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Yeah, this. Since the FCC's enforcement operation responds to complaints, the effect is that it operates in a "No harm, no foul" mode. As a taxpayer, I'm fine with that. I would be nice if the rules were formulated to regulate the results, not the process, but that's not where we are.

You asked why they’re resistant to disclosing the height of their antenna? Good job! What did they say?

I have asked.

There's no good reason to not publish height. If the repeater is using a directional antenna, the primary direction should be reported too. But even worse to me is not giving a general location for the repeater. Like height, being able to determine distance and bearing is fundamental to radio comms. Towers can't be hidden anyway so there's little if any additional threat from vandals by letting the users know where it is.

I actually have been in that station a few times.

Ask when you request access. Also, when testing, plan to drive closer to the repeater until you definitely know you’re hitting it.

It's not advice. It's a statement of the current reality. So long as you're not egregiously breaking the rules and interfering with others (...and even then...), they don't seem to give a care. hey quick question: ..........what?

Topographical maps for your area are Very useful for this !

Just curious why some repeater operators are resistant to disclosing how high their antenna(s) are. I guess you can hit it or you can't, but it can be useful to know sometimes if you want to know what is or isn't in the way. Say you're testing and know you should be hitting a given repeater but can't and you're trying to figure out if terrain is a factor. Just wondering.

Just don't feel like messing with these radios. They're getting sent back. I guess that low price for a GPS enabled radio WAS just Too Good to be True.

True true I’m still looking to see if perhaps there lock under some kind of PL tone.

So, I got the two 5RH Pro GPS radios today. I have the Baofeng programming software downloaded and running. Now for the issue, it can't read the radio. I tried my normal cable that works for all of my other radios and I tried the one Baofeng provided. It simply fails to read. Crazy thing is I can download a power on picture to the radio so I know the cable is plugged in properly and the radio is getting signal, it's just a No Go for reading or writing anything else to the radio. I really don't want to program all the channels by hand using the front panel since when I did try and wanted to name the channel it was all Chinese letters. Anyone else have these radios and having issues like this? Also, CHIRP is no help since this radio it too new to be supported. Anyway, I'm going to do more research and watch some YouTube videos to see if I can figure this out and if any of ya'll come up with anything please let me know. Thanks.

You Lucky Dog It's Station 127 I wanted to go to LA for the 50th Anniversary in January, 2022, but they postponed it, when I found out the rescheduled date, it was already sold out :(

I drove by the Station in Carson everyday I was working that was used as Station 51 in both the pilot and the weekly episodes. I don't remember the actual Station Number.

I still remember the originals, right from the pilot movie :-)

Does the radio work on other repeaters? That is as good as a watt meter for testing if the repeaters are similar distances away or the one that does work is farther.

One other thought... Chirp has a Settings tab at the top. And several pages listed on the left. If certain important settings are wrong there, it can block transmit.

Thanks to WRMN250, WSBM443, WRXS569, WSGW884, WSCY890, and a late check-in (on the Gallatin repeater) WSAT493 for participating in the 7/16/25 net. Yall rock. The more we can connect, the better we can become.

Hmmm, using unlocked radios could be RAM - Rogue HAM DMR....hmmm....thinking....tick,tick

I really appreciate you guys, thanks a million!

Thanks very much. I will try to reach the owner of that repeater to confirm further.

I don't have a Tidradio. Someone who does could answer better.

So you have two radios, neither of which can transmit to that repeater... So, its very simple: Tone is wrong Channel/frequency is wrong You're too far from the repeater Repeater is offline I'm out.

According to the listed info on this sight, I have confirmed tone. LOL

Yes, same problem! I have transmitted between the two radios on a simplex channel miles away and the both work just fine.