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I talked 2,039 miles om my HT, from DC to Sonora, Mexico. It was through a repeater on a satellite about 250 miles in the air, but hey....still counts. There are no restrictions on putting a GMRS satellite in orbit. We should start a crowd-funded account to make that happen.

[Emphasis added] It's "that time" here in Hurricane Central and I've found enough people in the neighborhood interested in radio that the next step is using my mobile setup in a base configuration, to be set up after a storm event. If it works well the community would probably support a repeater at some point. Does anyone make a simple, portable mast system for radio? We've all seen the flagpole, painters' pole bubble-gum-and-bailing-wire assemblies, and I've run into some interesting ideas for photographers, but nothing built for radio. I suppose a painters' pole attached to tilting base would work, but the only such bases I've found are for a full three-pole mast. I could always piece something together, but it would be nice if someone offered a simple solution. Have I missed it, or is the market simply too small? No way I'm putting up something permanent only to watch it get blown down. Not gonna happen.

You're not a scammer. So good for you!

It's on the Zello website https://support.zello.com/hc/en-us/articles/36830119152397-2025-Service-Changes Depending on what they charge I think I would pay for it. It's an outstanding service for our Community

Where did you find this information? Only asking because I didn't see anything on their blog mentioning it. Thanks.

Went and poked around on their website and found this. Is that just a rebadged $30 UV88 (also the basis for the Radioddity GM-30)? I'm in the wrong line of business.

https://zello.com/downloads/desktop/ I can't download it right now on the work PC but I don't know if that download is for the free version or a paid version.

Oh yeah, super easy. All you need is a DM-5R and then build yourself a Pi Star hotspot and connect over the internet to a DMR node across the country and - wait what do you mean that's cheating?

Guess we gotta up our game on our boofwang handhelds.....just saw this on facebook today....

I wouldn't be too afraid of that. Pretty sure you would have to read and understand the manual or find the right YouTube video. Probably as likely as randomly hitting the tone by guessing.

i haven't got one of thse yet. i do have a few radios where you have to initiate a process to discover tones...

We have a channel 1 gmrs CW identifier that seems to be super common. I think it’s bleed over from another channel or band but I’m not certain, it is very loud and clear. Sounds like a repeater on ID every so often. You could be close to someone who is using CW id that is on a different frequency (dunno) using a radio that transmits “unclean” power

Sounds like that may just bring the unlicensed, non-radio folk, one step closer to getting onto local repeaters... welcome or not. Modern GMRS radios in the hands of "FRS type" users will no doubt continue to blur the lines between the two services.

Make an audio recording of the CW and upload here to decode. https://morsecode.world/international/decoder/audio-decoder-adaptive.html

Channels 1-7 are the 462 MHz Interstitial channels and channels 8-14 are the 467 MHz Interstitial channels.

AFAIK, they'd hidden/removed the install file for either the PC version or the free version for PC awhile ago, so not entirely surprising. I still had a copy installed and working, but it looks like they're shrinking access to the free side of things....not that I had access to much anymore anyway.

A lot of new radios have automatic tone ID. If both tones are the same, they only need to be within receiving range of the repeater. If the tones are different (or only input), they would have to be within range of someone transmitting to the repeater, but it is automated these days. No longer necessary to just quess.

Yeah, my truck has crap for ground plane and the 2x4 doesn't like it, but on the roof of my car, it has spectacular SWRs on GMRS, MURS, 2 meters, 70 centimeters, and even 1.25 meters. Yes, 1.25 meters. I don't know how well it will actually perform on 1.25m, but I intend to find out. SWR is well below 2.0:1, so it shouldn't hurt the radio. I also have a Comet SBB224 which is officially a tri-band (2m, 1.25m, 70cm) antenna and it approaches but does not cross 2.0:1 on GMRS. It also needs a ground plane, so it will go on the car if the 2x4 is weak on 1.25m. Or maybe even if it isn't. IDK I can't find any single antenna that will give me all the bands I want with the lousy ground plane on my truck so I ended up adding a dedicated 1.25m radio and antenna in addition to a GMRS/2m/70cm/MURS radio and antenna. Add the CB radio and antenna, and my truck kinda looks like a spaceship. The car is going to get a tri-band radio/antenna and a second NMO mount so I can stick on a CB antenna when I get the whim.

Record it and post it here. Someone will decipher it. (Still not me )

You can get a smartphone app to decode CW. Not sure if leaving it running for hours would be a problem. I don't know if mine eats up storage space or just overwrites the same small amount of memory so I only let it run for a few minutes. Works better in a quiet room.

To fast for me to ident... maybe 4 numbers/letters. Only happens every few hours.

It would have had to be channel 7 since channels 7-14 are the interstitial channels at 467 MHz.

I have heard a Station ID on one of the Interstitial channels before. I believe the channel was either 6 or 7.

It could be anything. What does the Morse code say?

Channel 6 in GMRS is limited to 5 watts Max. 462.6875