Leaderboard

I've seen shady radio shops set people up on FRS/GMRS frequencies illegally, if this is a random repeater you've found and not one you know personally. My favorite was a FedEx hub operating a repeater on the FRS frequencies with a range of like 15 miles or more to cover their warehouse. F-bombs day and night constantly, just shocking crap you'd hear. They thought they had a private channel, meanwhile they were splattering all over FRS. Needless to say the FCC paid them a visit and got them on business band literally overnight. They had a STA grant the very next day for a business pair and their FRS repeater went silent. Not sure if they were fined, but the visit was effective.

You are correct there is no repeater in the area where I am at right now, also did an experiment with a second radio last night with the frequencies listed above if I transmit on FRS 1 and the second radio is listening on the repeater channel 18 there is no response on the repeater channel. Then I reversed both hand held radios with the same result so all is well with my equipment. I suspect one of the trail bike families in the area is using a ham hand held radio instead of a GMRS radio and they are programmed wrong!

I don't think he is talking about the signal actually being repeated, I think he means the signal comes in on his radio on both channels - in which case his receiver is not alligned properly, or it is a CCR with a lot of unknown IF leakage.

Based on the initial description, I would say it is more likely a case of something intentional. Perhaps something like Rich describes. Note the repeater pair is used upside down(in low, out high) and also is not the standard UHF 5 MHz split.

I'm brand new to GMRS, but been into Jeeps since 96. We are installing Midland MXT-115s in my wife's, Brother's and my Jeep shortly. we are in SC, I hate mud, but have to deal with it. WRFE441