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Your radio has the ability to occasionally send it’s location. If so I would assume that would happen on whatever channel you were tuned to before you started the scan. Maybe that activity causes it to stop.

Well GMRS was never intended to be social media so in the context of attracting young people it may not be easy, other than again for it's intended purpose, camping, boating, hiking, off roading, farming, emergency comms, even some business use etc. Anyway it is just a tool and if it is not the right tool for the job at hand then find the one that is.

And this is the reason the HAM radio repeaters are quiet. GMRS has in a way turned into HAM radio, going beyond what it was intended for. The original intent was for situations that you needed communications, but didn't want to go the full route of a commercial license on Itinerant frequencies or MURS. GMRS is a nationwide license (commercial frequencies outside SOME itinerant licenses are NOT nationwide) you can use with family, and other license holders. We of course have transitioned beyond that to rag chew when it's not being used for the original intent. Repeater linking is a lot of what makes that possible. I have 3 repeaters on the tower. One is the tower owners (725). It is open but all users are requested to use my unlinked repeater (675) for local comms unless the repeater is busy. Then there is the 600 that is linked. It gets a bunch of traffic. Some of it is local traffic for the link but much of it is from other repeaters on the system. The 675 see's maybe 3 hours of use a week and the 725 see's less than that. So area of coverage has a lot to do with how busy a repeater system will be. Stand alone repeaters in medium to low population densities are not going to have much traffic outside the system owners. Large multistate systems that cover multiple high density population centers (Chicago, Indy, Columbus, Milwaukee, and most of the state of Indiana and Illinois) will obviously be busy because there are more people in the coverage area so you have a higher possibility of people being licensed in the coverage area. You mentioned pre-arranged comm's. That's a NET in ham radio. And we do see traffic during nets on ham. But very little normal conversation. And in truth, everyone has a cell phone. Your wife, the kids, the neighbor down the street. So when you tell Jr to take a portable radio you get met with "Dad, I have a phone, I don't NEED this stupid thing" or better yet, try putting an antenna on the wives car. "That ugly shit is NOT going on MY car." Figure out how to get past that and you are getting somewhere. Otherwise, be happy that you have a hobby that you enjoy and hope it doesn't go away in your lifetime.

Explanation is clear. ChatGPT was never born out of woman's womb. It never was raised by a human family, acquiring a life experience as it grows. It never was sitting next to its grampa on a couch begging money for an ice cream when 6yo. It never went to school, never worked in a fast food joint or coffee shop, never volunteered for cleaning local creek or cleaning local streets. It was never a member of a local gang either. It never was a hand to an experienced machinist or chef or painter, a creator of things to use or admire by others. It was never bitten by mosquitos in the warm night, never slept in a flooded tent in a cold night, never had a perfect morning (or afternoon) lying next to someone. Never lost a significant one to anything, and never even had a significant one. It's Large Language Model is trained on the internet, on the post like yours, mine, and from a certain someone. What else can one possibly expect?

Because Imagine what would happen if someone used non-standard phonetics on GMRS. Think of the children!

The ducting is happening in the morning and in the evening as temperatures swing greatly in a short period of time. 10m is on fire basically from around 9am to around 6pm

With Respect To Grindr 259

99.99% of hams i have met in person were very pleasant and are not sad-hams. It's when you go online that the sad-hams thrive, and thats where the young people go to learn, and often the first thing they run into is a sad-ham. That is what happened to me - I went online and had the audacity to ask questions about the test or electrical theory or something that I didnt understand, and it was quickly made clear to me that people asking such questions were not welcome in this exclusive club. Not just once, but multiple times, in multiple places. I see it here every day, and have even seen it a few times already in this thread. HUNDREDS of my viewers have also commented on my videos that the exact same thing happened to them, so the impact of sad-hams cannot be denied.. I am actually thankful because when the sad-hams turned me off from ham I found GMRS and realized that I dont want/need a "hobby", I just needed a better way to communicate on the trail - and GMRS does that perfectly for me. The sad part is that most sad-hams dont realize that they are the ones giving a bad name to their hobby, and also giving me more material to make fun of.

I just want to know if you guys are making it do dinner on the 25th. All this other stuff is a silly distraction. LoL