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Decades ago, FCC initiated an order to what was called "Frequency Refarming" of frequencies which involved narrowing frequencies to create more public safety channels and that order along with the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 caused the initiating of another order that required the Television industry to move off of some of their allocated channels to free up bandwidth for public safety. Public Safety Radio Inoperability became a major goal for the Federal Government at that time.

Just leave the receive tone out, or set the squelch mode to tone or whatever it requires to disregard the repeater output tone.

The main reason why the migration to digital and encryption is because of over-the -air broadcasting of private information suchas, names and birthdates, and drivers license numbers and license plates information, from States law enforcement Data Bases like CLETS in California and the nationwide law enforcement NCIC data base. If my memory serves me right this requirement for encryption began sometime around 2005 by the Federal DOJ and/or FBI, and some States years later also made it a mandate for the various State Law Enforcement agencies to encrypt the private information if it was going to be broadcasted over the air.

I'm trying to set up my ID-5100A to access a couple of local GMRS repeaters that have different Tx and Rx DPL tones. The radio has had the MARS mod. The radio firmware has been updated to the latest version, E3, and all is working well in that regard. I'm using the RT Systems software along with their cable to program the radio. Everything seems to be working except for the repeaters that require the different DTCSS codes in and out. I've tried the iCom manual and have looked at the RT Systems help videos. It appears this radio is not capable of doing both? At least using the RT Systems software, it will not allow me to enter both tones. If anyone has any suggestions or found a solution to this, I'd really appreciate hearing what that is. I'm pretty much a newbie at programming a radio, so I may well have missed something. Any thoughts?

Let me know, partner

NOAA was working perfectly for me and I didn't notice any interruption of signal. I don't even think it is possible as they have to many redundancies built in.

I will share my experience as soon as mine arrives.

Someone with Retevis RT97L Experience?

Hi, I have one, it works very well only that the power in duplexes drops to 5.7 watts but if you achieve a good height it can reach you up to 20 miles. I'm also looking into the RT97L retevis to see if it transmits 25 watts, I'm thinking of putting a second repeater to see if it works for me.

SOCAL with Bigger issues Again !!

I wasn't going to go there ... I'm a nice guy usually .

Transmitter Maintenance or a broken link from NOAA.

YOU ... ARE such a Moron, but then you already KNOW this.

Pretty much the name of any bill is the exact opposite of what it actually will do.

It won't impact the cost of radios as much as you may think. The tariff is collected on the value of the item at the port of entry. That $30 radio is probably only worth $6 on the dock. Most of the expense is in transport, advertising, handling, etc. A 25% tariff would mean that $30 radio went up to $31.50. Even a TYT TH-9800 probably is only worth $50-60 at the dock, meaning it would go up from $240 to $253. I think most of us will complain just a little and go right on buying radios.

A lot of police radios used to be "2-way not 3-way". Dispatch would transmit on frequency A and receive on frequency B. All the units' radios would transmit on frequency B and receive on frequency A. Dispatch could hear and talk to everyone, but the field units could only hear and talk to dispatch. It helped keep down confusion. Typically, there were a couple of "tactical" frequencies on which the units could talk directly to one another. I don't know what they do now with all the new and different radios. I've been out of law enforcement for almost 40 years. I could see where a business with a number of field units might find something similar useful. Otherwise, I can't think of a practical use for that capability. It's interesting to contemplate, though.

well, apparently the 'big pussh' to get things transitioned by end of 22 was to qualify for federal grants under the Public Safety Act which paid for almost 80% of the cost Cities and Counties had to incur. And you're right, after doing a little google research, the Puplic Safety Act was a mandate to move television from analog to digital. So the next the question, why the hell did that act provide grants to provide money for radio communications. No i did not read the entire bill, but i sure somewhere deep in there will provide that answer.. This is another reason i always note NO on aall Propositions and Measures. You always end up voting something just the opposite of what you thought. Pretty amazing that every city and county in the country didn't take advantage of of this bill.

Not exactly progress in my book. But it's a start. Got the tracking # for the antenna and waiting for the cable to be shipped. I assume a few days for that to be assembled since I'm having the ends put on it. And then the big wait for the bucket truck to become available for my use.

Nice!! now you're making progress.

This is a common problem when you don't set your time zone to your location and leave it set to Beijing.

If he's that worried then consult this site for the status of various NOAA weather stations. https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages

Stop with the negativity. We all know that you are just a hateful rude person with no friends. You really need to pull your head out of your forth point of contact and then see a doctor so that your headspace and timing can be reset. And to answer why someone would want to listen to the NOAA channels, the internet might go out during a bad storm or the person might be somewhere that there is no internet or cell service.

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