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Members of the AZ GMRS Repeater Club will be wheeling their first of many to come Off-Road Trail Run Thursday, December 19, 2024, in the Area of Indian Fort, in the Table Mesa Recreation Area, off of Interstate 17, north of Phoenix, between Black Canyon City and Anthem. The run is not exclusive to just Jeeps. The run is open to any vehicle that is conducive for off-road adventuring. The Trail Comm. Channel will be 462.700 (GMRS 21) with 250.3 Hz, (CTCSS Programming Code 38 for most radios). The group will stop along the trail for lunch.

You're a member of a Emergency Management Team using a Cheap Chinese Radio POS? I hope that this Emrrgency Management Team is not affiliated with any Public Safety Entity.

The Club believes the jammer was not a club member and probably not aware that the PT-T ID is needed for access because the MDC squawk is not repeated and that information was only provided to members through the website members only portion of the website and only the member can view their respective PT-T ID number. There hasn't been a problem since or at least no one has said anything if it has continued.

I don't know those details. About a year ago when the PT-T ID was implemented, the repeater owner did change the input Tone and just recently, the input Tone was changed again. The MDC squawk does not repeat. I would think if the jammer wants to decipher a PT-T ID, he would need to be close or at a high elevation point to someone transmitting the ID. The repeater is not near a large population center but does have a large coverage area footprint.

The members with non-compatible radios had to buy a compatible radio in order to have access. The repeater owner was having a problem with a constant jammer so he took action to eliminate the problem by controlling who has access.

They did have them back in the ASP days when they were ASP. They were cellular look-likes and they had them in the VHF, UHF, and of course the 800 bands. Those were the days when cellular was only 800 Megs.

One of my radio clubs in Arizona has issued every member a personal PT-T ID number for members only to have access to one of the Club's repeaters sites. The PT-T ID must be sent with the MDC signaling. Without the proper ID, the repeater will not open up.

Laird does not have a Glass-Mount antenna

I have very good luck with a Larsen Glass-Mount antenna. My VSWR on 462 megs is about 1.2:1 and 1.6:1 on 467 megs. https://www.arcantenna.com/products/pulse-larsen-kg450udpl-glass-mounted-whip-antenna

Who ever Midland has producing their antennae does a great job in producing a good antennae with good VSWRs on GMRS freqs. Unfortunately, the operating band range is very narrow and that is why they work great on GMRS freqs, if you have a good groundplane. And they do not require any tuning which is a good thing for a majority of the GMRS users. It is a great turn-key solution for most beginning GMRS users.

You need to ascertain the tuned center frequency of the Antenna. Your antenna requires tuning. If your VSWR is 1.2 at 462 Megs and 1.8 at 467 megs it is obviously that your antenna needs to be snipped some more if your desire is only talk to repeaters. If you desire to transmit to both mobiles and repeaters you might want to consider tuning for 465 megs.

Did anyone verify to see it the repeaters are owned by the same person? If so, the two could be configured in a true simulcast controlled system with voting receivers.

Why would it need to be Chirp compatible when the radio is pre-programmed with the five FCC allocated MURS channels that are compatible with other radios with the MURS channels?

That is a "Less Than An Accurate" statement. You'll need to show me any where in Part 95, subpart J, that your statement is accurate insofar as the limitation to only handheld transmitters and not mobile units, and the restriction/limitation on the effective range?

Your best bet is get a Business Radio License in the Club's name and use the Part 90.35 freqs. You might want to consider both VHF and UHF itinerant freqs for your license to avoid any frequency coordination. It is my understanding that the freq. coordinators have been reluctant to approve any applications for Statewide use because the itinerant freqs can be used for that purpose. Also, by rule, the UHF itinerant freqs are limited to 6 watts whereas with the VHF itinerants they can be 50 watts with the exception of a couple of the itinerants that are limited to 35 watts, which is no big deal. You can file for the new license on-line, it's pretty easy and I would submit your license for both analog and digital emissions for each freq and for Nationwide, not including Alaska and Hawaii. Your filing fees will be about $205 and again, by rule you won't have to go through any freq. coordination. The positive point of all of this is that your Club members won't need to get an individual license and they will be able to operate under the Club's Radio Station Authorization, but depending on the brand of the radio(s) they own, they may have to buy a real radio because they won't be able to program any Part 90 freqs in their POS CCR junk. In my Area, Phoenix, most of the commercial operations, at least the small operations, have migrated to FRS, or SMRs, or Cell Phones, and the VHF Part 90.35 freqs are no longer crowded. I very seldom hear anyone on a VHF itinerant freq. If you elect to go the Part 90.35 itinerant freq route, I would take a very hard look at the VHF Band since most if not all of your Club members may have to procure a real radio anyways. A lot less restrictions by going a Part 90.35 route. You just need to pick a band to use. One of the downsides to use a Part 90.35 freq. would be if you want to put a simplex base station or a repeater on the air. In that case you will need to go through frequency coordination and in the VHF and finding a couple of available freqs to marry up as a repeater pair in most Metropolitan and if not all rural areas, may be problematic. Finding a freq. pair in the UHF band may be a bit easier since the UHF band freqs are allocated in pairs whereas the VHF Band is not allocated in pairs and almost all of the VHF freqs are not dedicated/classed for just mobile or base operations, and can be used for either operation, except for just a few, and I mean, just a very small number of VHF freqs. are limited to a specific operation. At least you may have choices.

If a station that is located at a fixed location with a fixed base station type antenna, and transmits on a 467 main freq in order to communicate with another station such as a mobile, through a repeater, wouldn't that station become a control station? However, if that same station communicates direct to a mobile on a 462 main freq, wouldn't that station now become a base station? And isn't all that compliant with the rule?

I was in the process of my routine quarterly updating the radio codeplugs in all my mobiles and portables the last few days, and this morning, I had four Astro Sabers, model I. II, and IIIs, to finish up and I discovered that they were not transmitting the Inverted DPL Codes. I spent about an hour trying to figure out if it was a setting in the CPS, or the radios were way too old to transmit inverted DPLs. The radios did fine with the normal DPLs. I did have the Inverted Box Checked in both the conventional personality transmit and receive menus. The Astro Saber Radios would decode the Inverted DPL from a couple of my XTS5000 radios, but the XTS5000 Radios would not decode from the Astro Sabers when the XTS5000 decode feature was enabled. However, the XTS5000 radios would receive the transmission from the Astro Sabers Radio if the Decode feature was disabled and set for CSQ. I went over and over the CPS Conventional Personality and Zone Assignment settings in both the Astro 25 Portable CPS and the Astro Saber & XTS3000 CPS and everything was set correctly, at least I thought it was, and then a thought came to mind what may be contributing to the cause of the problem. As I was staring at the displays of both the XTS5000 and the Astro Saber Radios, I noticed that the "Talkaround/Direct" symbol in both displays was indicated on both radios, which they should be. Although, I do know for a fact that with the XTS1500, 2500, and 5000 series portable radios if you have a simplex channel selected, the Talkaround/Direct symbol (→) will automatically be displayed. After, I went back to a repeated channel with the Astro Saber radio and then back to a simplex channel, I noticed that the (→) symbol was not being displayed. Ah Ha! What I didn't realize is that with the Astro Saber and of course the XTS3000 Series Radios that is not the case now. So, with the (→) not being displayed maybe that has something to do with the "Talkaround/Direct Menu in the Astro Saber & XTS3000 CPS, I went into the CPS and sure enough the menu was not properly setup for the Inverted DPL codes for transmitting if the TalkAround/Direct Feature was enabled. With the Astro 25 Portable CPS when you have a simplex personality programmed, in the Zone Assignment Menu the T/A Direct column is grayed-out and you are restricted to making any entries, but that is not the case in the Astro Saber & XTS3000 Portable CPS and is not restricted, if the "TalkAround" Box is checked in the Talkaround Menu and the portable radio talkaround/Direct Feature is enabled, the radio will functioned as set. When I disabled the Talkaround/Direct Feature on the Astro Saber, the XTS5000 Radio was able to receive the Astro Sabers' Inverted DPL transmission when the decode feature was enabled. Problem solved. This will be the case if you reprogram a previously programmed Conventional Personality from a semi/duplex configuration to a simplex configuration which was in my case. If you add a new Conventional Personality, the box in the Talkaround Menu will not be checked. Over time and after programming a gazillion XTS and XTL radios with both the Astro 25 Mobile and Portable CPS', who would have thought that going back and checking the Talkaround/Direct Menu to disable that feature in any of the early CPS'. Well now, that will be something that I will be doing from now-on. What I did was I created my own problem. As I was going through checking my programming on the various channels, I activated the Talkaround Feature on the Astro Saber Radio so I wouldn't activate a repeater nearby on one of the channels, because I didn't want to take the time to connect the radio to a dummy load, and then I went to a Zone with all simplex channels and some of them with Inverted DPLs. The end result of this was the fact that the radio worked as designed and all I had to do is go back in uncheck a few boxes. Lesson learned. At least, I figured it out on my own.

Same here with the sellers "no returns" or "as-Is", but eBay guarantees that you are getting what is advertised. That means if the listing doesn't say "Parts Only" or if it says does not work, etc. than it is guaranteed by eBay to work. Some will say that it worked when it was shipped and that doesn't matter what the seller says. Don't forget to request a returned shipping label when you contact the seller for a return. If the contact page does not allow you to return than contact eBay and they will take care of it. I have bought new, still in the box, never-used Motorola stuff at great prices like a Repeater Station, chargers, Battery Maintenace System, and various accessories, XTS5000 portables, and recently a Kenwood Mobile. Those new, never-used, still in the box stuff do pop up every so often. A lot of these deals are hard to pass up and that is why I have more radios and stuff than a normal human being would ever need in a lifetime.

Don't run the radio ground/negative lead directly to the battery. Always ground directly to a factory chassis grounding point. The radio manufacturers such as Motorola makes a point in their radio installation instructions where to terminate the radio ground lead and it is not at the battery. You can be rest-assured that their engineers know what they are talking about regarding the proper procedure for grounding the radio and accessories. "Some People" are not Electrical or Automotive Engineers.

The Dash 1 Band Split is perfect for me as I won't be using any 2M freqs. I operate on freqs. between 151 and 159 Megs.

Why is that? You don't like that rule and/or our government?

The Arizona GMRS Repeater Club in the Phoenix Sun of the Valley, as a service to the GMRS community, provides traffic and weather information every weekday morning and afternoon commutes on the 462.550 repeater channel every 15 minutes between 0630-0900 & 1630-1830 hours. More information is available at www.azgmrs.org

Yes it is a VHF radio. The dash 1 in the model number means the band split is 146-174 MHz and the "H" means it's the high powered 45 watt version and the actual RF output is 49+ watts.

It's worth a try! https://powerwerx.com/dc-line-noise-filter-powerpole-connectors

I was able to find a complete brand new still in the box a Kenwood TK780H-1 for $150. I received the radio today.