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By the way, are you implying that you have full faith and confidence in all random claims on every internet forum you participate in? Or do you instead use your reasoning and discussing abilities to separate believable from not so believable?

Nokones posted an amusing reply, to which I thought it would be humorous to respond in kind. I think you are reading things too seriously...

Thank you again, sir, for giving me permission to exercise such freedom. I hadn't thought I would meet such a generous random individual so quickly on a random internet forum. I am forever in your debt.

This claim appears prima facie to be more believable than the claim that roger beeps confuse repeaters.

I admit I'm so ignorant and new at radios, I have no idea what DTMF 1111 or quick burst means. But I suspect that neither of these things would be default settings, or that anyone would set their radio up to do this by simply going to the roger beep setting and selecting "on", is that correct? In other words, telling people to turn off their roger beep wouldn't prevent someone doing the above, right?

Dear sir, please forgive me for not immediately having full faith and confidence in a random claim from a random internet person. Respectfully submitted.

Do you know of a particular incident and what specifically happened?

I have a 30' comet antenna in a large metro area that I put up a few weeks ago and I typically have my radio on scan all day long and other than repeater traffic I pick up FRS traffic all day long. All of them have roger beeps, I hear it all day long all the time and it doesn't bother me at all. If I had any opinion at all, it would be confusion over why people get so hot and bothered by it. I also understand "my repeater my rules". It's all good, but my BS meter went thru the roof when I heard the "roger beep confuses the repeater" claim.

Interesting, thanks. Have you ever heard of such an incident ever actually occurring? It sounds like what you're saying is that a roger beep will impact a repeater about as often as the planets align, right?

I've heard this claim (roger beeps confuse the repeater) multiple times now as a way to justify telling other people to turn off their roger beep. I know nothing about radios, nor do I care about roger beeps, but it seems unlikely to me that manufacturers of repeater radios are so incompetent as to be incapable of making their repeater in such a way as to not get confused by this nearly ubiquitous and simple feature. Am I wrong?

Now that you mention it, I only got radios for backup comms, and the simplicity of GMRS was 100 percent the reason I went this route. But now that I have a 30' comet antenna and I'm picking up tons of traffic, I guess I'm falling down what they call "the rabbit hole".

Yeah that makes sense. I figured since I couldn't find any such feature on my radios, it probably wasn't one that is offered. Figured it was worth asking though as I'm in a large metro area with a 30' comet antenna so I pick up lots of traffic (I'm guessing most gmrs folks don't have my problem lol). Thanks for the feedback!

To be clear, are you saying that no GMRS radio offers this feature? I would think that it's feasible to do, but whether such a feature is actually offered (or whether there is a roundabout way to get there) is what I'm trying to determine.

Yeah I've got several different repeaters in range and none of the drama yet on any of those. I mostly find it humorous, but at the same time it did surprise me and definitely discourages my interest in chatting on that particular one, lol

Not a direct quote. It's my paraphrase for how these guys sound to any other mature, reasonable adult. They were 100 percent serious, lol.