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I thought perhaps LEARN was an acronym for Lawrence Emergency Amateur Radio Network. He might be from Lawrence County.

The FCC doesn’t collect a physical station address for either amateur or GMRS. They’ve stated that a PO Box is fine.

I just recently purchase the KG-1000G+ and today we had our repeater net. After it was over I tasked the net master with some questions about performance of the radio. I did a 5, 20, 50 watt check into the repeater 21 miles out. He said R9 on all three. I assume that because I swapped from a 7.2dBi to a 9.8dBi antenna and swapped out some M&P hyperflex13 to 1/2" Heliax hardline. I always had a hard time getting into the repeater using 5 watts on the old setup. And then I asked about the microphone. I did a check basically kissing the mic, 6-8" away and 12-14" away. He said when I was at a foot he noticed the modulation tapering off. That 6-8" seemed best. With the KG XS20G+ I have to kiss the mic to get a good modulation out of it. My TD H3 has a far better modulation profile than the 20G. It also has an adjustable mic gain.

yea that’s me. Except I’ve never said anything about distance compared to trash. I have said toss that midland rugged woxoun over priced gimmicky junk in the trash. As well as the h3 hts that have a 50-75% fail rate and anything that needs a firm ware update. but I know reading and comprehension may be an issue for some as proofed by people asking super basic questions. now onto the op. Since gmrs is for friends and family while doing an activity. Do you have friends or family that you need to talk to while doing something? It’s not really for chatting with strangers men that call them selves queen.

He was talking about monitoring law enforcement for some reason, which has nothing to do with Gmrs.

I was gong to buy the Vic 20 but decided to use the credit card for the 64. I actually had more fun with the Commodore than the TRS80 or even the Apple..

Welcome to the forums. Only people in the Denver area are likely to be able to talk to you because of the distance limitations of GMRS. Your best bet would be to look at the map here to see what repeaters exist in your area and look at the clubs to see which ones are in your area.

Welcome to the exciting and dynamic world of GMRS! ... One word of warning: Be wary of the trolls here on the forum that tell you that you're doing everything wrong and "if your radio cant transmit 200 miles you should throw it into the trash can" ... He's just a rheet-hard, and other than him everyone here is pretty cool.

I worked at Radio Shack when I was in high school back in the TRS-80 Model 1/3 and CoCo days. I wrote a spreadsheet with VisiCalc (long before Excel or even Lotus) to track golf handicaps for a local golf course and we must have sold at least 50 Model III's to almost every golf course in So Cal just for that spreadsheet. About the coolest thing I can remember was the radio tech that tuned my 148GTL-DX when they first came out (early-mid 80's). He had a Commodore Vic 20 with a Kantronics interface connected to a HF rig decoding RTTY and CW on the fly. I just thought that was so cool - to hear/see radio Cuba (and it's propaganda) RTTY news on a CRT/TV without a teletype in real time made a impression in my early years that last until today.

Many HF antennas were made with twin lead wire from Radio Shack. And I still have a great set of Radio Shack Realistic speakers that still sound great after 40+ years. I have to agree with @SteveShannon, I would rather use a good quality 75 ohm coax over some cheap craptastic 50 ohm coax. I don't even like using the cheap Amazon or eBay coax for short jumpers even though loss is not a factor with such short lengths. The biggest issue I have is the lack of shielding in the cheap stuff.

Last trip to RS I needed some buss fuses. The girl didn't even know what a fuse was. She only sold phones. The electronic parts area was a mere shadow of what it once was and in disarray.

And if you had a Siltronix you really had bragging rights.

SWR was all we cared about and bragged about

Yep, who cared about coax quality for CB just as long as the SWR was good.

Back in the Radio Shack Days, i don't think there was to many people concerned with Coax quality.. Most of us use it for 10-11 meter stuff and it worked great.. RG58 was the norm for auto installs. The good ole' days

It was definitely a great place to hang out and get to play with all the goodies. Those were the good old days.

i started out with a Commodore 64, then a TRS 80, then an Apple and been with Apple since 1986. Although i do have a Windows 11 machine but seldom go to it.

Thanks for the compliment! And all this time I thought I was old and decrapitated. I agree, I think Tandy ruined Radio Shack. It was a downward spiral for decades. I always liked the catalogs back then. There's a site that has PDFs of every year they printed. From what I remember during my CB days back in the 70s, Radio Shack's RG8 was only offered with foam core and the braided shield was horrible. For CB we didn't care. I don't think any of us today would buy their cable since we have so many great options.

Someone mentioned intentionally using a former address.

I dont recall anyone talking about giving a false address? Dont exactly feel like reading back thru the entire thread to look either.... are you referring to those of us who choose to use (or are forced to use by landlords like myself, whose landlord refused to allow mail delivery to my apartment complex, because the local post office will "give you a free box") My legal mailing address is my po box, and it wouldnt matter what address is listed for my "station" since 99.9% of the time i am transmitting either mobile from my vehicle, or at work on a handheld, as i live right on the edge of the reach for the local repeater....

Hi all, I would like someone to talk to and show me the ropes.

I had the TRS 80 along with the huge 40 MB hard drive. I had to format it by hand by swapping out two 5 1/4" floppies. Took forever and I didn't think it would ever end. Also played with a computer in school that we programmed with punch cards. And after that played with the 8080 computer chip.

Dancing Demon changed the computer world forever...

I used RS as a place to by electronic components for the most part. Hung out there for a few years as the manager like the company. We were practically employees at one point. Don't actually remember where I got my 1st base station antenna and coax.