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This is why I asked the OP what APRS functionality he wanted: many people don’t even know what APRS is or how it works. They may think they want APRS, when all they want to do is see where their wife is while she’s driving home. That can be done with a Garmin Rhino, or even a GMRS Pro, but can also be done with a cell phone. APRS isn’t necessary for that. Or does he want weather stations or the ability to send a text message in the very least convenient way possible?

Man, those DIP switches go back a way! My wife's grandmother gave the wife her old IC2AT. It was probably one of the first ht's that did not require crystals for frequency changes. It had thumbwheel frequency selection on top and no PL encode or decode. It did have a DTMF keypad on the front. There were only a couple of repeaters you could use it on locally, but it was a cool piece of yesteryear technology.

Simply say: “Can anyone hear me? WRPJ403”. If someone is listening they might respond.

Not to mention the advantage of APRS is the infrastructure. 144.390 is all over the county, albeit lacking in some areas but its the same. We can't get repeaters to work together where are you going to find one frequency in GMRS to use all over the county and not interfere with someone else. Use HAM radio if you want to use APRS

Why and for what possible good reason? Once again, it sounds like someone wanting to turn GMRS, with its very limited bandwidth, into "ham radio lite". Rather than additionally trashing our already scarce bandwidth, why not get a book, study it for a week or few, and get your Technician license? Then play with gizmo gadgetry where there is adequate bandwidth and existing infrastructure for it until you heart is content

Hi Kent, I’m not near you, but lots of people here are willing to answer questions posted here. What are you trying to do? What kind of radio do you have?

I had six of those at one time, great radios

I purchased a pair of Pofung BF-T11 FRS radios from Amazon and one had bad audio. Amazon sent me two more and told me to keep the originals, so now I have 3 good working ones.

Are you able to transmit 462.550 simplex on another channel using the CPS programming software?

@rdunajewski problem corrected. Thank you.

Well to be fair... Having aprs like service for family is kinda a cool idea. But omg, that would make gmrs so much worse. With the network being over congested with packets. Hmm, i want to update every 30 sec, so I can track everything. To loosing, a channel for a dedicated aprs frequency or worse having aprs packets on every channel. The unaware don't realize that the amateur aprs frequency is lost to anything but aprs traffic, yes i know voice alert. As well as it is noisy as hell. With voice alert, any transmission basically halt traffic till it clears. Depending on the node, it can have a backup from 13 billion weather stations ¹/4 mile apart. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Exactly. I'm puzzled why more people don't get their Tech Class license. My brother took me to a Ham swap that had testing. I never went to one before and was interested to see what they had for sale. Then he just said, out of the blue, I'll pay the testing fee if you just try it. I said OK and winged it. Walked out with a passing grade, no studying. That's how I got started in Ham Radio. It seems more and more people want to add things to GMRS, that deviates further from the FCC's stated purpose for GMRS, as you put it trying to turn it in to a Ham-Lite type service. I think it just comes down to being lazy with excuses why they can't take a few minutes several times a week to study and take the test. They just want to pay the $35 fee, then go out and buy a cheap Chinese radio.

I have heard the morse code but when i did not key the mike. Thanks for the replys

Please try now, I fixed the issue.

Speaking of infrastructure. I wonder how many of millions $$$ cumulatively clubs have spent to set up digipeaters. Just for the end user to have aprs functionality, not talking about the hobbies style with a Pico and baofeng. But rather an actual integrated ht or or mobile. There are no ht units sub $250, avg about $400+. Mobiles are the usually $300+. Higher then most gmrs users are willing to pay. If the FCC was considering having aprs down the road, I don't think they would of specifically said, ok you get a little digital (thx garmin for lobbying for this, not aure how much you guys paid), but you can't use it on the repeaters. In fact, any radio that has the capability must not have the functionality on the repeater pairs for type certification. This alone leads me to believe the FCCs attitude to be. You want it? We got a tech license for you to get, they have it. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Why not just spend the money on a good used Kenwood repeater ? In the end it will work much better.

Yup. Thats why my repeater are closed and not listed. Even my 2meter repeater is not listed anyplace. I spend lots of time and money to keep these on the air for my use and not others.

Don't do this. I combined two G+s.....with horrendous results. Just ordered a Bridgecom BCR-40DU w/ an BCD-440. Got to be better than what I tried. WRXU693 James James

One of the more irritating things is when I'm confronted by non-paying, non-member users of my semi-private amateur repeater that has arguably the best coverage in southern California on the rare occasions when it's down. Which is almost always through no fault of the repeater.

I have to get my wattmeter out and check mine.

Not everybody wants to get an amateur license.