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Doesn't sound like an issue. Sounds like that's the way it's designed.

One is dyslexic.

Omg 6HOURS without noaa? if we only had any other way to hear about the weather!!!! Maybe someone should invent a World Wide Web and put weather info on it!!!! Some times noaa goes down. Sometimes for hours sometimes for days. It happens. We just have to learn about the weather like people did 50, 100, 200…… years ago.

Try the other 6 NOAA frequencies? Without knowing where you are, we don't have any way to know what NOAA channel you SHOULD be hearing them on.

Hello, my Baofeng UV9G is set to 162.475 to listen to NOAA. I've heard nothing for the last hour. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thank You in Advance!

WRUU653 mentioned factory reset. Did you save the original programing file from the manufacturer? Or, read the working radio, save that file and clone the troublesome radio with that file.

Something in the 50s, yeah.

Yep, I think that’s the problem. I programmed it on 53 and then again on 55. It works on 53 but walked on 55.

this topic will get interesting.

Is GRMS different from GMRS school?

The "Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005" mandated that TELEVISION move from Analog to Digital, to free up space for public safety. It did not mandate that public safety move to digital. Either you misunderstood your friend or he is misinformed. Federal grants for new communications systems mandate P25. That doesn't mean a new DMR, NXDN or analog system can't be set up, it just means that system won't qualify for those grants. There is nothing "illegal" about analog or non-P25 digital public safetey radio systems.

pretty sure he said he was monitoring analog with a scanner. That does not meet the Digital Transition Act. Not claiming to be an expert on this, just relying on information from a friend who is a communications director for the state of calf.

Why? If they are using narrow band FM they’re OK. The government recommends P25 for communications across agencies etc. However I’ve seen more smaller departments going with NXDN since it was cheaper than P25. Plus they has little to no need to communicate with outside agencies.

an h3 with issues AGAIN!

Activating a known state or Federal Park in the US, that's already recognized as a POTA site.

You can program One commercial quality radio to do this.

Yes I am aware of that. I've seen clubs setup in Walmart parking lots during summer field day for the public exposure too.

Yes is it only a joke, most of the time. I will mess with friends on occasion that work at Walmart.

Isn’t that radio inhibited from transmitting above channel 54? Or am I thinking about a different radio?

No, there’s actually an event called “Walmart Parking Lots On The Air” where people operate from Walmart parking lots as a way of introducing people to ham radio. https://wmplota.org/

well sounds like some of them Hilly Billy's dropped the ball. Wanna have some fun, give their public safety communications director a call and ask why they are breaking the law.

I'm really hoping that's a joke.

I hear this near my work. Local metal processing Co. uses a lot of FRS radios, and in the morning, the lead foreman calls out channel assignments quite often; "Main Office is on 14 today, Receiving on 12, Production is on 5, QA on 3." But if you're talking using 2 simplex channels to work "split", also legal AFAIK. But you will need a dual watch radio or two radios to accomplish that!

Using the ODmaster app like I’ve always done on my TidRadio H3 I have programmed in two repeaters and when I hit the PTT button, I get the error tone like I’m trying to key up on a ham band. I’ve got it saved on channel 75. Same thing for a different repeater on channel 76. Channel 75 is program for Rx/TX on 462.650 and 467.650 and 76 is 462.725 and 467.725. Any idea as of why?

About the only time I use MURS is when I want to be ornery and mess with the Walmart workers by sending them on wild goose chases for spills in different isles.