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I think GMRS is rad, I got my license but just don't have a lot of people in east San Diego using repeaters. A new one went up recently and I actually talked to a guy on it which was kinda cool, other than that I have never had a radio check come back to me on the other one. I got my HAM license and it is night and day, tons of good strong repeaters on peaks, lots of people talking and through a linked system I can hit my house 100+ miles away from down in the desert.

That is indeed the repeater. Lol, thanks for the reply.

Copy that, thanks for the quick reply. UV-5R. Now I’m wondering if I should get a pair of the UV-5G’s.

Good morning all, I recently got approved to use a repeater very close to my house that is listed here on the map. It has a frequency but no input or output tones listed. Do I just plug in the frequency with a +005.000 offset? Thanks for the help.

We will give that a try. Thanks for the replies.

Thanks for the reply. Yes we have used the radios on all the GMRS channels for a while now with no issues.

Good evening all, my name is Brian I am new here. I picked up some Baofeng UV-5r's for hunting and fishing with my son and quickly learned about the GMRS world and recently got my license. My dad actually had his ham license for decades starting in the 80's when he was using a radio with a certain band to fly RC planes. I feel like I have learned a ton working with the Baofeng's including programming a local repeater. I put in the frequency, DPL tones, 005.000 offset and a + direction. I put the DPL tones (they are the same) into T-DCS and R-DCS. When I que the mic I get the static and the courtesy tone indicating I am hitting the repeater. I have heard some traffic on this repeater (not a ton) but I haven't had a successful radio check yet. My buddy programmed his Baofeng into the repeater, got the courtesy tone but when we went about 100 yards apart all we got was the static and courtesy tone. We tried radio checking each other and never could transmit/get out. Is being to close together a factor? Is there anything else I am missing in the radio programming? Should I only put in the transmit DPL tone and get rid of the receive? Am I correct that all GMRS repeaters have a +005.000 offset? I am using a UV-5r with a 15 inch Nagoya 771 as well as the Nagoya mobile UT-72g, I drove to within a half mile of the repeater. Any and all help is appreciated.