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While some of the advantages of linking repeaters is nice the whole concept of using many of the only 8 repeater channels makes it unappealing. And especially when a "club" owns said repeaters on a paid only subscription base. Add a dozen more channels and designate a few of them for linking and that might fix it.

Shot yourself in the foot right there.... if its a short distance use class, linking repeaters makes it no longer short distance....

I submitted an email to the white house. hopefully someone actually reads this.

Bert, You forget TWO Important Facts that didn't occur to you before you wrote that. 1. GMRS is intended to be a Short range communication service, Not meant for nationwide comms. 2. you Only have 8 Repeater pairs in which to operate repeaters on, which is approx. 180 mhz. bandwidth. WHY would someone 200 miles away have to be Forced to listen to traffic by a couple of operators on a linked system, not even in their area ? After you get 4 or 5 Linked networks across the U.S. saturating the 8 Repeater pairs we're allowed to use for the entire country, the signal to noise ratio goes UP, sometimes even creating interference for low power or Local repeaters. My suggestion to you, is IF you want to enjoy Long Distance Comms state to state, maybe take the test for your Technician Amateur Radio License, then you could operate on Many of the LEGAL Linked repeater systems we're Allowed to operate ? Both the Two meter and 70 Centimeter { Vhf and Uhf } bands have More than enough Bandwidth to support many Linked systems. Gmrs does Not have the Bandwidth needed to allow linking. I hope this sheds some light for you.

To quote Steely Dan “no static at all” Perhaps an exaggeration but clearer audio I’m guessing and some might see the lack of traffic as a plus. Just a thought.

I wasn't referring to Line A. You said "95.1763 is gone altogether." It's there. If you meant Line A wasn't mentioned in 1763, then your wording was bad.

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I'm from Poplar Bluff, we have been hit with everything including the kitchen sink. My family and I are fine. All my friends on Facebook come to me for weather reports. So I've been quite busy here lately. Welcome all new members to Missouri GMRS. Feel free to make new topics. Once I get everything setup over here at the home 20 (10-20 home location), I will be back on here. This weather has been unreal and unpredictable lately. If anyone is close to Poplar Bluff, I hang out on 462.600mhz. I've been working on putting up a new cb radio base antenna and working on a base radio lately. But I'm not far away from the group. I've noticed everyone who joined. Sorry for my tardiness. If you all have any questions about GMRS, don't hesitate to ask. I've been on it for 4 years. Once I started watching notarubicon on YouTube, I got interested in gmrs. All thanks to Randy (notarubicon). Still working on buying a new repeater. The poor man repeater I had, quit working on me. But that doesn't stop me from communicating on gmrs. There a few gmrs repeaters in other towns close to PB. Yet me and my pal WRKR654 are on channel 17, 462.600. Ya all have a good one, I shall return.