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I've never had it happen, but I only just now posted my repeater as "open" so it's possible. I've been listening to all the repeaters in my area for months, though, and I haven't heard anyone being abusive, so I decided to risk it.

Have you tried to talk to anyone on that repeater? Just because you can open up a repeater does not mean you have a strong enough signal for others to hear you clearly. We have one guy that uses a hand held radio connected to a 6 inch Midland MXTA51 antenna mounted in the center of his Cherokee roof. He can often open the repeater but his signal is not strong enough for us to actually hear him.

I drove around the block and it still would not work at that distance. The HT can talk to the Midland mobile however. So it receives just fine. But the HT is not hearing the Tx from the mobile even at distance. Midland is researching the problem with their engineers now.

The encryption is AES256, providing the radio has the entitlement. I do not need anything special to load the key into my XPR5550e and XPR7550e radios. I just enter the encryption key with the CPS. The key I have to use is well over and I mean alot well, over 50 characters.

Yes, all you need to do is disallow them use and you are done. After that the illegality is on the person who shouldn't be using the repeater. Maybe not illegality but regulatory, less harsh a word.

Shaw Butte is still on the air, at least it is IDing. Either the Station is not repeating or the input tone has changed. The input tone Towers 600 has also changed. Towers 575 appears to be back on the air for now.

Pretty sure they won't. Seems they are interested in the big boyz such as commercial broadcast and emergency use radio being abused by people not allowed on those frequencies. Otherwise they'd be one hell of a busy agency cracking down on all sorts of things like non use of IDing, wrong use of part ?? radios on part ?? use only bands etc.

One way to keep others from using your repeater is to use different input and output tones. Radios will only scan the output tones of other repeaters/radios. But even that is not fool proof. We all know you can't stop someone from using a frequency/channel as no one owns them. Using different tones and/or shutting your repeaters down when you are not using them helps keep others from using your repeater. Our club has sent out cease and desist letters in the past. Knock on wood, those letters has kept most ID10T's from using our repeaters. One particular ID10T has been told to stay off just about every area 2m and 70cm repeater in the area. He has received letters from at least 3 repeater owners. Again this is not fool proof either. A person would have to aggressively cause interference/jamming your repeaters before the FCC will even think about looking into the issue. And good luck getting the FCC to actually do anything about it.

With radios capable of scanning for and picking up tones, there's literally no way to keep someone off your repeater unless you just keep it a secret. I can't imagine FCC or anyone else would consider you responsible if you've taken appropriate steps to notify someone they're not allowed to use it.

I know that, but as you say, it's good to put it out for people to see. It would be extremely bad form to add a repeater you don't own.

Then it seems like you already had the official answer to this question. The FCC does not require a person to seek permission before using a repeater.

I personally filed a complaint a few years ago. They told me it wasn't a rule violation unless the person was transmitting in such a way that they were causing harmful interference. No such harmful interference was occurring, so the FCC opted not to take any action. They told me that it was up to me to resolve any access control issues. That's the very reason why the two repeaters located at my house are always off unless I plan on using them specifically. I got tired of a troublemaker causing problems for me.

This section confirms my opinion, putting the responsibility of stopping undesired access on the owner. It doesn't say other licensees need permission.

Welcome to the forum! None of us have ever necroed an old thread!

Has anyone complained to the FCC about prohibited persons using their repeater? If we don’t know of any such complaints then we don’t know if FCC would enforce the rule. Someone has to complain before the FCC will respond and their first response is required to be a letter usually. But I agree that the FCC has not enforced the rule.

I had 0 problems with programming my DM-1701 for the brief time I owned it. Link for me the CPS that you are using. How did you find it? Was it included in the box; I suspect not. What computer do you use? Which flavor of Windows? If you get this frustrated with programming, working with DMR programming will not get better. With all due respect, you need to take a few deep breathes, relax and give it more than 2 hours for help to arrive!

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Well, the radio is going back to Amazon. I'm not going to try to fight with it to get it to work with the CPS. I've tried a couple different cables, installed drivers, did everything I could think of including trying other CPS programs but it just won't read. If I can't read it I can't program it. I'm going to go with my first choice, the RT-4D and see if that'll work. If it doesn't then it'll go back too.

The fact that the FCC has not enforced it in the last 15 years says otherwise.

(1) Shall determine specifically which individuals, including family members, are allowed to operate (i.e., exercise operational control over) its GMRS station(s) (see paragraph (c) of this section); 3) May disallow the use of its GMRS repeater by specific persons as may be necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this section. Kind of seems like they are. That’s my take on it for whatever good it may do.

Ok, so the CPS isn't reading the radio. I tried my chipped cable(which I'm told isn't going to work with a digital radio) and the factory supplied cable. I installed the drivers for the standard USB programming cable but the odd thing is that the CPS doesn't give me the option of a COM Port to pick from. Normally I use COM5 but there's no picking the COM port so I just get an error message and can't connect to the radio. The cable IS pushed in all the way and short of unplugging everything usb from my computer I have no clue as to what to do. Any ideas?

Being a newbie, I apologize. I'm here to learn and my comments were out of place. Hopefully i can continue to visit this forum and learn.

Well, travel the 3300 miles and bring it on

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Being a newbie, I apologize. I'm here to learn and my comments were out of place.