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Not really. The term “voting system” usually refers to a repeater with multiple receivers and the ability to select the receiver (vote) with the strongest input signal. The receivers are typically geographically diverse and linked back to the repeater.

No split tones on the Midland stuff. Can't even do transmit encoding with no decoding. You are limited to repeaters with the same in/out tones unless you get another radio.

Exactly. Think of cell phones. They use a voting system to help keep your call uninterrupted.

The "no encoding" was the main reason I did not buy Midland. I enjoy listening. I did not know about mixed tones back then. Another good reason to chose another radio. Our local repeater used mixed tones. CTCSS/PLL tone to open the repeater and DCS TX.

Many repeaters can be set to recognize and send more than one tone or type of tone. So, contact the repeater owner and ask - very nicely - if they might be able to do something to accommodate your limitation. BTW, if it is possible to do something, iit wouldn’t hurt to offer a small donation in return.

Thanks guys, it didn't seem like i could do split tones on the Midland. I do have a Baofeng radio and I have been able to somewhat figure it out and I believe i have been able to get it to work with a single tone, like I said i am really new to this so I will keep working at it.

I don't believe the Midland radios can do split tones; split tones are typically hard-coded to a channel or a list of OSTs when programming the radio. Great to see another GMRS licensee in Albuquerque! I'm on the Sandia 675 repeater quite a bit; there's usually somebody monitoring after 5PM weekdays. If you get on the air tonight, I'd be happy to chat. Jim/WREC548

the repeater you describe employs split tones. I think Midland is incapable of operating in split or mixed tone. But I only have knowledge of this second hand. You may try to set it up with the input tone prog,d into CTCSS/DCS TX and the output tone prog'd into CTCSS/DCS RX. I am sure others with more direct knowledge will chime in. Best of luck with it.

Welcome Mr New Guy Not all radios will let you do split codes. I believe Midland radios fall into this where I dont believe you can run both codes at once. There are radios you can use, for instance my Kenwood allows split tones through the programing software, however Im not sure the FPP would let me input split codes.

Hahaha! I laughed so hard I snorted.

Yes.

GMRS requires a user license, FRS does not. FRS "Rules" are generally non enforceable. 'FRS is licensed by rule. This means an individual license is not required to operate an FRS radio provide you comply with the rules. You may operate an FRS radio regardless of your age, and for personal or for business use if you are not a representative of a foreign government.' And you are right...businesses need to be on MURS if they want cheap comms. Maybe the good thing is that most of the cheap radios that people buy from a "store" are good for 2 watts at best. Really what was done with the rules was to make what people were (uneducated about radio) doing illegally with store bought radios that did GMRS and FRS in being legal. The fcc should have never allowed combo radios to begin with.