[LOUISIANA NEEDS GMRS/HAM users.. comms sucks here!]

17 minutes ago, Guest wrpg486 said:

they only wanna listen

They work for the NSA? 

[Welcome!]

Welcome to RAA (Radio Addicts Anonymous).

[Line A and C Inquiry and Update from the FCC]

The only one I can download now is the "Reference" copy. Can't get the "Official" copy. Not sure what the difference is but yeah, when I download the reference copy it does not have the Line A/Line C restriction.

[Line A and C Inquiry and Update from the FCC]

Mine has it.

Don't really care though. I never go there.

[Superheterodyne vs wattage]

On 1/2/2025 at 5:51 PM, SteveShannon said:

utility drafters

CW operators as well.

[Need Cooper mountain oregon repeater info]

Log into myGMRS.com proper, not the forum. Lots of repeater info there.

[Program repeater settings on BaoFeng GM21. There aint no Sec. 6.11 in Owners Manual! Don't care what Contents says]

14 hours ago, UncleYoda said:

The tones with decimal something (xxx.x) are CTCSS.  DCS codes are integers (no decimal).

True. I think where some people get confused is that some radios use an index for the tone instead of the actual tone itself.

[Godzilla X Kong and Baofeng.]

I brought this up in a ham meeting to a guy that is very anti-Baofeng. I said "you got to get one now!" He just stared at me in silence like I had two heads. 

[Repeater Planning Series: “The Six Most Common Mistakes" [Contains Stupidity]]

14 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:

Everyone should be forced to watch this:

Forced? 

How the heck did that guy maintain that rhythm? And at such a blistering pace?

[Need help]

He's not MY Rubicon.

[GM-15 Pro transmission locked from customer GMRS channels]

14 hours ago, WSCT342 said:

Seems like a flaw in the design.

That or the manufacturer misunderstood the regulations. It is a frustrating thing and that radio isn't the only one like that.

[Shortest 2-meter 70 cm mobile Antenna?]

@Hoppyjr you may have helped me decide where to spend my Christmas money. I really would like to switch from a mag-mount to NMO. Also would like a NanoVNA. Decisions, decisions. 

[Repeater Number Question]

14 hours ago, AdmiralCochrane said:

I usually make light of the folks in Texas

Hey, you trying to start another fight? 

[Quality of Sound issue....]

2 hours ago, WRQC299 said:

Can you talk between the TiDradio H3 and the BTech Pro?

If they are both in GMRS configuration then yes. The only time it is a problem is when one radio has tones set different from the other.

 

2 hours ago, WRQC299 said:

What about NOAA weather frequencies?

If they can listen on 162.4000 through 162.5500 then yes.

[Antenna Test]

1 hour ago, WRKY933 said:

Will the ABBREE 771 UHF/VHF work on GMRS?

Mine does. I have the U/V and the GMRS and they both work on GMRS.

[Baofeng AR-5RM]

22 hours ago, OscarWillow76 said:

Is the  ABBREE 771-GMRS good enough to start with?

It's working fine for me. AAMOF, the Abbree 771 UV is working fine on my ham radios as well.

[What can be done to lore Knuckleheads off of repeater without shutting them off or involving the FCC?]

I wonder what it took the get the FCC to send that one letter to that one guy? Whoever prompted that action should publish an FCC How To.

[License not populated yet]

9 hours ago, wayoverthere said:

Occasionally there will be a bit of bad data in the "feed" coming from FCC

Yep, the FCCs website and database have been in need of a major upgrade for a long time now.

[Something to think about]

Power and Line Of Sight is not straight forward enough for a blanket statement. Which is why so many answers are prefaced with "it depends."

[Anysecu WP-9900: Update - Not as good as I thought]

@WRTC928 sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. I was seriously looking at that radio about a year ago.

I'm currently using an AnyTone AT-778UV and it is working well for my.

[Magnetic antenna mount, on an aluminum pool cage for ground plane?]

Aluminum works but if the mount is on some king or skinny rail, it won't work as well. You need to have about 6" of surface if I remember correctly.

[More Power?]

2 hours ago, tcp2525 said:

I can get into a repeater full quieting 25 miles away with just 100 milliwatts. Does that count?

NO! Because I have trees, so it's not fair!

[How to use GMRS license with family?]

@WSGC746 It's an advertising blunder. Not uncommon for the advertising people to have no clue what they are talking about.

[TD-H3 GRMS vs Ham]

3 hours ago, WSAQ296 said:

not to accidentally have them dial up some unknown freq

Who you calling a freak?

[More Power?]

Although the situation you describe certainly does happen, verify your testing method. Often times voice is getting through the repeater but the person's test method is faulty and they think they aren't getting through. The most common problem in this is the transmit radio and the receive radio being too close together creating desence on the receive radio essentially causing it to "go deaf" to the repeater.