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You’re asking to use someone else’s property. This provides them with means to contact you.

I've done some searching but not a bunch of info out there, mostly "just put it on the roof". I know fender mount is far from ideal, and realize that I'm trying get best results from worst option, but with all the gear I'm planning for the roof on my Land Cruiser its not practical to roof mount antenna. What have people done with success for fender placed GMRS antennas on SUV? Going to be running the new KG XS20G. Advise, warnings, opinions, tips, rumors all welcome! TIA

HI all, Just a quick note that a group of us recently started an informal FB group of users in the NOVA and upper Shenandoah Valley area. If you are interested, we are on FB at NOVA GMRS. Eric - WQZV248

Now this may not be news to some of you, but... One of the things I can't stand with some of the radios, is that they come hard coded with all of the GMRS 'channels' (including the annoyingly occupied 'bubble pack' channels). In the really cheap radios, you're kinda stuck with these as, other than the CTCSS settings, they cannot be deleted and/or altered. If you're lucky, there are a few memory locations for custom channels, but you're still stuck with all 30 of the hard coded channels. From the factory, the KG-935G also has all of these default channels. However, unlike many of the radios, these default channels can be deleted and the memory space used as one desires! A big plus in my book, because I have just a couple of systems I routinely use and, I hate having to scroll through a list of unwanted channels just to get to the ones I actually desire. Sure, I can put up to 999 channels in the thing, but does anybody really want or need that? So now, as I rotate the channel selector knob, it goes through the few systems I have and then returns to the first channel in the list! Much better than feeling like I'm winding up an alarm clock to find the system I want! Additionally, I've discovered that the scan lists, with the exception of #1, can be customized, another perk IMHO. This is where a better, more detailed manual, would be nice, instead of having to experiment with the software! FWIW!

Minor correction (I know it was a typo): AT-779uv is the gmrs certified Anytone. AT-778uv is a ham radio (slightly bigger, and a few more watts).

RT Systems sells a Mac version.

Good observation on the KG-935G which I have had some time. It a real radio... I have it to talk on GMRS and can monitor Ham frequency (which I'm a ham). I use the following software and cable to program radio as it much more user friendly... wish it was in Mac OS. https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/KG-935G_c_2138.html I make up several Scan Group and some have my standard Repeaters and others frequency I use on Simplex etc. So I pick my group and just scan that group. So with the software from RT Systems, well worth getting it as I can cut and paste makes life easy and fast. Easy to fill up the 999 channel slots. Enjoy your 935G as much as I do as well as my KG-UV8H for Hams who want to monitor GMRS.

The RT97 has a duplexer built in. A duplexer allows the receiver portion of a repeater to hear while the transmitter is transmitting. That’s why the transmitter must transmit at a separate frequency. A duplexer is a filter to prevent the outgoing signal from the transmitter from being received by the receiver. The duplexer must be precisely tuned to the frequency you program into the radio. If not, the repeater simply won’t work, unless you use two antennas, one for transmit and one for receive, and separate them, usually vertically on a tower. I don’t know if that’s your problem, but unless you program your RT97 to match how the duplexer is tuned, your repeater won’t. 450m-520m sounds like the bandwidth or range of frequencies your RT97 can be programmed to (450 MHz to 520 MHz). That says nothing about what frequency it’s actually set to, just its capabilities. There’s no special programming that makes it work better with an Anytone 878/868. The RT97 is strictly analog FM. Boxcar already explained that the receive frequencies on the repeater are the converse of what’s on any radios you intend to use. Best wishes. I’m hopeful that you can get it sorted out. My limited understanding of duplexer tuning informs me that I don’t have the right equipment. It would be easier to program the radio to match how the duplexer is already tuned.

The difference (offset) for GMRS is 5 MHz. The repeater receives its input signal at 467 MHz and transmits at 462 MHz. Tones can be added to the repeater to limit access. You would add tones to the repeater's input frequencies and the same tones to your personal units output frequency, So, the repeater setup is opposite what you set up for your personal units. Your personal units will transmit (with tone) on the 467 frequency and listen on the 462 frequency.

I would say "yes". If what you hear back is morse code then that is the repeater identifying itself. If it's just a "bee-boop" then that's the courtesy tone.

@WRKC935, did you read my post from March 10th? Or maybe you are ignoring my posts? Either way, that statement is incorrect. MURS, like FRS, is licensed by rule. No call signs. Is a Baofeng type-accepted for MURS? No, but that's a different issue, and not much of one IMHO. It's also quite possible that the council has a Part 90 license, which also does not require individuals to identify with a callsign (since they do not have one). The fact that my 5 minute search for a license associated with that council name didn't find one doesn't mean they don't have one. They could be operating on a "rent-a-radio" system, for all we know. So FRS is not the only 'legal' option. What we DO know is that there is no amateur radio license that would cover all the volunteers at any event (Scouting or otherwise), so whoever told the OP either misspoke or was misinformed.

In my area, a "<call> testing" doesn't get much response, but if they say "<call> radio check, or how am I doing, am I making the repeater" - that almost always gets a response and usually a decent signal report. That goes for GMRS and the Ham repeater. Just a friendly bunch here in "The South".

The UV9G is waterproof, if that matters for how you will be using the radio. What anyone recommends for you should be 100% dependent on what you plan to use the radio for, how you plan to use it, and what your preferences are - none of which you have shared - so anyone making a recommendation at this point would just be someone guessing what is right for you based on what is right for them..

None of that sounds right at all. A VEC is an Amateur Radio Volunteer Examiner Coordinator and has nothing to do with repeaters. The ARRL doesn't coordinate any repeaters. If the local amateur radio repeater coordinator says an area is saturated and won't coordinate any new repeater pairs in your area, you can still put up an uncoordinated repeater. You just have no bargaining chips if your uncoordinated repeater has interference from a coordinated repeater. And, still, none of any of that is an impact on GMRS because NO ONE coordinates GMRS repeaters. Not the FCC, not the ARRL, not VEC's, not coordinator agencies such as TMARC.

Some repeaters are set to have no squelch tail; so "kerchunking" them will result in silence. The only way to confirm these would be with a 2nd radio in range and set to transmit to this repeater with the proper tone.

I'm going to use a Tram 1191 on the left rear window of my Discovery to work both VHF and UHF frequencies.