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Also, it is a great feature so that you do not have to use another channel position in the radio for a simplex or mobile-to-mobile with the same freq and tone settings.

Utah VHF Society (band plan manager for Utah; utvhfs.org) lists 429 repeaters. Of those, 292 use tones, and 137 do not. There are, from what I can tell, 29 tones used by those 292 repeaters, with the most common being a simple 100.0. There doesn't seem to be any specific rhyme or reason other than obvious things like most (but not all) of the Intermountain Intertie linked repeaters using the same tone. There's no pattern other than the sometimes-used concept of "similar things should be [conveniently] similar", as in the example of the Intertie network. There's a pretty good explanation for why you might see a pattern. Humans seek patterns in random events due to apophenia, a common cognitive tendency to find meaning and order in randomness, which is rooted in an evolutionary advantage for survival. For our ancestors, a false positive in pattern recognition (seeing a predator in random leaves) was safer than a false negative (failing to see a real predator). This brain mechanism makes it easier to process information and make quick inferences, though it can lead to errors like misinterpreting data or believing in conspiracy theories. (Explanation came from AI, which is probably ironic)

I believe the main function of talk around is to determine if repeater users you hear are close enough for you to establish simplex comms instead of using the repeater.

We should schedule a 0700 breakfast meet up at the County Hospital cafeteria! We need to wear hats with our call signs and or favorite PT t-shirt. LoL

Might be a regional thing, like around here> A common one for many of the local 2m repeaters in the TC area of MN is 114.8. a couple exceptions but I'd say about 85-90% or more here are using 114.8.

I would state you are clueless about TP Ethernet but that would just make the south end of a north bound donkey brilliant. I've only been around computers and computer-to-computer communications for more than 50 years. It's not connectors or cable that define networking, it's the signals present on those wires and connectors.

One of the guys I talk to at the gym had his done I think at the beginning of July. I'm waiting to see if he starts back at the gym. I expected he would be out for at least 2 months for rehab. My knee rehab sucked until I got back to a regular gym work out. The exorcise bike and working on leg strength worked wonders. I think I made more progress in a few weeks than a few months at PT.

I've had a hip joint replaced, but recovery from that wasn't actually too bad. Hopefully, I'll never need a knee replacement.

Well, SouthEast Repeater Association (the TN coordination body) has recommended tones. 100.0 is the common, and if you are on the edge of TN middle and TN east, what you notice is on purpose......

Montana has 145 ham repeaters: One 10 meter, no tones Two 6 meter, no clear pattern Eighty 2 meter, majority 100 Hz tone Two 220 MHz, no clear pattern Fifty-nine 70 cm, majority 100 Hz tone One 900 MHz, no clear pattern I don’t detect any pattern other than the vast majority of 2 meter and 70 cm use 100 Hz in this state.

Most of the 2M repeaters in my area use 162.2 as their CTCSS, the 1.25M seem to use 156.7 and the 70cm use 100.0 for their CTCSS. I guess my 'Tisim saw a pattern in this and wondered if anyone else noticed.

Yeah, wait until your knee gives out and have it replaced. It makes the shoulder work look like a walk in the park.

@LeoG Thank you for you input. When I used my usb-c cable to plug into the programming port, it updated the firmware without my knowledge. The Od master page looked different, like the old page with my 1st h3. And it wouldn't load properly when I tried to open the page. and as the page was grayed out. I couldn't see much. But I was able to scroll thru the page and found the kill switch button, it was off. So now the phone is useless. I'm expecting a reply from tid on how to proceed. I did mention to them that I might go with a 10 watt radio. And I have been looking at a lot of other 10 watt radios, all with chinese names I can't pronounce . Will keep this updated. If I get something other than another tid, I'll let this page know before I delete it. Thanks to all who have commented. It is greatly appreciated... Crazy WSDX855 currently in Arnold, MO south of St. Louis

I have two radios that have remote Bluetooth headphone with built-in microphone. As long as I'm inside of a 35 ft bubble, both radios work really well and there's no wiring to do. I can literally just be walking around the house

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This thread is exactly the reason I recommend never using “Technical Discussion:” Now it is a popularity contest rather than an intelligent chronological discussion of the issues!

As it was explained to me, "Talk Around" is to be used when the repeater temporarily unavailable or has dropped out for "whatever reason." Using Talk Around on the MXT400 continues to use the simplex channel and any tone set, the repeater would have output on so, your group can continue to communicate but, without the use of repeater. In essence, the radio just drops the input signal to the repeater when you select Talk Around. This way the group does not have to swap channels or tones in absence of the repeater. So, to use the "Talk Around function" everyone in the group as to be, or get, into that mode in order to communicate. It's not like the leader of a pack in the woods is the only one to switch. All has to switch. My question for Midland also was, How do you get everyone to switch into a talk Around Mode" Past the word to the closest behind you. "Once, everyone goes into "Talk Around" mode you can stay in it or if the repeater come back, swap modes again to use the repeater.

I'll chime in on this too (thus turning it into an official ham rag chew, lol). I also went through this about seven years ago, full tear of the shoulder and a full and a partial for the wrist. The wrist still gives me the most grief. Physical therapy is key. It can be difficult but stick with it. Being carefull with it is a good call, I have found there are limits to what I can put the shoulder through and pushed it hard once last year and was sure I had F'd it up again, though it went back to it's new normal after a couple of weeks. I guess I'm not in my 20's anymore. Wishing you a good recovery. 73's

If you have the funds you could consider a second radio (you can never have too many, am I right) and maybe a switcher for the antenna cable. Just offering a different approach.

I'm going to say "Yes" but the splitter needs to be the type where all the oins go to the same place, as is pin 1 is the same on all 3 locations etc. Like I read in the comments there might be an impredence issue affecting the radio's modulation when keyed. You might want to think of some kind of bluetooth devise like the Uniden microphone, only problem there is they lack distance. 3's Greg