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The almighty and great Queen Randy(Notarubicon) has officially designated, in the absence of leadership, that GMRS channel 19 should be the "official" channel for traveling ie.( highway use) for those who are operating GMRS radios. I agree with him if we start the movement it will be the standard just like channel 19 was in the day of the CB riggers. Only those with a GMRS license are "authorized" to key the PTT on the radio however. All fun aside this is a great idea and should be unofficially adopted just like channel 19 was for the CB radio guys. What say you?

Yep, the manual blows. I also have a compander function right next to the NC menu item, so maybe I should email Retevis for confirmation (wish me luck). I currently have NC enabled on two rx-only channels (local law enforcement) so I don't know if it does anything, but you are likely correct that NC is related to tx more than rx. BTW, I learned to manually program it based on some YouTube scallywag's "just in case" recommendation. Thanks for that

It’s actually hardwired through the fuse box on a dedicated circuit. Sounds like going straight to the battery may be the first attempt at isolating the issue…

Is the radio wired directly to the battery? or through the accessories on the ignition? i would try isolating the power from the electric on the JEEP.?

In another thread, I facetiously said that a similar problem with Midlands was: "a feature and not a bug!" But hearing these complaints over and over again, I am starting to believe in the efficacy of my own advice! While they may have the "advantage" of being easy for Newbies to use "right out of the box;" that feature is worthless if the hardware is overpriced junk! That being said, I much prefer discounted junk! ?

If this happens on all channel setting I would suspect what ever makes the the "squelch setting level" is bad in the unit. Try changing the squelch setting and see how the unit reacts. With that information call Midland and ask to sent the unit back for a checkout. I am a newbie and just throwing this out there. I too get pops of static in certain locations but it seems to be transmissions/burst of telecommunications stuff in different locations but unlike your situation it only happens in different areas.

I highly doubt the code (which is NOT private, BTW) has anything to do with it.. My first guess is that something in the Jeep is causing the noise - the only way to know for sure is to take the radio out of the jeep and try it in another vehicle or in the house (if you have a power supply) - if the same thing happens, then send it back. When you have your handheld radios in the jeep, do they get any of the static bursts?

Knowing = power Now I know this. Here are the current settings. The offset value is automatic on the uv-82hp so it shows 000.000 no matter what. Sent from my SM-T860 using Tapatalk

And honestly I find this to be disheartening. Not the old guy part but the total lack of involvement from the younger guys. And the fact that the ones that do get involved are the vest and light bar guys. Others on here have mentioned that part of amateur radio is emergency communications. And that's true. But This stuff was established when public safety communications was FAR different than it is today. Those changes have made the police and fire systems far more resilient and reliable than back in the day, and the amateur radio technology has for the most part stalled. The 'old guy' mentality I believe has something to do with it, lack of accepting change, or new technology. So public safety, The Red Cross, and other 'established' emergency groups have shiny new radio systems that have redundancy and we have 2 Meter FM and HF simplex. But we can talk simplex.... except those shiny new PS radios have that ability too. And the ham community is almost at odds with it self to move forward and those that are willing lack the funds and the spectrum to do so, at least in my area. By that I mean no one is actually looking at where they need to place repeaters and infrastructure to provide an alternate path for emcomm and those that actually DO, can't get a repeater pair to put in the equipment. There are probably 30 VHF ham repeaters in the Central Ohio area. No one uses ANY of them. But ask for someone to give up a pair so it can be moved to a better site on better equipment and they poo poo all over that idea, stating it's THEIR repeater pair and it's gonna remain that way. But if you call for that guy on HIS repeater, with HIS call sign on it, he's not even listening to it, let alone anyone else. And frankly it's sad that ham radio has fallen in this rabbit hole. And I really don't know if there is a way back at this point. Not to mention the idea that guys are getting DMR 'hotspots' and forgoing a repeater all together. What's the point of using RF to communicate 6 feet to your Raspberry Pi and then onto the internet? Seems pointless. And with the available dongles, you can forgo the radio all together and connect your computer to a microphone and talk without RF being involved on your end at all. So, we eliminate the radio part of ham radio and what do you have left?

No channels are reserved for anything except for repeater input frequencies being reserved for repeater inputs. Even that has some exceptions. § 95.1731 Permissible GMRS uses. The operator of a GMRS station may use that station for two-way plain language voice communications with other GMRS stations and with FRS units concerning personal or business activities. (a) Emergency communications. Any GMRS channel may be used for emergency communications or for traveler assistance. Operators of GMRS stations must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to emergency communications § 95.1763 GMRS channels. (c) 467 MHz main channels. Only mobile, hand-held portable, control and fixed stations may transmit on these 8 channels. Mobile, hand-held portable and control stations may transmit on these channels only when communicating through a repeater station or making brief test transmissions in accordance with § 95.319(c).

I have been a licensed Ham and GMRS operator for over 20 years. I come from a career in Law Enforcement in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Back in the late 90s most of the GMRS users on one of the high profile repeaters were mostly police and fire personnel. We all had fun playing radio, seeing how much we could reverse engineer our favorite batwing gear and respected each other. The repeater owner for that system had passed away so the repeater had went off of the air. Sure there were others but life, kids and other obligations were calling. So I took a break from GMRS and still played on digital in Ham. About two years ago I found a radio, dropped it in the charger and found that one of the local repeaters was still on the air. I immediately connected up with one of the members from our group in the 90s. He filled me in on the current condition and how much activity was taking place on the several GMRS repeaters in the city. So I listened for a few weeks......Wow was I disgusted! The lack of respect and decorum that these people have is appalling. The sad thing is most of them are hams (have been ran off of repeaters there) and are not even repeater owners...It's basically, I bought my $20 piece of crap radio and I'm going to do anything I want and no one can stop me....With all of this has came with profanity, music over the radio, keying up on top of others and other nefarious behaviors that some may relate to CB but I'm pretty sure its not legal there either. Plus being the son of a retired union truck driver, I used the CB when I was little and did not treat the service with that outlook. So I called the "flagship" or high profile repeater owners and said we have to do something. Hell, one of the repeater owners was even called and exploitive word that is not appropriate for this site, while he wasn't on the air and on the repeater that he pays for a nd supports on his own. We had operators telling the repeater owners they did not have any rights to restrict their use and that all GMRS repeaters are there for free use of the service and there are magical unicorns in the air farting dollar bills,,, ok so I made up the last. At the beginning of this year I began to draft an initiative to change things and bring class and decorum back to the service. The GMRS community in the city consists of about 140 operators. The majority of which are good, rule and law following individuals and do not wish to "freeload" as the small amount of individuals that have no skin in the game wish to do. Since forming, the Association has Incorporated, elected board members with the five founding members, adopted by laws, obtained a EIN number and received our 501c3 determination from the IRS which is huge. The Association has adopted a Operational Policy and Code of Conduct that all members must accept when petitioning for membership. The membership fee will be $40.00 per year. We have also registered as a charitable organization with the Kroger Company and Amazon. Our activities are described as expanding the education and technical abilities of the GMRS radio service while available to assist any public service agency in the event of a declared disaster with Emergency Communications. So that is where we are now. The applications will go out this week. The dues program will go live on June 1st, 2022 with a two week grace period for payment. Long story short; if you are not a paying member in good standing your repeater access will be revoked by the repeater owner as described in 95.1705. The relationship between the Association and the repeater owner is clearly explained in a executed memorandum of understanding for each repeater. We currently now have nine repeaters involved. The Association also has within it's powers to create a committee to evaluate any repair/maintenance reimbursement from a repeater owner. Within our operational guidelines, we have also restricted the use of the service to being another Ham repeater to talk about Ham Radio topics. If you want to talk about ham radio, there are a plethora of 6m, 2m, 1.25m, 40cm and 33cm repeaters in our area that sit silent in idle at all hours... Go there.... We also have operators passing GMRS callsigns around like they are ham radio operators, 15 minutes! use your unit number, you are taking up Airtime and hogging the repeaters. Another bad habit from the hams is not thinking about what to say before you key the mic. Operators will key up and uh uh uh and oh wow plus others. I understand my public safety background broke me of it, think about what you are going to say before you key the mic, say it and listen... You cannot hear someone else while you are yappin...We have also instructed our members to stop the Q codes and 73s, GMRS is a totally different service from Ham... If you want to talk ham radio, use one of those many repeaters that sit silent Now you are probably reading this and thinking, wow, pretty drastic...... No, absolutely not, the repeaters we have here are all owned by individuals. That means they are PRIVATE property, if you do not want someone to be at your property or to use your property you have the right to say that. That up to this point has not been respected. Imagine this, you are sitting on your couch, your door swings open, some guy from down the street kicks in your door, starts bashing your house apart and leaves.. What is the difference when people are doing what was described in the above, or stay keyed up for long transmit times, just resetting the TOT and not letting the repeater come up for air. Our organization has been received by the masses very well. A repeater is a complex and expensive piece of equipment. 80% of our repeater equipment is equipped with the capability to restrict access on the analog system. We will evaluate if we decide to use this as it will keep anyone who does not have the correct access information into that repeater with MDC technology. Other than that we are looking forward to getting our membership trained with the ICS modules and becoming more involved with our communities in any way we may serve. Just my story and my two pennies on radio clubs in GMRS. I have said from the beginning of our endeavor, we must do this right and thorough. I believe we have built the foundation. Take care, Jamie

..Like I said...

Just remember, that as predicted in the proclamation video, "some people" will always and forever spew reasons why Ch19 (any channel, actually) is not "the right choice", and will argue about it as they have for years, accomplishing nothing.. Those people are not invited to join with the rest of us normal people on Ch19.. They can go talk to themselves on some other channel.. My name is Queen Randy and I approve this message.