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OOps, I lied it was through the Radioditty software, you can do it in the software or by powering up with the V/M button held down

Good news that your noise is gone. I had this issue with a VHF/UHF radio installed in my Sienna, even after bonding everything. For those of you with chronic alternator whine, one way to tell where the noise is being fed into the radio is by removing the antenna from the radio. If the alternator noise persists, it may be coming in through the power leads, even if they are connected directly to the battery, which mine are. I ended up building a noise filter out of a Quick Link, 20 feet of 12 gauge stranded wire, and a 47k uf capacitor. It knocked out 99+% of the noise. Some will say my alternator is bad, but it's much cheaper to install a $20 filter than it is to drop $300 to replace a working alternator with a working alternator. Here's the link to the build: http://www.sanantoniohams.org/tips/whine.htm

TYT TH-9800D. Quad band (10m/6m/2m/70cm) but can also be unlocked to full VHF and UHF ranges. 50W VHF and 40W UHF. I've never met one in person, but they are about half the cost of the two DMR radios. Is it a *great* radio? Probably not. But it meets the requirement.

So I tried just about all of the radios. I would pick the Wouxun KG-XS20G over everything else including Midland. It's built better. It also puts out more power. Just my two cents.

I’m not sure I understand the question so I’ll try to bracket it with enough information to answer your question. Please feel free to correct me if I have misunderstood. If you are licensed for GMRS and you have received permission to use a repeater, then you can use that repeater. That’s true of any GMRS repeater. If your call sign is WRVL295, you are required to use that call sign when using any GMRS repeater. You identify yourself at the beginning and end of a conversation and at least every 15 minutes if it’s a long conversation. Don’t let that scare you. Any reasonable effort is probably good enough. Some people never ID and as far as I know nobody has ever gone to jail or even been fined for it. I tend to use my call sign too frequently. There’s no need for that either. I suspect it’s an irritant to other parties but they’ve all been really nice so far. ?

Success For those trying to register, I was able to do so today after 9 days. Thanks for the feedback on using a PSU. Just got everything wired for a dashcam and left the option open to power my radio through the truck or PSU. I’m looking forward to getting everything setup and learning more about these radios.

There are a lot of security issues with the old IPV4 protocols. The new IPV6 tried to fixed them. The packet redirect was part of the DNS poisoning issue. It had more to do with the firmware running on the DNS servers that didn't dump their cash often enough as outlined by the protocol. The reason given it cut down the time spent updating the lookup tables. The attack would target a DNS server by sending it spoofed updates from a higher level authoritative DNS server trying to get the requesting lower level DNS server to read it's spoofed update first. The spoofed update would send the IP address of the spoofed web site etc. in-place of the real correct address when an inquiry was made to the poisoned DNS server. Because the now "poisoned" DNS server isn't dumping it's cash frequently the poisoned DNS server could be returning the spoofed address for an extended length of time. The above is just a basic outline how the scheme worked.

The subject line is misleading. TYT is NOT part of Hytera -- and was even sued by Hytera when they were marketing under the name "Tytera". https://www.listcompany.org/Quanzhou_Nanan_Tyt_Electronics_Co_Ltd_Info.html Doesn't seem to have any company names related to the list https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist I couldn't find any sites in Google that implied Tyt was a subsidiary of any other company that might have been on the list. Hytera was put on the list in March 2021 (at that time, Hytera was banned from providing equipment to public service and security systems, but wasn't prohibited from general public -- the November 2022 report seems to change that to reject any filing for certification). Note that the FCC list includes Kaspersky anti-virus products. This all came about as part of an effort to protect the Internet (routers -- especially those with an ability to redirect packets to other addresses, I think; maybe DSL modems, WiFi access points) https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-176A1.pdf

@Lscott at this point in my life, I have come to distrust anything electronic. There is a good chance that if electricity can flow through it, someone can use it improperly against you, without your knowledge.

Around here when I'm in town there is activity near the Walmart stores and something that is transmitting an electronic chiming doorbell like noise on one of the channels. I'm guessing that's either a wireless doorbell or driveway alarm. When I was out away from town all of the channels were completely quiet.

For those wondering, I have two (main) videos about Salton Sea: 1) My walk around the (California's largest) lake in summer temps of 120°F (hour long documentary) : 2: What the U.S. military left behind at the bottom of Salton Sea (30 minute long documentary):

I just got the Wouxun KG-XS20G PLUS. Getting about 26 watts on some channels. 24 on the rest. This is one of the best radios I've ever had.

If it gets uploaded and you don’t see it here after a couple days then give a shout out to Rich at support. https://mygmrs.com/contact

I had my license and call sign for a couple of weeks before the FCC included it in the data base that this site uses to verify your call sign. It’s not just a matter of having your license already as MichaelLAX has shown. The FCC lags a bit on this it seems. Be patient it will be loaded soon. check here https://www.fcc.gov/uls/transactions/daily-weekly

Sorry, but that is not correct. Amateur repeaters (just like operators) are required to ID at the beginning of a transmission sequence, every 10 minutes during, and at the end of the transmission sequence. If no further traffic is repeated, the machine may then sit silent until the next sequence begins. Normally, when a ham repeater is first keyed up, or "cerchuncked", it will send an ID immediately. If no one then uses the machine, it will ID again in 10 minutes, then stay quiet. If someone does use the machine, it will ID every 10 minutes during the conversation. If the conversation ends after 27 minutes, then after an additional 3 minutes, the machine will send the final ID at the 30 minute time slot, then be silent until keyed up again. For GMRS, there is nothing in the rules that require a repeater to ID, but the operators must. Just for good measure, most repeater operators ID their machines as well. I have mine set up just like a ham repeater, except the ID timer is set to 15 minutes rather than 10 minutes. It stays silent until I key it up, then it will ID after the first transmission. If I talk for 3 minutes, then sign off, it will stay quiet for 12 minutes, then send the final ID before going back quiet. By the way, I use Bridgecom repeaters as you mentioned, and they already have this Morse ID function built-in. At set-up, you type in your call sign, and set the ID timer for 10 or 15 minute intervals.

No the repeater is not required to ID, however the user is required under rule. This has been discussed many times on this site.