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The funny thing is that if you enter this young man's name into the Google search engine, you can come up with a lot more information than just his address. Where he went to school, who his fellow students were, when he graduated, where he works, when he started, what his job title is, his baseball stats, his college activities, other business he's involved with, I mean this guy's life is an open book. And that was with about two minutes of searching. I'm not saying it's cool to put every GMRS license on a publicly accessible map without at least asking them, but let's be real... all someone needs is your name.

Around here (montgomery county maryland). Local municipality set up the radio system properly. Public service network on 800mhz. They could of gone with lesser equipment and use higher gain antenna. But chose to go with a mandate that required 98% coverage of the county with an ht. Yes this included in people's basements and in parking garages. What they needed up with was a 2 site simulcast system. It is one of the best systems in the country. I have used the harris xg100m and a g5 unification in some absurd locations with the ability to listen to the county radios. Either case, the state police use part of this system as well as many other agencies. Each pretty much has their own main talkgroup and tac channels. This includes the cert (was react) teams. But it took a lot of handshakes and negotiating from multiple people to get it the way it is. But as a public safety group you might be able to get the local council, pd, fd and ems onboard to get you some talkgroups and interop group channels. Hell they probably have some old xts2.5/3k/5k. Hell 700/800 Mhz Motorola gear are dirt cheap compared to the vhf/uhf r1 counter pars. Think like $60-80 vs 200-500 for a unit. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Yes, you are in my head. We all now gmrs will probably end up in the trash heap because of all the repeaters and cross talk making it unusable. So solutions for when that happens it what LoRa and other avenues are for. Keeping an open mind on solution that can make this work. We are trying to create a redundant and super resilient system for community members to communicate with each other as well as create a direct line from agency support to the community. We all know people are busy and we have to minimize the impact this may have on their lives so we try to make it approachable. Gmrs is easy to license and allows the use of repeaters. Pretty cool . Of course we have blended amateur(ACS) ,ARES , smoke signals and everything else into the mix to accommodate each community and their way of wanting g to do things. We are here to try and minimize the gmrs jamb up or frequency overlap from other repeaters and users. So we have thought of securing a couple frequencies for this and some how making it license free or easy to get for the public. I will eventually sit down with the FCC and discuss. They have reached out and asked us for solutions to Tubbs, Maui etc. Tony

Actually we are trying to work with the them but they are stubborn. The whole reason we started NACS was to support the community that wasn't being supported by the Sheriff and other agencies. This movement is for the people. We will always be conscious of our choices and understand there may be consequences but we will not let tcomm get in our way. Tony

Oh and they recommended RTCM for our solution. Tony

I found the same thing with pins 5 and 7 swapped. It was the same with the short cable and the extension cable. None of my cables showed Pin shorted at all. I tested the short and extension cables on my KG-1000G and KG-1000G Plus.

Thanks, I did reach out to them. I was pretty disappointed in purchasing vendor when I found out we couldn't link our analog channels. The whole reason we went this route with Motorola was the ease of linking(if only GMRS was digital). Thanks for your feedback Tony

Yes, pin 2 is grounded in the short cable and I tried it with and without and it made no difference when you make your own cable. The only caveat is cable length. It starts to loose packets/communications when you go longer than the supplied extension cable. We had to learn this one the hard way. I reached out to B2WR and they said there is no solution. We are very bummed. Good luck Tony

Interesting... when I tested both the short and the extension cable.... it looks like they are wired 1-1 through 8-8 (like a standard ethernet cable) with just pins 5 + 7 flipped. I also noticed that on my extension cable, the second pin is shorted. So... it may work (depending on what pin 2 does), but I'm going to reach back to buy2wayradios to see if they can swap it out. (before I go through the suck task of taking apart half the interior of my vehicle to install it).

Actually makes me wonder about advance programing functions. Like stun, deny list by radio id's, split tones etc. As well as what they have rated for duty cycles. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

I'm curious to see how it compares to the Bridgecom repeaters if that is possible.

I noticed that a not all MN licenses show on the map. Mine did not show up and my call is about 5 years old. Also a friends didn’t show. Very cool what you did though.

Many/most radios allow this but to know for sure just try it.. You aren't going to break anything.

From all the information I've read over the last few minutes, it appears that whatever offer DX Engineering made was rejected. Who knows, maybe they or someone else might finally work something out, but for now whatever is left of MFJ after next month will be a shell of its former self. It's going to be a bunch of MFJ-branded imports.

Linking GMRS repeaters is entirely possible. If someone in your group is willing to search "linking repeaters" in the My GMRS forum they will find good information on what's involved, generally, and how GMRS users enjoy, or dislike, linked repeaters. Just not sure if it will fit into your overall plan. Perhaps you could share how you see fitting GMRS into, or interfacing, with your communication plan for the county. With more specifics you would likely get some more targeted guidance. A good place to start is here..

The advantage of RX tones is simply that your radio will not break squelch for any radios transmitting with no tone or a different tone. Because the simplex channels receive the same frequencies as the repeater channels that might reduce the amount of traffic. Im sorry, I don’t know how those radios work as far as allowing you to program additional channels.

I need to get that MFJ 1886 loop before they go away!

Spectral purity info would be nice. As well how sensitive receive is. Maybe a flir/thermal image after some usage. I am curious about were energy is most wasted in the radio. Only to see what part may fail first. Edit to add flir request. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

This just arrived in my mailbox - video to follow in the next few days... Please post your questions below and I will address them in the video (if they're not stupid)..

GMRS repeater channels share the same channels as Simplex channels. We will use channel 17 and repeater 17 as an example. The repeaters output will be on 462.600 MHZ and Channel 17 (simplex) is also on 462.600 MHz. So if you don't have a receive tone set on your radio, you will hear the repeater traffic and any simplex traffic (with no tones). And yes you can still hear the repeater even when it is using the output tones even though your radio does not have a receive tone set. Setting the receive tone just filters out any unwanted traffic on the channel so you don't hear it. We have tones set for both receive and transmit on our repeater. Last Saturday there were a bunch of kids on Channel 17 simplex. I did not hear them at all since I do have the receive tone set on my radio, others that don't have the receive tone set did hear the kids.

Would you know? I'm using TD-H-3's and TD-H8's. I'll do my research as well, still in my learning curve. If I may also ask, If I enter the Rx and Tx tones/codes, what's the advantage? Less traffic on my radio to radio communication? Or? Thank you! Any and all info is appreciated!

1. You only need the TX tone. 2. Yes, if your radio allows it, but not all do.

Hi, still learning so please have patients... So on my hand held I found my local GMRS repeaters, entered the in & out Rx and Tx tone/code and I hit them/opened them up. 1) Do I need both Rx and Tx in & out programed to take full advantage of the repeater or can I just enter the Tx out and leave the Rx off so I can listen to all traffic? With Tx out only programed will I still be able to use/open the repeater? OR do I need both Rx and Tx programed for the repeater to work properly? 2) Can I enter a repeater on any channel I want? Say channel 50, as long as I set the offset +5 and the proper tones/codes? Thank you much!!

Maybe MFJ can be "parted out" to save the brands. All those different companies under one umbrella must be hard to manage as a whole and still stay profitable.

Hey guys, this has happened a few times. Someone calls into and trips the repeater but doesn't activate the node affiliated with the repeater. Any ideas? WRXU693 James