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I heard a rumor that the YouTube GMRS Queen will be making a video about this radio very soon.

We use MURS all the time when our jeep club gets together.

Interesting comment. I think those channels could be put to better use IMHO. In another thread there is a suggestion to use those interstitial channels for the addition of digital voice mode. Using a narrow enough digital signal overlap with the "official" 20KHz adjacent GMRS main channels could be reduce to less than the current 11KHz narrow FRS FM, or eliminated. There are some digital voice modes that only use 4KHz bandwidth and would fit in without overlapping the GMRS main channels. Might even run at much higher power too, like at least 5 watts, the limit for hand held GMRS radios.

My guess is a quality radio may not see that issue either. Granted high power next to any radio can cause issues but a radio with little to no filtering on the recevier doesn't help things.

The expected behavior is, if the transmitting radio is on narrow and the receiving radio is on wide, than the voice will sound quiet and possibly static-filled. It will also sound tinny due to how the audio filters are tuned. Where the processor normally pulls audio for bass, there is no voice to sample. This is because, best case, only half of the receivers channel space is occupied with data. The rest is noise. In the opposite case, if the transmitting radio is on wide and the receiving radio is on narrow, than the voice will sound overly loud, possibly distorted and possibly have a lot of bass. This is because only half of the transmitter's signal is being heard on the receive side, making is sound over-modulated and the audio segment where he treble is sampled is missing. Based on that understanding, mismatching bandwidth should not cause a variation, starting out loud and shifting quiet. Its either loud and bassy or quiet and tinny, depending on which side of the mismatched bandwidth setting you're on.

And is one of the stated clear-channel stations per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station#List_of_all_clear-channel_stations

Hi Mike / WRUZ733, As in Mike's quote, you'll need a tone (CTCSS tone or DCS code) to open the repeater. The reason for the tone is to prevent unwanted noise on frequency from activating the repeater. The tones / codes are listed in the mygmrs.com repeater database (more below). Also be sure you're transmitting into the "repeater input" frequency, more on this after the CTCSS / DCS comment: About the CTCSS tones: If you're using the repeater database here on mygmrs.com ( https://www.mygmrs.com/repeaters) , you'll need to do a conversion between "the number used by Midland" and the actual "CTCSS tone in Hertz". The conversion is found in the Midland owners manual on page 28: Link to Midland Owners Manual search: https://midlandusa.com/pages/owners-manuals direct link (may not work after some time): https://cdn.accentuate.io/81031332017/1623709894082/MXT275-Owners-Manual-11-16-20.pdf?v=0 About the DCS tones: From a radio operator perspective, DCS configuration is similar to CTCSS configuration, select the proper DCS number/setting as listed in the repeater database; select the proper input frequency (or in Midland configuration the proper RPTxx channel) and you should be on the air. In implementation, CTCSS is actually a tone in Hertz, where DCS is a digital ones and zeros string coming out of the transmitter. For the radio operator, each implementation yields similar results, the repeater is able to reject unwanted transmissions (noise) and transmitting with the proper code allows the radio operator to open the repeater to repeat the transmitted input signal of the radio operator. About the input frequency: Also be sure the input frequency is properly set. Nearly all repeaters have an input frequency which is different from the listen frequency. For GMRS +5 MHz higher than the listen frequency would be the standard. In the above manual links, this would be page 27, table "GMRS Repeater Channels". The column labeled "TX Freq. (MHz)" would be the "input frequency" of the repeater. Repeaters are usually listed by which frequency we hear them on, which would be the "output frequency" of the repeater. In the midland example on page 27, a repeater listed as 462.5500Mhz would have an input frequency of 467.5500Mhz and would be on 15RP in the Midland MXT275 radio. (see above links and owners manual for the MXT275, pg 27). Notes from Midland GMRS Repeater Channels table: Ch. Number TX Freq. (MHz) RX Freq. MHz) 15RP 467.5500 462.5500 After configuring the proper CTCSS tone (or DCS code) and transmit input frequency into your radio, you should be able to transmit and receive on the local repeater. Hope that helps, looking forward to hearing your success story when you get your radio working with the local repeater! If you want to talk to other GMRS users and be sure your radio is working, talking on one of the GMRS nets is a good way to find out. Net directory for GMRS: https://www.mygmrs.com/nets *date of post: 2022-10-25 // later readers may see reference links out of date. Enjoy! -Mark / WRTQ652

The ability to hide our full street address when someone looks up our call sign!!!! City and state are fine but why show them our full physical street address?