizing the repeater use or engaged in some other flagrant FCC rule violation. For all practical purposes, like it or not, if you put your repeater on a public GMRS channel/frequency, you should probably expect that the public is going to use it. You can make it inconvenient by not publishing the input tones or that the repeater even exists at all, but that is about as good as it will get. * It is like putting up your own private volleyball net on a public beach and expecting that when you are not using it, the public won't use it or that someone else's ball won't intentionally or unintentionally go over your net. Don't like it - take your net down! The FCC says that the repeater owner “may disallow the use of its GMRS repeater by specific persons as may be necessary” but the only remedy that the owner really has is to turn the repeater off as needed to restrict its use. Constantly changing tones and codes is a PITA and may be a futile game of cat and mouse. Another way to look at that specific FCC language might be for the purpose of clarifying that the repeater owner has no duty to provide that repeater to the public and that if/when the repeater owner changes the tones or turns the repeater off, for any reason, the owner is not violating anyone else's right of public use. IOW, don't file a complaint with the FCC because someone else turned their repeater off, because we don't care! I think it is to a large extent a delusional exercise in mental masturbation for a repeater owner to assert private use of their equipment when they have configured that equipment to operate on frequencies licensed for public GMRS use. CTCSS and DCS tones and codes create operational isolation between radios in close proximity, but the use of such tones or codes does not constitute any form of exclusivity. If you really need or want some form of radio privacy, get a Business or LMR license and put your repeater on those restricted license frequencies where you have a reasonable expectation of the private use of your equipment... I offer my opinion free of charge, and it is worth every penny!

I think some members here did not read your recent post where you indicated you have autism. I recognized your "style" of response immediately and was not offended by it, considering your history...

That’s interesting. I always run Windows in Parallels on my Mac(s), Bootcamp before that and SoftWindows when it was PPC before Intel. I did not mean to mislead you by recommending the DM-1701, but I have no experience with Linux What was your last iMac OS X; Snow Leopard?

At this time, it is unknown if the Repeat function is disabled or if there was an input tone change. We just need to exercise patience to see what the repeater owner is going to do.

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This is just an "I think"... but I am pretty sure property rights can't possibly apply in this situation. Someone is not taking physical possession or control of the radio. The owner of the radio is in possession of the radio and the radio is doing exactly what the owner of the radio programmed the radio to do. A person nor business does not have the right to not receive open-air radio transmissions on their receiver. Its just not possible. The airways are open to the public. Saying "you can't transmit transmit in 467.700 with a tone of 146.2 because I don't want to hear you on my receiver" is the equivalent of calling iHeartMedia and telling them the need to stop broadcasting because you don't want to hear them on your AM/FM radio. They will just laugh at you and hangup. And that is if they are nice about it. Now, if iHeartMedia has a transmitter that is malfunctioning and causing harmful interference to a device you own, now you have some grounds to at least start having a conversation.

Many of these cheep chinese radios and their software/drivers barely work on the intended system (windows), let alone a fast pace changing debian core. You may be out of luck if you have no access to windows.

I didn't take it as such. It's just many assume that everyone runs Windows. If folks would read their EULA they'd never install it on their system because you're basically giving MicroSoft total control of your computer to add or delete any software that they want. I've been very happy with MX-Linux 23.3 which is a Debian Stable based op system (same as the ISS uses)with the KDE desktop environment so it's not only light weight(less than 500 Meg to run) but it's also highly customizable so you can make it look and feel just the way you want it to be.

The FCC cannot bring or prosecute any criminal action or case. If a criminal action has occurred, for example maliciously interfering with emergency services, the FCC may help locate/find the person but it is it is up the local/federal jurisdiction to prosecute the crime. and, just to be clear, using my repeater without my permission is in no way a criminal activity, no matter how big of an imagination you have.

See attached file. Copy over the "cpservices xx.dll" in the zip file with the one for the region you want. For example for North America copy the "cpservices NA.dll" file over to the "****\Motorola\MOTOTRBO CPS" folder as "cpservices.dll" overwriting the original file. I would recommend you just change the name of the original file in case of a mistake. Password-Regionpatch CPS 16 Build 828.zip

My asking you a simple question should not be seen as a challenge to you personally.

In which case, it would be out of the FCC's hands as they do not, and cannot prosecute criminal matters.

Not for the last 13+ years and before that it was an iMac for 10 years. The last Windoze system I used for any length of time was Win98.

First, they send you a mean letter.. Then, if you ignore that letter.. They'll send you another one.. Then, after a year.. or more, they will issue an "apparent notice of liability" which means they say you owe them money - its like a fine, but with no real teeth.. Then, after you appeal or ignore that, after another year.. or.. two.. they issue an "affirmation of notice of liability" which means they say you still owe them that money.. Then.. when you ignore that.. after a year.. or two.. they must submit the case to the Department of Justice for them to sue you and get an actual court-order. To my knowledge, in the last 15 years, this has never happened for a CB/HAM/GMRS infraction. And there are still a couple of people that got "fines" 10 or 20 years ago that have still never paid.

Ahh, thanks. I thought you were on windows. Are most of the people having issues connecting to dm1701 radios using Linux?

GNU/Linux doesn't use a Device Manager. The programming cable has always shown up at COM Port 5. Works every time with every CPS I've used. I've got CPS's for AR/UV-5RM, K61, BF-F8HP Pro, Yaesu FT-65r, BTech 20v2 and the Radtel RT-900 and RT-4D. CHIRP also works on COM5 for the UV-5R, UV-82 and Talkpod A36 Plus. Like I said, I know what I'm doing, it's the CPS/Radio that's the issue and it's not just me having the problem. Google "DM-1701 CPS not connecting to the radio." and see how many others are having the same problem.

This is essentially a private property rights issue, and the owner/operator of a privately owned and maintained repeater is entirely within their rights to grant or deny permission to use their property, the same as with any radio transceiver equipment. The licensed owner of any radio station is still responsible for monitoring and governing the transmission traffic according to the FCC regulations, as is anyone who transmits on the airwaves within US jurisdiction. Penalties for abuse can range from revocation of any license issued by the FCC to civil and/or criminal penalties depending on the nature of the offending behavior. Besides that, it is only a common courtesy to ask for permission to use someone else's private property.

Possibly, unless the rule violation is also a violation of the Communications Act, in which case it could be a felony. In general this explains the investigatory and enforcement authority for regulatory agencies: https://www.justia.com/administrative-law/enforcement-actions/

So the FCC would have to sue you? Because all of those things say "A Federal Court will..."

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Does Device Manager show the addition of a comm port when you plug in the chip cable or connect the non-chipset cable to the radio?

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-A/section-95.313

I've been thinking about this for awhile. How, exactly, would the FCC go about "enforcing" anything? They are a regulatory body, correct? The have no law enforcement powers so what would they do? Issue you a fine and then, after a certain time of you not paying it, turn it over to the local Sheriff? I don't see a way that the FCC can directly come after you, other than to revoke your callsigns and credentials.