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Hey folks. I just wanted to take a minute to thank the members of MyGMRS.Com for the support and well-wishes. I know sometimes we bicker among ourselves, but at the end of the day we're all human, trying to enjoy the hobby and help we're we can. All of the messages, emails, etc. have really shown me what a great group we have here and how when someone is truly down, the petty stuff gets put aside and concern for a fellow member becomes the priority. Again, thank you all. - Marc

I definitely purchased the Radioddity DB20-G.

New to the website. It’s a wonderful tool and super easy to use. I am loving the app and thanks for allowing us to try beta. Out of all the FCC and Ham radio websites you have created the cleanest and easiest to navigate site. Excellent work!! Enough typing…time to get one the air!!

Almost 7 pages of nothing more than pure self-absorbed grammatical masterbation and, as expected, nothing actually accomplished. Great job everyone, you're making GMRS a better place!

Yes

It's done to get a reaction. Like when a five year old does something to an older sibling to make them mad. It's a common tactic here to get people involved in pointless arguments.

@WRXE944 the firmware version on mine is 2.34.

There’s a conversation about that from maybe eight or nine months ago. Technically you might be able to do something like that but you tie up more channels. Done incorrectly you end up with an infinite loop. But the regulations don’t allow repeaters to transmit on the 467 MHz frequencies so it’s not really possible.

One source of overcrowding on GMRS in many places, though admittedly not all, is the cancer of ubiquitous linking to other repeaters and networks. I regularly read or hear that somebody, frequently a new licensee, is going to put up a repeater in his area. Hey, great idea, especially if you clear the hurdles of expense, finding a worthwhile site, obtaining low loss hardline and a decent antenna, as well as a repeater and duplexer. Unfortunately, the next thing out of their mouth is how they intend to link to this or that network, repeater(s), or whatever. WHY???? Again, WHY???? If you plan on putting up an open access, viable repeater with decent coverage footprint, you are on the way to doing a great community service and excellent philanthropic gesture. If you plan to clog it with duplicate conversations from another repeater or across the country, well not so much. We only have eight repeater channels in GMRS. Those same (output) channels are also our only 50 watt simplex channels. In some areas, a persons or group of persons have destroyed any hope of using most or all of those eight channels by piping in unnecessary garbage from around the country or even just another repeater. People in the next state, or the other end of the country jawjacking being piped into the local repeater(s) do nothing to enhance local communications between family, friends, or others. These continuous conversations negate people from using the local repeater or 50 watt simplex channel they are on. Even if just two repeaters are linked, you might have five or more operators jawjacking on one, but their lengthy conversation makes the other unuseable for the family or friends trying to keep in touch if they have bad cellular reception or perhaps their cell network is down. For as far back as I can recall, the FCC has forbidden autopatch use on Class A CB/GMRS. My guess is, they feared such would tie up the limited frequencies with phone calls. In my experience with autopatched ham repeaters, the calls were always brief, a very few minutes or less, and were not an issue. These networked or linked GMRS repeater conversations can go on for hours, tying up multiple repeaters and multiple frequencies in a given area with convos that are taking place on one repeater. This is not a good thing and is not in keeping with the original intent of Class A/GMRS. The FCC would do well to outlaw internet linking across the board and restore GMRS somewhat to its original intent, rather than being ham radio lite. In a lot of areas, this would greatly reduce congestion. Are you listening, FCC?

There is an anomaly when using the weather alert on the KG-935G and the KG-XS20G. When selected 'On' and scanning in area A, the scan will be continuously interrupted while it interrogates the NOAA weather channels for an alert tone. This is very distracting and inefficient. There are two ways to work around this "feature"; (1) Turn off weather alert or (2) Set your scan in area B where it will not be interrupted. The weather scan only occurs in area A. If you find your scan still being interrupted by the weather frequencies, no matter what you do, then set Scan Mode to 'CO'