nokones

That sounds like the Texas GMRS Club.

By rule, a repeater owner may share the use of his/her repeater station and permits the owner total control of who is allowed to use the repearer. The GMRS Repeater Clubs I belong to regulates only Club members can have the tone information for accessing the repeater(s) that are owned by individual Club members. The Clubs do not charge a fee for access to the repeater station. They only charge a membership fee to be a member in the Club. The repeaters are actually owned by an individual GMRS licensee and not the Club itself. The Repeater Station ID reflects who is the individual owner of that Station. I believe the Clubs I am a member of are following the rule.

These says, the only place you'll find a CB Repair Shop is probably at a large Truck Plaza that has full services.

In my 23 Wrangler IZARUBICON 2 Dr. I have a XTL5000 Remote high-powered, of course, I set the max RF output power at 50 watts, for three reasons. 1) to be legal for GMRS; 2) I really don't need the extra power; 3) I don't want to max out the Aux 1 circuit with the XTL5000 at max power draw, a CB Radio, Streamlight Flashlight Charger, and a Dometic Refrigerator. In my racecar, I use a XTS1500 portable radio with a remote PT-T on the steering with the radio connected to a non-ground plane Antenex Phantom antenna mounted to my rollcage in the rear.

I have specific vehicles for off-roading and for staying on the pavement.

Nice collection of Kenwoods. That definitely beats my two TK880-1s.

In a couple of my Jeep groups I found that there is always a know-it-all Sad HAM Einstein with his dual purpose GMRS/HAM Boofwanger radio who refuses to program the designated trail comm channel for narrowband operation so all the Walmart/Amazon bubblepack radio users can understand what he is saying and not miss any syllables. Most of the time, these Sad Ham Einsteins are the Trail Leaders and when they are I have the designated Trail Comm channel programmed in my mobile and portable for wideband operation so I can understand what they are saying.

No, I forgot to count 3 more remote mobiles I have, and I just picked up another one yesterday and it's on its way on the little brown truck and that will make 16 total. Not sure why I bought it other than it's a great little compact radio which I'll end up using it as a loaner for my radioless Jeep and Porsche Club friends on Trail and driving tour runs so they don't have to use their useless CCR radios so they can have radio communicatioms in the group.

I have 39 portables (38 UHF and 1 VHF) and 12 mobiles all UHF. I am able to afford my radio hobby along with my car racing and other car (sport cars and Jeep) hobbies because I have a good income for the rest of my life.

The 8180 is the 30 watt version and the 8180H is the 45 watt version as previously mentioned. The 8180 30 watt version does have a low power setting of 1 watt and the low power setting for the 8180H is 10 watts but unfortunately the 10 watts is not legal for GMRS channels 1-7. Get the TK 8180. The difference between the two radios you will never know the difference between 15 watts in performance. It's only about a dB and a half less. In a group of other wheelers on the trail, more than likely the other wheelers are using either CCR POS junk or Walmart special bubblepack radios, in that case the TK 8180 30 watt version will be more than sufficient. Also, you can't go wrong with the cables built by Blue Max 49ers.

My first guess, something may not be properly grounded that may be contributing to the squeal on another device.

I would stay away from and don't spend your money on the CCR POS junk, and take a look at some of the Kenwoods and Motorolas that are offered for sale from several reputable used radio dealers that sell on eBay. There prices are very reasonable and there are various models that should meet your needs and last a long time. Also, I have both a Cobra 25 LTD Classic CB and a Motorola XTL5000 Remote setups in my 23 Wrangler Rubi 2 Dr.

In response to the comment made about losing radio coverage when changing from wideband operation to narrowband operation, I was unable to identify any loss of radio coverage or poor audio quality for the public safety radio system that I was responsible for. Maybe that was because we were using quality radio equipment.

Channel 9 is an interstitial low-powered channel that can't exceed .5 watt ERP. Using a low-powered channel in any rural back country area doesn't make any sense at all. I think that was a poor choice.

For a GMRS and consumer grade radio, I would stay away from the cheap Chinese POS radios and take a look at the Midland GXT 67 Pro or the Rocky Talkie. They may not have any foo-foo bells and whistles that really don't make the radio better but, they are simple to use and of better quality than those radios produced by a non-english speaking government owned corporation in a far-away land. There are videos comparing the two aforementioned radios that are produced by an English speaking non-government owned corporation located on the "Land of the Free".

I like the Bird 43 Inline Watt Meter

There is no such thing as an unladen swallow. They are always loaded and crap all the time all over the place. When they are half empty they load back up because that is what swallows do. This is a normal occurrence every year after March 19, Los Golondrinas day, the return of the swallows day. I know, I grew up in San Juan Capistrano in my younger days. Oh, the Airspeed Velocity of a laden swallow varies between 31-40 MPH

I have the same repeater. Please describe the help you need and I'll try to help you. Depending on what is preventing you from proceeding, if necessary, you can send me your codeplug file and I can set it up and send it back to you for uploading to the repeater. If you need the programming cable, contact Blue Max 49ers. I'm not sure if he has the software. If you have the software, depending on the codeplug firmware and the software versions, you most likely need the Windows 7 or 8 64 bit Operating System and most cases, you have to run the application as the administrator.

Signal Peak provides excellent coverage on the backside of the Four Peaks. I can kick Signal from my driveway here in old people country with my Pickup. I haven't played with it south of Phoenix yet. The owner is the same owner as Towers 575 and Shaw Butte along with Mt Elden, Diamond Point and Greens Peak. The repeater owner knows who the guy is creating the havoc. Not sure what in the future holds for anything to be done. I'm not sure if a complaint has been made or not to the FCC.

Yes, 100.0 Hz (CTCSS not DPL) on the uplink/mobile transmit and 165 DPL for the link mode.

I was just able to key both the local and Link modes a couple minutes ago with my portable radio sitting in my house and I am approx 25 miles from the site. The repeater does not have a tone on the downlink it's CSQ on the mobile receive. I have been hearing the Station Identification recording and yesterday the guy that was creating all the havoc on the Towers 575 was all wound up yesterday morning on Shaw Butte trying tear a new dark hole spot into somebody all morning long. Maybe try giving it a shot with a real radio.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I scan with no tone or code, CSQ on receive but I do have the travel tone set on Tx freqs.

I believe there are two repeaters near Bishop now, a 600 and a 625. If my memory serves me right, the 600 uses the travel tone in/out and the 625 uses 114.8 Hz in with CSQ out.

When I am the only Jeep (usually with a shotgunner) out on an easy Fire Road where it's flat and wide not likely to get into trouble, I do the same, scan all main and interstitial 462 MHz channels with the radio set to Tx on Ch.16 and I have my CB also on Ch. 16. Most of the Jeep Club's I run with use Ch. 16 with a specific DPL code for Trail Comm. However, when I wheel with them I run my radio in the monitor mode for CSQ on the receive side.

Thanks guys.