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All I can say is that is everyone's individual right to vote or not to vote. I have been stationed all over the world and there is still no where else I would want to live. I gave a good many years of my life defending the rights we hold dear. I only want to see everyone exercise those rights.

Anybody can complain about the government. That’s part of the first amendment, but failing to vote means you missed your opportunity to do something about it. .

It’s hard to complain about the anchovies on your pizza if you don’t speak up when the order goes in. my food analogy to voting.

Politicians don’t tell me that, common sense does. People that don’t vote are welcome to complain, but I won’t listen because they helped enable the problem.

You mean the Vibrasenders and Vibrasponders? The old Micors use to have a nice distinct hum on 192.8 Hz especially on a Lowband Simulcast System with Micor Stations using the Motorola HSOs. You can hear the reeds vibrate on the air when the system was keyed. That hum kinda went away with the eprom stations.

First, for every channel, remove any CTCSS tones or DCS codes on both transmit and receive. Then just change them both to the same channel and you should be able to transmit from one to the other. Don’t try to transmit from one to the other when they’re just a few feet (or inches) from each other. That can cause desensing, which is when the strong transmit power from one overwhelms the sensitive receiver of the other. Put some distance between them. Good luck!

Or is that Access Requests have been disabled by owner?

It seems to be a regional thing. Some people claim it's dead but around the greater Houston area, it's alive and well.

No they are not. This is the forum which is public. The tones on the map repeater site is not public. You need to be signed in to see them. In case you missed my previous post. Per the owner of this site @rdunajewski the rules are as follows with an explanation of why. Private content. Do not post sensitive information such as repeater PL/DPL (also known as privacy or CTCSS/DCS tones) tones outside of the Private Discussion forum. This is to protect sensitive information from being picked up and indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing. Also, do not post any personal information about our members, including but not limited to, their home address even if it is publicly available by searching online General Discussion is not in the private discussion forum. Here is a complete list of this sites rules . I don’t make the rules of the forum but I try follow them. You may want to note number one since you signature is an advertisement.

Bluemax49ers has been my source for cables for most of the LMR radios in my collection, and some of the software as well. It does look like he has a cable for those Icoms, too, with an option to add the software. https://bluemax49ers.com/product-explorer/icom-ic-f21gm-ftdi-programming-cable-opc-i478/

You worry too much my friend. You don't need to apologize. I have no intentions of protesting, no matter which way the election goes. That's just how it works. Whoever is elected will be my president, even if I disagree with them. And in two more years the cycle of campaigning will begin again. If I could change one thing it would be to prohibit campaigning until 30 days before the primaries. If they cannot make their case in 30 days they shouldn't be running.

I've Spoke with the owner and its up and running as far as he knows but he's out of state and is looking into it.

Thanks, I was not on the repeater channel. Same frequency, different channel. It shows the offset when transmitting on the proper channel. Appreciate the help for the newbie!

I think you are overdoing the security aspect. Using a digital signal such as DMR or NXDN would probably be all the security your son's team would need. While you re not supposed to use digital signaling in the FRS or MURS bands, a few radios operating low power would probably be dismissed by most people. The limited power, 2 W or less will also limit interference to others.

Just to clarify, those tones are well within the range of human hearing. For comparison the lowest note on a piano is 27.5 Hz (lowest A). After the tones are no longer needed, but before being converted to audio, radio circuitry filters out everything below 300 Hz to prevent us from hearing the tones.

Horizontal is used a lot for HF where you get skip but I doubt it would be useful for UHF. Especially since you will loose some because of the change in polarization.

I’m just splurging on holidays… Christmas Day, Veterans Day, Thursday, Friday etc…

So sad, another one bites the dust! (welcome to the cult)

Which isn’t accessible unless you’re registered with your license on the site. So just a heads up it is against this sites rules to do so outside of the Private Discussion form for reasons stated below. For that reason I keep at least the name of the repeater unknown while discussing the particulars. Private content. Do not post sensitive information such as repeater PL/DPL (also known as privacy or CTCSS/DCS tones) tones outside of the Private Discussion forum. This is to protect sensitive information from being picked up and indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing. Also, do not post any personal information about our members, including but not limited to, their home address even if it is publicly available by searching online.

You might try Palmetto GMRS Columbia 725 and ask permission. Should cover your area also. WRVZ964 patrick wharley

I’m sure some days are better than others… atmospheric conditions and such. And I guess if you’re out of range then you’re out of range.

I just drove our little mountain and parked at about 5,600ft elevation trying to make a contact on LSB,USB, and AM. No luck today. I was in my truck using the QT80. Saturday I'm doing a charity ride event in my jeep and I hope I will have the opportunity to test the QT40 while driving the route the coordinators picked out.

The "Old People" community I live in should be Goblin and candy free which is a good thing because most of the residents shouldn't be eating the candy for various and obvious medical reasons. That should mean there will be no doorbell ringing thus waking people up.

If you're really thinking of spending $75 on programming software, I would recommend spending the same amount of money to get more current radios instead.

I would have expected that laying it flat against the ground plane would cause it to reflect a lot. So I gave it a try. Standing up, at 465MHz, on a pizza-pan ground plane, it measured 1.6:1. Laid flat it measured 2.3:1. So it got worse, but not terribly so. Nevertheless, VHF and UHF FM is supposed to be vertical polarization. Orienting the antenna horizontally isn't going to really help anything except clearing your garage roof. However, at 2m, it got much, much worse. Something like 5:1. I didn't write it down. But standing in the upright position, in the 2m band, it's down to about 1.2.1. Your mileage may vary. Laying it flat against a larger ground plane, one with a radius large enough that the entire antenna is adjacent to the metal ground plane, is going to be a lot worse. Maybe bad enough that "some people" would be right. I know even in the vertical position, I was having reflection / high SWR issues when I put reflectix along side the antenna to cover the opening necessitated by a window air conditioner in sideways sliding windows.

Thank You! I'm glad to add my 10 cents when I can. After all, you look at same well I don't want step over or out of line. No one has to force a religion or political beliefs on anyone. We all, have our own paths some maybe similar, but that what's make life interesting, at least from my view. God Bless & Be Well!

Yup, no offset on any of the the non-repeater channels. Good job figuring it out!

You certainly haven’t offended anyone yet! If all you want to do is listen, simply make sure all of the CTCSS tones or DCS codes are cleared out and set the radio to scan all of the channels. GMRS and FRS have 22 channels for simplex communications, where radios take turns talking to each other one at a time, so radio A transmits to radio B on 462.550 MHz. When it’s done radio B transmits back on 462.550 MHz. 462.550 MHz is channel 15. There are eight main channels, which are numbered 15-22. They’re actually called the 462 MHz main channels in the regulations. Those eight channels are shared by people transmitting simplex to each other and by repeaters. Those are the only channels repeaters may transmit on and remain compliant with the regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-E?toc=1 But repeaters must receive signals at exactly the same time as they transmit. So they receive on frequencies that are 5 MHz higher so the received signal and the transmitted signal may be handled separately. Receiving and transmitting at the same time is called duplex (sometimes old people like me call it full duplex but most people simply say duplex.) The eight channels that handheld and mobile radios use to transmit to a repeater are called the 467 MHz main channels. GMRS radios are set up so when you’re tuned to one of the repeater channels your radio automatically transmits on one of the 467 MHz channels and receives on the 462 MHz channel exactly 5 MHz below it. Unfortunately, there’s no standard for how those repeater channels are labeled. Going back to the example 462.550/467.550 channel pair, that is called channel 23 by some radios and RP15 by others. If all you want to do is listen, leave the tone/codes out. But, if you want to transmit through a repeater, you almost always will be required to set a matching tone in your radio or the repeater will not allow your signal through from its receiver to its transmitter.

Big as in spent money

I've always read it as access request are disabled.

No...None of them are listed on the forum. 2 different sites.

That Laird 4502 is classy

I know laying the antenna flat on top of the roof is different from laying it flat in a back seat. But I know the 2x4SR does not work well when laid flat inside a vehicle. I have to agree that your propagation pattern will most likely be straight up in the air when laid flat.

I’ll throw my vote for the Midland MXTA26, I’ve been very happy with mine.

You are in good company

I can't say for sure myself obviously but I've heard that you also get unlimited reactions.

What time at rich's house i just signed up lol

The ability to buy and sell in the classified section and the ability to download database extracts from the repeater directory. No advertisements. Free beer at Rich’s house. Most importantly the knowledge that we help pay for the site.

Everything posted was listed when looking at repeaters on here.

Some people like to follow regulations. Using a certified radio makes it easy to select a channel and be sure it’s programmed to the right frequency, with the right offset (if any), at the right output power, and using the right bandwidth to avoid interfering with other channels and services.

RX = Receive TX = Transmit CCR is a derogatory and racially motived term that "some people" use when describing a radio that does everything their very expensive radio does, but it costs 10X less monies.

Feel free to toss them my way. I will add them to the collection of HTs that can't reach more than two miles in the woods. I hate trees.

Yeah, especially a PAID access repeater.

Well It's Not 14 Users Anymore, Since You Posted The DPL Tones On This Forum........... That Should NEVER Be Posted On A Social Media Site, For Anyone To Read..........

If one doesn't vote then one can't complain about the results. I would urge everyone to go and vote for the candidate of your choice. I don't care who it is. One buddy in my coffee group said if he doesn't like any of the candidates he just writes his own name in on the ballot, but he does vote.

I also haven’t given up hope and I’ve been voting for nearly fifty years. During that time I’ve seen both good and bad candidates from both parties, but I’ve always felt like my vote counts. And I’ve seen the difference in results, especially at the local and state level.

March 2024 Update from Bastrop, Tx. Alamo/New Braunfels is my closest repeater on the Alamo network. It is 70 miles away and pegs the meter on my KG-1000. Yesterday, I did a radio check and spoke to a 2 mobile units at both ends of 1604, east side and west side. They were as clear as day on my end and they heard me LC. What an awesome service to our Tx GMRS community. Many thanks to all involved.

I would think you would be able to hit at least one of the SA area repeaters, the guys have quite a network there. I'm using a Comet 712EFC base antenna tuned for GMRS and it seems to be great. The closest repeater to me is Austin 725 at about 20 miles. Can't hit that one but I can skip over that one to the repeater NW of Austin at 40+miles.