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Randy is several levels above a Ring Leader.

And it would be best to go very deep in your pocket in order to do it right.

In Montana, don't they use hand-cranked generators for power?

If you are referring to the 550 repeater near Safford, named Thatcher 550, the owner does require permission and the repeater does require an input tone. I believe is a low level site actually in Thatcher. I doubt that there will be coverage along I.S. 10.

Pouring oil on tower bolts and guy wires is not a joke. Regular 30w got the job done to eliminate intermod at a couple of sites. If you need the name of those two sites, I'll be more than happy to provide them.

How long is your cable run end to end? If your cable run is less than 50 feet are you really serious in using heliax? The connectors are not cheap.

Why would you want to call the FCC when the rules are written in Part 95, subparts A & E which we must work within those restrictions rather we like them or not, and regardless who at the FCC you talked to. It doesn't matter what the guy says, we have to follow what is in writing not what the guy says because the official rules are the written rules not the verbal rules.

The radio transmitter/station at a fixed location that transmit on a 467 MHz Main Channel (I. e. 467.550 MHz - 467.725 MHz) to a Repeater becomes a Control Station class of station during that operation. The same control station will revert back to a Base Station Class of Station when that station communicate directly to a mobile station or other base stations at a fixed location on a 462 MHz Main and/or Interstitial Channels.

95.303 Definitions Base station. A station at a fixed location that communicates directly with mobile stations and other base stations.

Yes, by email. The email give you instructions on how to print out your license. Usually, it is just a link to view the license. I applied for another Business Radio Service License on Aug 1, and I received the email for the new license yesterday (8-8-24). The FCC turn around time is pretty quick these as compared to several years ago. Even the on-line application is a tremendous improvement over the paper Form 601 or 605 forms

Most GMRS radios that do not have the ability to lower the RF output power to .5 watt for channels 8-14 will normally leave the channels 8-14 positions blank and allow those positions to be soft programmable with other GMRS channels and tones.

40 amp radio? I'm assuming you mean 40 watt radio. In anycase, 27 amps with a 40 watt radio and 43 amps with a 100 watt radio? Are you running a vintage radio with tubes or do you have an external RF Amplifier running concurrently with the radio. That is a lot of power draw even if it was an old Micor.

I wouldn't use two antennae unless you have a sufficient spacing vertically and/or horizontally. Buy and use a quality duplexer like a Celwave or EMR Corp. If you are trying to keep the coverage foot print small in order to not interfere or be interfered, I would keep the antenna low and use a quality grade unity gain antenna like a Laird Base Station antenna. Also, purchase your quality LMR400 cabling and connectors from a reputable radio product supplier and not from a source that sell cheap and is not their specialty.

I would look into at least a quality 30 amp power supply with adjustable voltage output in case you want to power two radios or other DC devices. Astron is a great product and probably would last forever. I bought a Powerwerx 30 Amp Unit a couple years ago. The continuous power rating is 25 amps. Surprisingly, the unit is very light. I've been very happy with it. I would buy one aUnit. https://powerwerx.com/variable-power-supply-digital-meters-30amp Too bad there are no radio shacks around like yesteryear. I have a 10 Amp Radio Shack power supply that is approx. 50 years old and works very well but it's very heavy for a 10 Amp unit. Be very careful with unknown brand products that are sold by discounted sellers. If it is cheap, there is a very good reason why it is cheap.

Copy that, but there is no restriction for connecting more than one repeater for being controlled remotely.

Hey Einstein: Tell me what this rule mean if you say GMRS repeaters can not be Linked. § 95.1749 GMRS network connection. Operation of a GMRS station with a telephone connection is prohibited, as in § 95.349. GMRS repeater, base and fixed stations, however, may be connected to the public switched network or other networks for the sole purpose of operation by remote control pursuant to § 95.1745.

They will only be available to identify if each user has an individual identifier for repeater access such as MDC or DTMF signalling.

For $25, I suggest that you go to the Ohio Solo Tech site and download the KPG-49D program.

Was this a download or do you have the program on a floppy disk?.

The KPG-49D works fine on my Windows 10 and 11. What error(s) are you getting?

I run with five different Jeep group's and I have programmed their respective trail comm channels twice, one for narrowband and for wideband operations. Depending on who is the group leader for the group is and the bandwidth he/she is willing to use, I'm ready for it. I focus on the Group Leader's comm rather than the other Jeeps in the group. Some of the group leaders that run wideband apparently don't care about the FRS radios that operate only on narrowband and some of the FRS users are having difficulty monitoring the wideband channel. Depending on the quality of the FRS radio they are using that will reflect the level of difficulty in receiving the wideband channel. It appears that some of the super cheap $20 FRS radios are not affected as much or not at all by the emissions mismatch. Some of those group leaders that are reluctant to run narrowband channels for the FRS radio users in the group are mostly amateur radio hobbyists "Sad Hams" of the group who won't accept using narrowband channels and obviously could care less about FRS/GMRS radios. They bring their POS HAM bullwanger radios with their 18 inch skinny antenna and think they are hot stuff and claim to know everything about radios.

The latest scam calls that I have been getting are Dish TV and Funeral Plots. My home telephone landline was "Ported" with Area Code 530 from Northern California 5 years when I moved to Old People Country (Sun City West AZ) so I don't know if these calls are regional to Arizona or Northern California. All the fictitious telephone numbers showing up on my caller ID are area code 530 callers so I have to assume the scam calls may be regional related to Northern California.

It's a problem that we experience all the time in our groups but you're right most users don't know what they're hearing or not hearing. They just don't recognize the problem even if it bit them in the ear. Anyways, our groups are comprised of "Old People" from Sun City West and Sun City Grand and some may have better quality hearing aids then most.

Most of the Jeepers normally buy FRS radios for their Trail Comm and the FRS radio channels are forced to narrowband emissions only. If a user is transmitting on a channel with wideband emissions most of the narrowband radios will receive the transmission either garbled, sound like it is over modulated, or missing syllables. Some of the super cheap FRS radios may receive the wideband emission with no problem at all because the receiver is real loosey goosey with very poor selectivity and sensitivity . This situation occurs more often then you think in large Jeep groups because some users just don't know what to do.

Many decades ago, the FCC restricted the 462.675 freq pair for emergency use. At one point in time, the FCC no longer restricted that frequency for emergencies and various GMRS associations adopted 462.675 MHz and Tone 141.3 Hz as a nationwide travel channel. Overtime and with the influx of new GMRS licensees the National Travel Channel was no longer being recognized as a National Travel Channel except by the longtime licensees. The National Travel Channel should be recognized as such but it appears no one is willing to comply and there is no regulation to restrict that channel for said purpose.