WRXR374
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A repeater I use a lot now requires this. I have a four digit code, but cannot for the life of me figure out where to program it with CHIRP. The radio is currently set to "80808" but I don't see that anywhere.
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In northeastern Arizona, on Porter Mountain (outside of Show Low and Pinetop-Lakeside) there's a "2". Click on it, and there's only one, Porter Mountain 525.
And I just noticed for Greens Peak farther east, same thing... but there are two repeaters there, 575 and 700. One seems to have vanished from MyGMRS -
I noticed that, above the memories I've programmed in, there are L1, U1, L4, U4, L5, and U5 memories. They don't show up in CHIRP. Anyone know where they come from, how I can remove?
Page 14 of the manual suggests they're upper & lower limits for scanning, but they're scanned like memories. I'd like to just turn them off, but the manual doesn't say how.
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8 hours ago, nokones said:
The AZ GMRS Repeater Club has a Net every Tuesday at 1900 (7PM), except for holidays and the 5th Tuesday of thd month. The Net is called the Tuesday 1900 Net and is open to everyone and is conducted on the 550 channel through the White Tanks Repeater. The White Tanks Repeater will cover most of the Valley of the Sun.
During the Tuesday 1900 Net, Non-Club Members are in courage to participate and the White Tanks Repeater will have the Travel Tone activated for encode (Repeater Access) for all guest users. Leave the receive channel as CSQ since the Repeater does not transmit any Tone out downlink. The topic of discussion varies and will be announced at the beginning of the Net.
For more AZ GMRS Repeater Club information go to www.azgmrs.org
As for SWCRS, it would be best to go on their website at www.swcrs.org or www.tucsongmrs.com
Sorry, I have no information on the White Mountain Community System.
Each line in my post has a link
I know about those networks, and wanted to A) make sure others knew and 
see if anyone knew of any I don't.
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8 hours ago, WRYZ926 said:
One of the best antennas that works on 2m, MURS, 70cm, and GMRS is the Comet 2x4SR. The only reason I don't use it all the time on my vehicle is the fact I park in my garage all the time. My 20" Comet SBB1 just barely clears the 7 foot garage doors and the garage opener. There are a few shorter dual band antennas that will also work for GMRS. The Comet SBB1 is one of them.
Same here. I got a Comet B-10NMO for the height, but it has terrible SWR for GMRS, so I replaced it with a Laird Phantom Elite GMRS antenna since that's where I am most of the time anyway. I'll look at that SBB1. Does it clear your garage door? How would it react to getting whacked on the top 2" or so each time I entered and left the garage?
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I live most of the time in Chandler (East valley) and part time in Show Low. Who else is out there?
AZGMRS is the big state-wide organization. They run their own repeaters for members. It's $36 per year.SWCRS (Southwest Community Radio System) covers AZ and NM. It's free to join. We have some great repeaters and nets for members.
WMVCRS (White Mountain Volunteer Community Radio System) covers northeastern AZ. They ask for a $5 monthly donation to help support their repeaters, which I believe are all open. I gladly contribute.
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Some sources say that certain repeaters near me are narrowband. I realized all were set as wide. I'm fixing now, but what effect would having that wrong have?
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In "Cross Mode" column, select "Tone->DTCS" It'll ask you to set the TX tone (103.5) and ten the RX DTCSS (503).
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Anyone else going? I'll be monitoring White Tanks A
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When something breaks squelch on one of the four bands on my UV25-X2, the arrow for the primary band hops over to that band. I want to stop that from happening.
Page 50 of the manual seems to address that, maybe, but turning TMR-MR to OFF isn't fixing.
What am I missing?
ETA: Someone suggested menu 60, TMR-TX to FIXED, but that was already the case.
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So, somehow while fiddling around, I "fixed" this. It still says MUTE, but that switches back and forth with A/B and I can hear on the B side. I wish I knew what I did!
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12 hours ago, WRXB215 said:
Not sure this is the problem but on some radios a quick press of the power button will mute.
I'll try that, but I'd expect both bands to be muted.
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9 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:
That’s right; that’s what it does. You have two VFOs, A and B. Either can be the “main band.” The other is the “Sub Band.” If you don’t want to be interrupted by the Sub Band, you turn on Sub Band muting using one of the three options. If you choose RX/TX while in one band the other band will always say “Mute.”
I'm not following. No matter whether I'm on A or B, the one on the right (B?) is always muted. Right now, I'm on TX, which I think is the default. It worked fine until a couple of days ago. The right/B? is unusable... I never hear anything from it.
Could the HM key have anything to do with this? The manual says, "Long press it to enter dual watch of VFO channel and current channel". I don't understand what that means, but "dual watch" sounds like it got turned off?
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1 hour ago, SteveShannon said:
I've seen that. I don't see how that's the answer... sub band muting is not (as far as I can tell) something that's enabled per band... if I transmit on either A or B, it'll mute the other channel. There is a MUTE under both A and B. MUTE is only on under B, and all the time, regardless of whether I'm transmitting or not.
Turning it off did make the MUTE go away, but that also means that if I'm transmitting and someone else transmits on the frequency the other band is tuned to, their sound will bleed into mine, and nobody wants that. -
One band of my radio says MUTE (#13 on page 9 of the manual, yes I'm reading!)
But that indicator is the only mention of MUTE, other than sub band muting, which I haven't touched. I don't know how MUTE got turned on or how to turn it off.Squelch is at 2, not 20.
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1 hour ago, Socalgmrs said:
I’d say it won’t help much. Really just gotta get permission from every one you think is even remotely local to you and start testing. One may hit 20miles in some places and only 5in other places and another one may hit fine in the dark area of another one. It’s best to load as many repeaters as you think you need and get active on them. Know the people and areas they work in.
Again... an argument that can just as easily be applied to the entire map as it is today.
The idea isn't exactitude. Just, I'm here at this spot, what repeaters are there that I might be able to hit? Instead of click-click-clicking on all of them to see which overlap where I am.
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2 hours ago, WRXB215 said:
Irregular propagation makes this difficult. RepeaterBook has a "proximity" search but that isn't going to tell you any more than the map on myGMRS.com. There is a group researching making detailed propogation maps available but I don't remember who it was or what their progress is.
By that argument, the whole map is a waste, because those nice neat circles aren't accurate.
That's all I'm suggesting... instead of one nice neat (but useless?) circle, show several. Just as a rough guide to all of the repeaters I may be able to hit from a given spot.
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Rather than looking at repeaters one by one, it would be neat to put a pin down and see every circle of coverage that overlaps that pin.
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My UV25 can show 4 channels or memories at a time. I can tab between them. But when I'm changing one, if something breaks squelch on another, that channel / memory is suddenly "live", so now I'm changing it and not the one I want to. How do I stop that behavior?
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Right now, I'm using a BTECH power supply. But I want to replace it with a UV-50x2 (which I'm certain does need the PS!) and use the 25 somewhere else, hopefully without a $100 power supply.
see if anyone knew of any I don't.
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This is the thing... everyone says some variant of "It's in the settings somewhere". My whole questions has been... WHERE???
After fiddling around, I think I might have figured this out, but as I'm not getting any response to my radio checks, maybe not.
If anyone can post how, exactly, to make this work, that'd be great. If I get a response somewhere else or finally puzzle it out myself, I'll try to remember to come back and leave the answer.