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A good friend of mine has put up a GMRS repeater in my area that is over 400 feet in the air. He is using a borrowed digital repeater for the moment but will re crystal his big 100 watter for use soon. He just got ahold of 7/8 hard line and a 16 bay folded dipole that he believes is 10 or 12 db gain. He will turn it down to keep the repeater safe, and it is on top of a building so the hard line is super short. He has his ham, commercial, and GMRS licenses, and used to work for a radio service so he can get a lot of stuff super cheap or free. He has a 40 mile foot print now and hopes to get it back to almost 60 miles like his commercial machine used to do it the same exact location. If he runs the repeater at 75 or 80 watts and has about 50 at the antenna is he legal? I hope so. Just questions. Should be huge by the end of the month. Jerry

Thanks for the words to keep the post going the right way. I read back through it and want to answer a couple questions. We do not have a travel tone on the repeaters yet. Tim has to get his Motorola MSR2000 repeater up there so he can use his good controller. When he use his controller remotely he will add a travel tone to it. We have both of them registered on this site. He might get to the Paulding site first, so he will get that one running first, but he hopes to get the Sandusky, Ohio site up soon and put a travel tone on it. It will be an open repeater for all to use. I will read back through this thread again but I might have mentioned Tim retired from a two way mobile company as their main tech. He still helps them out a bit so the owner has allowed him to put up the GMRS repeaters at commercial sites with most being at the 400 Ft area. All on commercial towers, or tall buildings, and all 7/8 hard line and Super Station Masters already in line. The two way radio company owner has allowed all sites for free, including the use of the antennas etc., and Tim helps him out by doing a repair, or new install, for free once in awhile. Jerry

The NPRM was 4 years ago and NO action has been taken,after this length of time you would think some kind of action would be taken.With the influx of comments wanting to maintain GMRS the way it is show the FCC we do care.The FCC has responded to complaints when people take time to sit down and gather the needed information and send it to the FCC...William

Quarterwave - everything is cool at your end and we sent you a PM regarding the situation to which you have responded to. We will only say this one more time in the open before the staff here takes punitive action: We DO NOT want to see any posted suggestions regarding BLATANT** unlawful operation - such as over power being an "OK - who cares" situation, Ham equipmment being used on GMRS frequencies and so on. Any further postings of this type will trigger an automatic staff response which may decrease our membership by one, as well as being removed from the main website registration. The suggestions made by the individual in question may also potentially stir the interest of the Commission because the Commission IP address shows up occasionally as a guest here and the call sign of the person is clearly visible. Need we say more? The MyGMRS staff ________________________________________________________________________ [** ref: the Part 90 equipment in Part 95 service is not a blatant issue as of this time and is still on the table for discussions as usual.]