KekistaniRefugee

Thank you very much, this map really helped me this morning in seeing it like that, I didn’t realize there was a map view.

Ahhh! Thank you so much! It finally clicked in my head, or was that the repeater sound? With your and others help I can hit two different repeaters in my area this morning! I guess I was over complicating things instead using the available frequencies! Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it. One more tool in the tool belt now. And I really enjoy Notarubicon’s videos as well, I know he doesn’t poke fun at newbies and that’s what I like about him, he wants people to be able to enjoy the hobby.

I kind of thought so. That would make sense to me as well, thank you.

Well while I have you here answering my ridiculous nooby questions that hope don’t get highlighted in a Notarubicon video, I noticed that on the repeater channels they are set to narrow band. Should I leave it that way or change it to wide band?

Oh my… please don’t answer that last reply, I just realized in the back of the manual the repeater channels are all designated already. I was thinking that the repeaters use unique frequencies.

Thank you for your response. In the picture I posted that’s where I got this information for the repeater I’m trying to hit. But since there are 8 repeater channels, how would I know which one is the right one I’m trying to reach?

I applied to join a GMRS group where I am but I haven’t heard back yet. There is a repeater about 10 miles from me and I thought this radio would be able to reach it but maybe there is too much in the way? Geographically I’m up on a hill, so there are a lot more trees than buildings in the way. There are some guys in this group that are well over 10 miles from me talking to each other and I can hear them clearly, but I can’t seem to reach them and I’m just trying to understand why that is. So the owner of a repeater can restrict access even if someone is tuned in and the tone is set correctly?

Thank you for your response. So I have cleared out the RX tone, but how would I know what to set the tone to? Is there a way of finding out what tone a repeater is using?

Hello, I have a question about programming my radio to specific repeaters in my area instead of using just the preprogrammed repeaters. So here’s the deal, I have followed Notarubicon’s work for a while and he got me into GMRS. I’ve had a CB radio for years and now and I’m excited to get into a new hobby. I plan on buying the Midland MXT575 in the near future as well. I have followed the instructions to the letter and I still don’t know what I’m doing wrong because I can’t hit a repeater. Preprogrammed or not. I have the freq set on 462.675. The TX tone is set to 123 Hz. I have tried the RX tone on the same 123 Hz but apparently not a lot of repeaters use that. I didn’t mess with the offset or freq shift since that seems to be for HAM. I have programmed 462.675 and 467.675 into the memory (as shown in the second video), this is on channel 5 and 28 by the way. I have also tried this same thing on channel 127 another time. And yes I am doing this from the keypad on the radio and not through Chirp. The bottom line is this, when I try to key up on these channels that I have tried to set to a repeater, it won’t even key up. It doesn’t show the radio is transmitting at all, the screen doesn’t turn Orange indicating I am transmitting, nothing. But if I go up or down a channel, it begins transmitting normally when I press the PTT. I have occasionally gotten traffic on the programmed channels when people have been on, which I thought was interesting since I can’t transmit. Needless to say, I am stumped. I have followed the instructions completely step by step in both videos but there must still be something I am missing or doing wrong or maybe they are faulty radios? I have two of them and they both do the same thing. So if anyone one out there can help me with this issue, I would be forever grateful. I haven’t been able to make contact with anyone through these radios yet and it has been discouraging to say the least. And yes I fully blame you, Notarubicon, for getting me into this mess. And yes I know you’re reading this because you’ve told me I am your favorite viewer. I appreciate you noticing me by the way. (I’m -mostly- kidding for those who have trouble reading between the lines). Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. I have watched this video: I have even watched this video: