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Speaking of how smart someone is... A neutron walks into a bar and says "Bartender... I'll have a beer." The bartender says "Sure" and slides him a beer. The neutron said "Thanks! What do I owe you?", and the bartender replied "For you? No charge!"

In this discussion the radio make isn't important as the OP has told us he has two choices, channel 17 or 17rp. The channel needing a code is 17rp, the repeater channel rather than the simplex channel, 17.

Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.

Yeah, we have chatted about this a bit here. Just my personal opinion, the KG-1000 is a great mobile radio if you are a radio geek and really enjoy bell's and whistles AND you are a technically inclined person. The MXT500 is great if you want a full power, full bandwidth, repeater ready radio... no frills, works out of the box and not confusing to operate. There are many good radios available when you look at new market specific gear, as well as legacy LMR equipment... but those two just seem to be my top favorites.

I ran a simple receive test with three radios that were off frequency by only 12.5Kc from the transmitter. The Wouxun "KG-935G" was able to filter out the off frequency station. The Anytone "AT-D878UVII plus" and the Baofeng "UV-82HP" both failed. Ken WQXQ522

sorry for the confusion, us old farts talk like everyone knows what we mean, yes out tone is just not TX the cw id with the encode tone on, that way we just don't have to hear it, could not have explained it better gortex2 and wrkc935, the i20r did have power in the first couple of components but that's as far as we got with testing, while we were transporting it fell on the street and got ran over, a quick death, just the i20r not the whole repeater, i gave it a nice burial, thanks for the controller suggestions gortex2, that i20r just fits so good in the gr300 box, i guess my question did help some new people understand what in and out tone cw id means.

I made my own spark gap transmitter as a kid.....it knocked out television and radio and this made my father hunt me down and paddle my backside. There were sparks flying from my metal "gap" pieces all the way to the ceiling, scorching that ceiling a bit. From then on, I was restricted from using ignition coils for "experiments"....but then ended up with a crystal AM radio receiver kit i was encouraged to solder together. Now, I have an amateur ticket, GMRS license (hence being here), commercial licenses, and a soldering iron. I spent some of this weekend repairing a 1944 R-100/URR receiver, that needed recapped.

I enjoyed this reminder. We don’t all need to be quite so ready to find fault with each other even when we’ve gotten on each other’s nerves in the past. And I really appreciate Marc’s humor!

Do you read through old threads looking for places you can "contribute"? Was it really necessary to add this statement to something posted over 4 months ago? The fact that maximum transmission power on the interstitials is expressed in ERP does not in any way prohibit a removable antenna, which is what I was commenting on. It does, however, place the onus on staying under the limit on the user of the radio ... not that most people care, of course.

The choice for a repeater antenna depends on how deep your pocketbook is. The better antennas are all large and have gain measured in dBd. DBd gain is a multiplier over the power radiated from your unity gain J-pole. If a gain figure is published using dBi, subtract 2.1 from the figure to get the true gain of the antenna. So, a 2.1 gain dBi antenna actually has zero or no gain over a half wave dipole. Considered as the best all-round antenna is the CommScope DB 420-B radiating over 8 times more power than its input.

I'm in Eureka and willing to help with building a GMRS repeater. I don't have the knowledge on building one but, willing to learn!

He is correct though, it would be easier to help if we knew what radio the guy was using.. And I prefer his direct and to-the-point replies to the 5-10 paragraph uncecessarily-complicated answers that always include a full resume of the person leaving the reply as well as a list of all the radios they own. I guess we all have different want/needs in forum replies..

I usually let people be people, but did you go of your meds? Seriously, you are repeatedly getting on discussions, and acting in a manner that is consistently antisocial, and lacking the common courtesy. Sent from my SM-T860 using Tapatalk

"Tone" is Tx only, to open the repeater squelch, but you will hear any traffic on the Rx frequency. "T Sql" is Tx/Rx, it will send the tone to the repeater, but will also require the repeater to send the Rx tone to your radio. "Tone" is safe when initially configuring. When you know you are hitting the repeater you can then consider "T Sql" mode.

Help is easier when you tell us which radio you are using.

It sometimes does.

Basically yes, but there are also DTC/DCS tones in addition to CTCSS tones.

Sounds like your browser is blocking location requests. Don't use the "near me" button (difficult to tell if it is selected)... Use the advanced search. (I should have trimmed that in Word or such before pasting it...)

The best antennas for bandwidth are the ones designed for single band, commercial use. Dual and tri-band antennas are all compromises made to tweak the antenna to work acceptably.

Hello All Love this site. Best repeater database online. Long time HAM and periodic FRS/GMRS user, now that the hardware base is expanding. I have a Midland mobile in my off road rig, great radio. I live in a rural community and if there is enough interest would put up a repeater. I like that the GMRS service is giving non HAM operators a higher power choice than FRS. Ryan

Could that been because spark gap transmitters sent their signal across ALL the bands?

Cool! Just remember, spark gap transmitters are banned on ham bands since 1920s and internationally since 1930s, and for a good reason.

Try putting them on scan to scan through all the channels.. But, also remember, that GMRS is primarily for point-to-point communications, for example talking to your group while off-roading, or staying in contact with your buddies while hiking, so it is entirely possible that you're not going to hear anything - and nobody here can help you with that.

@OffRoaderX, I think TNRonin needs a link in order to fully understand... LOL

If you look close, 99% of them are actually sad-hams, disguised as GMRS operators.

I had hoped this wouldn't happen, but we get to see sad GMRS operators on display. Tho not to the degree of sad hams. Yet! Sent from my SM-T860 using Tapatalk

It doesnt matter, and only the hall-monitors care - as you can see very clearly in this and other online forums..

Seriously dude, you're going to damage yourself if you keep getting this stressed over a forum chat. In the section you nicely bolded and underlined, I wasn't actually asking a question, just setting up a scenario. Since you apparently can't conceive beyond the explicit, I will lay it out further. The club uses the tones as they are intended, as a noise filter to restrict received transmissions to those sent with the appropriate code. By adding only a tx tone to a preset channel, yes my fellow club members would hear me. I would, however, still be receiving all traffic on ch 4. By editing the name on preset ch. 4, I now have to remember that ch 4 = "club" and that it has a tx tone enabled. While that works, it still doesn't do what I was hoping, which is to leave preset ch 4 as is and "clone" it somewhere else in my channel list with the name "club" and both tx and rx tones enabled. The VERY NEXT sentence in my original post says that from a practical perspective, I really don't care. My whole point was that most native radio programming schemes offer far fewer configurable TX/RX channels than their advertising leads one to believe. I don't care about brands, etc., I was seeking to understand if there was a technical limitation that causes this to be true for many radios. The more astute and altruistic responses on this thread confirmed my suspicion that in fact, there isn't necessarily a technical limitation, but rather an unwillingness by OEMs and VARs to spend money on bespoke GMRS firmware and software. I hope this helps you sleep better. Thank you for granting me permission to ask additional questions. I have to say I didn't know it was up to you to bestow this entitlement.

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To make that scheme work, you would need to obtain a GOOD duplexer (notch/bandpass) tuned properly to your desired frequency, then insert the linear amp before the duplexer.