WRXB215

The Garmin Rhino series GMRS radios have had it for many years, as well as very well done mapping and location exchange. It works well.  I use that, but I’ve not used the GMRS pro.

You need to understand how tones work. When a radio or in this case the repeater has an input tone, it will squelch out any signal that does not have that tone. So, the repeater will ignore you unless your signal has that tone. When the repeater sends out a signal with a tone, you can still hear it when you use no tone at all. But you also hear all other signals. To squelch out all the other signals and just hear the repeater, use the repeaters output tone.

You need to understand how tones work. When a radio or in this case the repeater has an input tone, it will squelch out any signal that does not have that tone. So, the repeater will ignore you unless your signal has that tone. When the repeater sends out a signal with a tone, you can still hear it when you use no tone at all. But you also hear all other signals. To squelch out all the other signals and just hear the repeater, use the repeaters output tone.

You need to understand how tones work. When a radio or in this case the repeater has an input tone, it will squelch out any signal that does not have that tone. So, the repeater will ignore you unless your signal has that tone. When the repeater sends out a signal with a tone, you can still hear it when you use no tone at all. But you also hear all other signals. To squelch out all the other signals and just hear the repeater, use the repeaters output tone.

You need to understand how tones work. When a radio or in this case the repeater has an input tone, it will squelch out any signal that does not have that tone. So, the repeater will ignore you unless your signal has that tone. When the repeater sends out a signal with a tone, you can still hear it when you use no tone at all. But you also hear all other signals. To squelch out all the other signals and just hear the repeater, use the repeaters output tone.

I should add, I generally use the output tones in my area.

Otherwise, I would be hearing all the kids, lawnscaping companies

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We have to keep in mind that the primary purpose of GMRS is for families and other small groups. Using repeaters is just a bonus. For everything else, HAM is the way to go.

Joining a club will not make the tones show up on myGMRS.com. You need to get the tones from the club or repeater owner.

Oh.. yea I agree. Listen to aprs frequency in a dense area.

What I was referring to was the amount of data that can be sent. Especially, something like FT. Damn symbols rate caps, lol

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Until you have a dozen or so stations doing it on your channel. Then even a short data burst at frequent intervals is going to be irritating.

Update: My final solution was to throw a 30ah eco-worthy lifepo4 battery under the seat and now I have excellent quieting on transmit. Complete power isolation from the vehicle is the ticket.

After extensive A/B testing with the various common easy solutions for filtering the DC power nothing ever stopped it and I had a lot of false positive placebo effects going on with various attempts.

One thing that did seem to knock down the harshness of the buzz was putting x2 2200 micro farad capacitors in parallel after an mfj1142 filter (only used the filter to provide some resistance for testing, it didn't work by itself) The capacitors smoothed out the tone some. I could potentially continue to experiment with capacitors and target specific frequencies if I were to figure out the specific frequencies of the noise using an oscilloscope. But I'm so happy with the lifepo4 performance I may not pursue it further unless I get bored.

Stuff I thought about trying but didn't:

- Making my own power leads with heavier gauge wire as the theory is that voltage drop can increase conducted noise. Just didn't feel like re-running wire.

- Further troubleshooting and cleanup of the various DC grounding points on the engine and frame (I did try HF style RF bonding of the hood and exhaust, which doesn't seem to matter for conducted DC noise for UHF, wasted effort)

- The extreme of replacing injectors and injector harness. Nah, they work.

Definition of a fixed station. 
Fixed station. A station at a fixed location that directly communicates with other fixed stations only
A base station is not a fixed station, neither is your HT. Fixed stations only communicate with other fixed stations. Like a point to point communication. Maybe a com from a gate or something like that. 

New guy saying hi. My co-worker got me back into it and it's been a blast the last week programing our radios and catching up on new tech. 

@Sshannon & @Lscott thanks for the info.

Sounds like what I read in the manuals of CCRs. 🤣

@WSAQ843 Welcome to myGMRS.com. As you can see, discussions can get heated at time but you'll find that it is mostly peaceful and a great community.
I'm also in Texas and hope to hear you on the air either on GMRS or ham.

I think you articulated the problem.
By having several repeaters in an area linked each one requires it's own pair of frequencies. Sticking to the usual standard of a 5MHz offset that leaves just 8 pairs. So, by linking several repeaters together when any one of them goes active all are now on the air. This effectively ties up several valuable repeater pair frequencies whereas one might have been sufficient.
The argument for this practice is now a much wider area is covered. However one forgets that another user may wish to setup their own repeater, and has NO desire to share it with anyone outside their family or group. The multiple linked repeaters now consumes the limited repeater frequency pairs, and possibility leaving none available for somebody to use on a limited basis. 
For example here in the metro Detroit area we have, I think, three linked repeaters, and one wide area standalone repeater. Since we are past the FCC's "Line A" two of the official repeater frequency pairs are not available. With four of the remaining pairs consumed by the linked system that leaves just 2 frequency pairs open for somebody else to use.

We just used ours. My wife had one in the house and I took one with me when I went to the barn to get the snow plow hooked up to our SxS. She kept tabs on me while I was plowing our driveway, a neighbors driveway and part of the road leading to our drive. We also listened to the county sheriff's talking about road closures and all the cars stuck in the area. 

Hello to all - First post/reply on myGMRS. Thank you, thanks, please be seated. 😁
I personally like using a well constructed link system. Our local ham radio club has done an excellent job of connecting small areas around us to make a small club much bigger, with bigger reach that wouldn't normally be there for folks out of the vast regions of Texas. The same goes with GMRS and one reason I got my license recently after finding there was a local repeater close by that had traffic on it, I was stunned. Being in a small town I was expecting nothing at all in the way of making contacts. Quite the opposite, it's been a great deal of fun - especially in my current health condition/situation - and i've already had qso's with several great people via my HT. 
843 Chris Texas
 

Well, if it's any consolation, you've convinced me it's a great radio. If I can ever afford one, I'll get it. I just won't tell anyone I'm also going to program it for... 🤣

Here is what I could find on the dealer mode.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/632574/Wouxun-Kg-Uvd1p.html?page=9

Wouxun does make some good hand held radios. The KG-935G has been a solid radio for me and others. I know a few guys that really like the KG-UV9D Mate and KG-UV8H. I've been considering the new KG-Q10H quad band radio myself.

I am going to make a video about the 5 things that I've found out about it that I don't like. They're not "Deal Breakers" by any means but still, if a cheap UV-5R has these features then this radio should have them as well but like I said, I still really like this radio. That's why I bought a 2nd one. 😉

Well, if it's any consolation, you've convinced me it's a great radio. If I can ever afford one, I'll get it. I just won't tell anyone I'm also going to program it for... 🤣