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If you want to keep your family and friends only repeater private, don't list it on mygmrs.com. Also, I would split the tones and use CTCSS on the downlink/repeater output side and an Inverted DPL/DCS code on the uplink/repeater input side.

Clearly you are too young to have lived through the Franchise-Wars of the 1990's ...

There, fixed that for ya.

One of them needs to change frequencies. Are the other seven repeater pairs occupied?

Done, thanks!

I have a $18 WiFi electric switch connected to my repeater so I can shut it down from my phone from anywhere (with internet connection).

They need the tones to key up the repeater but they do not need to key up the repeater to jam it.

Here's what it looks like on my GM-30 with no programming....fresh from the factory if you will...

Yes. I just got the Baofeng GM-15 Pro software installed and started using it so I don't know a lot yet but so far, so good. I did notice that some of the TX frequencies on the DIY channels are not correct. I haven't tried to contact Baofeng about it yet. Edit: Just noticed the one I posted is wrong.

"All restaurants are Taco Bell."

The best part of that article is that the person in the photo is using MURS. I guess Walmart and fast food restaurants have proven to be formidable enemies.

That article isn't biased at all

I never hear the health net reports on UHF/VHF. Seems the Tapeworm Net and the Sweaty Piles Net are usually on 75m (HF CB Radio).

Also, after a battery has been reconditioned and the resulting capacity is below 80%, I replace the battery and no longer use them. Batteries below 80% capacity just don't provide a long duty cycle between charge cycles.

Lithium batteries have a great self life over NiMH and NiCAD batteries. They will keep their charge capacity nearly at full charge for a long time where as NiCAD batteries have one of the worst self discharge rate with NiMH batteries a little better than NiCAD. Also, NiCAD batteries need to be exercised and conditioned regularly or they will eventually fail with a short service life. NiMH batteries have a little better service than NiCAD but no where near as a Lithium battery. I have a couple Lithium batteries that are approx. 10 years old and they still reconditioned above 90% capacity. Also, if you put NiCAD and/or NiMH batteries on the shelf or they have been sitting on the shelf before their initial use for long periods of time, you may need to "reform" the battery in order for them to relearn their use and charge duty cycles or they will perform with short use duty cycles between charge cycles. In otherwords, you need to take care if them and make them happy or they will just be pissed off and not perform as expected. I learned this from a class that Alexander Battery or was it Multiplier, I don't remember now it was one of them, hosted at an APCO National Convention back in the 90s. Following this practice I feel has given me great longevity for the batteries whereas I have seen people not performing good maintenance were constantly replacing batteries prematurely.

Ok thank you very much, I'll try that (CCard) then. And thank you as well Sshannon. 73's,,,,,,,,,,oops!

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I have that antenna. There is nothing high-capacity about it. IDK why he is worried about hydration, DE is so flat the water won't roll off of it.

1. Agreed, but that’s statistically less likely and thus not as easy as scanning for the output tone. 2. They truly never need the output tone. They only need the input tone. 3. I bet the inexpensive Baofeng UV5R can scan for every tone, standard or not. It’s the expensive radios that are less capable of using non-standard tones.

No, because scanning for the input tone isn’t as easy as scanning for the output tone. Make them different. Also, most people are honest and will honor your rules. But if you’re thinking about making your repeater a money making scheme beyond costs you might want to review the regulations.

About all you can do is change the tones. But that still won't stop people from scanning for the new tones. As mentioned, you can get a remote switch to shut the repeater down or use a controller to remotely access the repeater to make changes. We have tones set for transmit and receive on our GMRS repeater. People can still hear the repeater on the corresponding simplex channel without any tones set. And since they can hear the repeater, they can also scan for the PL tones.

Unless you never transmit to it you can’t because any transmission can be scanned. That has nothing to do with the repeater brand or model. If you need security neither GMRS nor ham radio are appropriate.

If by "private" you mean, "no one else can use the repeater" (or at least "someone needs the non-standard tone to use the repeater"), sure. If by "private" you actually mean PRIVATE, like no one else can hear you, that's absolutely not the case. Anyone listening to the repeater with squelch tones turned off can hear everything. But you knew that, right? Keep in mind that someone doesn't need your secret tone to jam your repeater, either.

Thanks for the input. This looks interesting. It seems that Menus 16 and 16 have only On or Off choices. I'll play with them to see what they do. I now have a second RA25 on the way which will go in our UTV. So I'll have two identical radios to see how they behave with these settings talking to each other.

Thank you Sshannon. I believe you're correct. I think my radio is just fine.

That worked! Thanks. My mistake was looking for a code with a D in it, instead of just using the number.

I find it mildly amusing that the Patriot Radio Frequency link shows a big-ole American flag, the American eagle, an excerpt from the United States Constitution, and a Chinese radio. I get that it's dang hard to find radios made right here in good-ole 'Murica, but it seems a little ironic.

It helps if you can read Chinese too.

Try an earphone to see if that works. If it does it might be the switch in the earphone jack.

As it's been said, and will be said again.....if you must buy junk, buy cheap junk.

The FCC website timing out is nothing new. It did that when I applied for my FRN, GMRS license, and amateur license last fall. The FCC site is like radio propagation, sometimes its great and other times its not.

You see about the same thing at this site too. On this site the faces are blotted out to protect the guilty. https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/

With the EFHW, you can pick to either cover the digital/cw portion of 80, or the phone portion. I chose digital. The 7510 is phone portion of 80, and the 8010 is digital portion of 80. I've used it on phone, SWR is something like 5:1, was only used for quick checkins to an 80 meter net.

ITs been like this for a week now. I have multiple changes to process. Guessing the squirrels took a nap.

You’re not wrong in saying so and this thread is barely if at all clearing the trees from the Mygmrs rules number 7 found here. Also no offense intended.

Shame on you Randy, you got Marc hooked on 4 wheeling. His kids will starve now.

You are free to skip threads you do not find particularly interesting or beneficial. No offense intended.

This is only true if you are trying to use a scan feature built into a radio. If someone is using a standalone decoder or if their radio has a decoder, they can decode any custom tones if they are close enough to a user or if those custom tones are used on the output. Radios as little as $35 have decoders in them and you can buy a standalone decoder for just a few $$$.

Ham radio is aimed at people who are interested in the science and technology of radio communications. People who just want to communicate have to jump through some hoops to become a ham. GMRS is easier, covers your entire extended family, and doesn’t require jumping through hoops. Just pay your $35.

The first GMRS radio I used was a MT2000. I programmed a couple local repeaters in my company radio and this was back in the mid 90s. My company car had a GE S825 so I programmed a couple GMRS channels in that radio. I ended up buying a MT2000 for my first GMRS radio. I carried my portable when I wasn't in my company car but I did have most of the company channels programmed in my personal radio. I ended up retiring in 2006 and I had to give up all my radio toys and the company car. My first mobile GMRS radio was a Motorola MCS2000. I needed a radio that would accommodate other UHF freqs than just GMRS. I also have a Business Radio Service Part 90 license. I don't recall what was on the market for cheap GMRS radios around 2006 or even if Midland was into GMRS or not at that time. I did end up buying a Midland MXT400 several years ago and then a Midland MXT500 a few years ago. I sold the MXT400 and I still have the MXT500 radio. The MXT500 radio is the radio I loan out to my radio-less friends on Driving Tours and Trail runs They are good radios as a simple easy to use radio. I just wanted more radio features so I started buying Motorola XTL5000 both Dash and Remote Mounts and some XTL2500 radios. Currently, I have two high powered XTL5000 remotes, two Mid Power XTL5000 remotes, and two XTL5000 Dash mounts, and three XTL2500 remotes, and I still have the MCS2000 radio. Last year, I won a refurbished Kenwood TK880 as a raffle prize and I use that radio in one of my cars that won't accommodate the installation of a mobile radio. As for portables, I have well over 40 portables of various Motorola types of VISAR, HT1000, MT2000, MTS2000, Astro Sabers, XTS1500, XTS2500, XTS3000, XTS5000, and DTR700. I do not own any CCRs, except for a Wouxun KG1000G +. I had to see what was all the excitement about this radio. I wasn't impressed at all. Maintaining the batteries is a real chore every couple of months. I should be conditioning batteries every 30 days however, I just have too many batteries to keep up with them.

Voice Scramblers works well, especially in the Hytera radios.. But problem with that, everyone needs a like radio. Other problem, if anyone worries about it. FCC Illegal for GMRS. But still quite a few still use it.

Yes for many people No for many people. The moral of the story is: Buy what best suits your wants, needs, and desires in a radio, and don't worry about what other people prefer.

You hear the same crap about CW too. If you can't "beep" at 25 WPM you're not a real Ham.

Sadly. Don't use the repeater is the answer. The only way to stop a tone decoder is to not have transmissions with the tone encoded. Hell we have one local guy, sits in a tow truck between calls and tries to find repeaters. He is proud of finding hidden repeaters. He has every tone programmed on every repeater pair. Basically tried to brute force method to find repeaters. He gets a repeater tail and he is happy. Just be prepared to change tones if someone starts interfering. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

Menu 15 adjusts TX compander. Menu 16 is for RX compander, or noise reduction. I would play with them both to see if they help. They use gain control to perform their their actions. Interestingly to me the Retevis radio includes a menu 14 Scramble. The manual for the DB20G skips from 13 to 15.

Don't worry, Ray. This is just some local yokel playing dress-up. He just got back from the Army-Navy store.

Unless you are trying to bounce your signal off the moon, just mount your antenna in the best spot you can, as high as you can get it, and it will work fine for for highway/trail comms. My antenna is mounted above the rear tail-light/rear fender of my jeep, below the roofline, where many "experts" warned me it "will not work". and while it certainly does not work as well as it could, it works just fine. I can hit a repeater with it at 92 miles and regularly get 20+ miles on simplex and have never had issues on the trail where i could not hear someone that others could, or they could not hear me. My two words of advice are: 1) ignore the 'experts' B ) - dont over-think it.

I had to do that when I did a minor mod to add a "tiger tale"

I was thinking that is was a GMRS repeater since there is enough space between 70cm frequencies and GMRS channels. As far as conversations, I hear all kinds of topics on 2m, 70cm and GMRS. If I don't want to listen, I turn the dial to a different channel/frequency.

Sounds like WRHW499, a GMRS call from Michigan.