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After rolling by the accident, there was a Call Box a few miles down the road but, it was vandalized. The call box had a yagi on top of the pole pointing down to the valley floor.

You have to use the Linked Tone setting to link up otherwise you're just using the repeater in the local mode. Only the Towers 600 is linked. The Towers 575 is a stand alone repeater.

Towers 600, Shaw Butte, and Pinal are linked SWCRS repeaters

While I was traveling back from a car club driving tour outing up in the San Jacinto Mountains to the Resort where my car club is holding a week long National Convention, I came upon a multi-car traffic collision with the road almost completely blocked in a blinding curve, on State Route 74, between Palm Desert and Idyllwild, and I noticed several people trying to use their cellular telephone probably trying to report the collision. I assumed they were not having any success because we were in a cellular dead zone which was several miles long. I did not stop to check on injuries because there was no safe place to pullover since it was a narrow mountain road with essentially no shoulders. I continued on hoping to see some bars on my cell phone. Fortunately, I had both my portable and mobile GMRS units with me and I attempted to make contact with another station that could relay the incident to the California Highway Patrol. I knew there were two repeaters in the area so I tried Coachella Valley Repeater and called out in the blind asking if any station would relay the incident to the CHP. A station in the Salton City Area answered up and relayed the incident and came back to tell me he was successful in making contact with the CHP. I signed off and continued my drive back to La Quinta It pays to have a GMRS Radio as an additional means of communications to report emergencies to public safety agencies. Also, it pays to be prepared and know the GMRS system in the area you are traveling in and have your radio units programmed accordingly just in case. This was the “just in case”.

Your radio is a 250 channel radio. Is there a reason why you can't program channels 23-30 with the eight GMRS channels with a CTCSS Tone/DCS Code or channels 23-29 with FRS channels 1-7 with tones/codes, and if you have to switch channels to CTCSS/DCS protected channel, you tell them to go up the number of channels you want to switch to. If you're concerned that a young or older person may have some challenges, you give them some training so they can learn and do it right. Obviously, they've had some training to adjust the volume, PT-T (push to talk and release to listen) and they must be doing it right by now, then it's time to train them to switch channels on their own. They can't learn any younger.

Hopefully, your radios are programmed with 467.575 MHz as your transmit frequency and 462.575 MHz as your receive frequency with at least 91.5 Hz encoding to the Repeater. As the other people, not "Some People", have stated, more than likely your transmitting radio is desensing the receiver on the receiving radio because of being very close together. The selectivity/sensitivity, of the cheaper radios, is not the greatest and will require a lot of separation (probably "some farz") between the two radio units

I wouldn't say he is a clown but, he is funny and I enjoy his humor. "Some People" may think otherwise especially, the "Sad Hams" but, that is the nature and mind sets of some of the HAMs that have to bitch and moan about non-HAMs. I think he has to be a "Kool Guy" because he is using radios to my liking in his off-road toys. I just hope that he doesn't change the Tones on his "Ranchino" repeater again until after this weekend while the National Porsche Club is on their driving tours throughout the Area. I don't have my programming stuff with me for my XTL and XTS 5000 radios. What I like to know is, all the radios he has in the background in his videos, are they props or real radios given by the various providers? If they are real radios, how did he get the displays and lights to flash on and off that you see throughout the videos?

I have the Cobra 29 LTD Classic Nightwatch AM/FM and I haven't heard anyone on FM yet. It's almost non-existent on AM these days.

You might want to look at the Stico Antenna products.

My GMRS radio club operates their repeaters on narrowband and my radio units are programmed accordingly. Also, I am able to monitor two nearby high elevation repeaters that operate on wideband channels. I'm monitoring the narrowband channel with a Motorola XTL5000 radio and the two wideband channels with a CCR/CCSD radio with two receivers as base station units. Personally, I think the narrowband channel sounds a lot clearer than the wideband channels. I'm just not seeing what is all the fuss about the differences between the two subjects. The narrowband channels are a lot more efficient and should be used on GMRS. If people are experiencing lower audio levels with their CCR/CCSDs than "Turn Up the Volume". Also, I have several vintage(30+ years) Motorola radios that can operate on either narrowband or wideband channels and I just don't see the differences

It would have been nice if Wouxun made the "Monitor" feature to disable the CTCSS decode instead of blowing squelch. Also, adding a "Talk Around" feature would be a great feature for the radio.

Also, some States have written in their statute that public safety personnel are exempt in the performance of their duties.

Seems that I lost what I was trying to say. The earclip earpieces were uncomfortable for me wearing them for 10-12 hours. The curly clear tube earpieces with a molded ear insert was a lot more comfortable.

The Earclip was uncomfortable for me after wearing it for 10-12 hours. It always felt that the edge of my Ear was being pinched. The curly clear tube and molded earmold was a lot more comfortable for me for 10-12 hours.

That's the heavy duty wire kit.

I forgot to include my EVX-R70-G40 Repeater Station. It's really a Motorola XPR8400.

An earpiece wire kit with a molded ear insert would also help to impress the chicks.

A good rule of thumb, if you're willing to accept the thumb rule, think of it this way. The repeater station being high and the mobile units being low. You always go high and in for frequency and in for the tone to the repeater and to the mobile units go with down and low in frequency and out for the tone.

1-Visar, 1-HT1000, 2-MT2000 (A7s), 2-MT2000 (A4s), 1-MTS2000 (A4), 3-Astro Sabers (1 each Type, 1, 2, and 3), 3-XTS1500 (Type 1s), 1-XTS2500 (Type 1), 3-XTS3000 (Type 2s), 6-XTS5000 (Type 2s), 2-XTL5000 (Remotes), 1-XTL5000 (Dash Mount), 1-Midland MXT500 (New Firmware 128 Channel version), 1-Wouxun KG1000G +, and I just acquired a Kenwood TK880K last weekend. All UHFs with some radios with the "Q", "R", and "S" Band Ranges If you want to count CBs, I have 1-Radio Shack Realistic TRC-24 24 Channel Radio, Yes 24 selectable and usable channels, 1-Cobra 19DX III, 1-Cobra 19DX IV, and 1-Cobra 29 LTD Classic AM/FM Nightwatch.

Well let's see, I only own one CCSD and that's it, no more, and no way in hell will I buy another CCR. With that being said, I do own 28 (23-Portable Handhelds and 5 Mobiles) non-CCSDs.

It is given that the FCC has mandated that the FRS and GMRS radio services will share the spectrum between 462.550 MHz and 462.725 MHz, and 467.550 MHz and 467.725 MHz with voice modulation in the analog emissions mode. With the exception of a few large Metropolitan Regions, the smaller regional areas in the future may warrant additional GMRS channels due to the growth of the hobby. In my opinion, and for keeping the cost of this GMRS hobby affordable for people with less disposable income, most technological advancements such as, digital emissions for voice, etc., will drive up the cost and complexity of the hobby. Most people would like to keep the cost down and simple so they can have adequate voice radio communications. Allowing technical improvements like digital voice will not provide any additional benefit that analog emissions does today. People are communicating very effectively in the analog mode on the GMRS channels. If hobbyists/radio users want to indulge in the technical aspects of two-way radio, than the Amateur Radio Service is the play to go. The Amateur Radio Service is the Band where people can build, fabricate, experiment, engineer, tear apart, re-engineer, put back together to see if it will work, have digital voice emissions, and share their experiences with other people who likes to fiddle with the inner-workings of radio communication devices and have plenty of spectrum on several frequency bands to do the fiddling around. The GMRS Radio Services is not the place to do HAM stuff and things. That is why there is Amateur Radio Services. Sometimes, I question the need of 14 FRS radio channels. Is there really 14 simultaneous FRS conversations occurring in the same proximity with such low-powered devices with a gazillion privacy tones available and of course the conversations are not private? I doubt it. I believe FRS can effectively be used with a lot less radio channels, like MURS. Also, I believe allowing the reduced FRS channels operate at the two-watt output power level the 462 MHz channels could live adequately with the GMRS channels. Giving the FRS users the use of the existing channels 1-7 at two-watts and taking away channels 8-14 would not be a dis-service to the FRS users. I would like to see the FCC mandate that the main GMRS channels be reallocated to 2.5 KHz/12.5 KHz channels and the interstitial channels be reallocated for GMRS 50 watt use and several channel pairs designated for use only at lower HAAT elevations. By reallocation the channels to narrowband would provide a lot more channel capacity with less channel and user interferences and provide for future growth. The reforming of the Part 90 allocated radio channels did not cause any problems and I feel that the GMRS channels can be just as successful with narrowband. Eventually, GMRS may be forced into narrowband in the future, so let's get'r dun!

Does the transceiver mounting bracket take the "2135" key?

Nor regulate it.

Or High up (link) and Low down (link).

Where do you get this form?