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I could be wrong, but I was thinking the UV-5RM could not RX airband like the AR-5RM.

I know little on the subject of RF propagation, but could there be a perfect placement of a tower structure or something like it on the antenna farm where the antenna has a narrow slice in a direction that is dead? Just spitballing here.

Obi Wan Steve: "These are not the towers your looking for, move along"

Good point. Dear Mom, How are you doing? The siblings and I know you are short on funds, and cannot make this months mortgage payment, so we got together and chipped in. You now have a GMRS license! So exciting! Anyway, Love you! Your kids. (Yes, im going to hell 8-P )

So, with that drama all out of the way... How do we combat this travesty of not allowed linking. A friend wants to know.

Something that is a bit hard to figure out in CHIRP is it is mostly smart. If you think of it as a left to right fill in the blanks task you usually get everything right. 1) Put in the freq 2) Select mode A) TSQL - TX RX same - it will ask for the tone. Dont touch any other tone or DCTS setting or Cross mode setting, its in there. a) Cross Modes are weird. You select tone->tone and it asks for them, if they are the same it goes, its actually TSQL (or DTCS for digital) and sets the mode for it. So, im not sure why in the cross mode setting it has an option of Tone->tone, when it just makes it TSQL in the tone mode (same for DTCS), but yeah. 3) At this point all you need to change on the channel is the offset settings, and if DTCS the polarity if needed. 4) If any of these are a mix like digital and tone, its best to add freq like in 1), then go to Cross mode and select direction. It will ask for the tones. A) On these settings, everything before "- >" is the TX, after is the the RX. it will ask for each and set everything else it needs for those options. Basically, for CHIRP you only have to put in a freq, select something from Tone Mode or Cross Mode, it will ask for the Tones and/or Digital. put those in as it asks, and dont touch anything else in these positions except polarity for digital modes. Its easy to overthink it otherwise. This info piece was brought to you by someone on a Friday and already on the way to a shitfaced drunken weekend. There could be errors, my bad.

If the TX and RX tone are the same, it needs to look like these:

Not sure about the UV-5RM, but the AR-5RM will also RX/TX the 220 and RX the Air Bands.

wish a flat earth was true, then my belly wouldnt feel ignored.

When they kick your door in at 3 AM and shoot your dog you will know.

Userbase may have dropped off, but the use and engagement on the platform has increased dramatically, sometimes beating out MSM number wise. Something it never had before. Sheer numbers of users don't equate success.

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he fired over 80 percent of its workforce, and it flourished. Love the line from the Joker in the first Batman reboot... "This town needs an enema".

The repeater list here at MyGMRS.com https://mygmrs.com/repeater/4116 Has a button for request access.

I hear that they might be shutting down for a while to stop the spread of MonkeyPox.

AMEN!

Try it with the oldest version of CHIRP you can run. I know on my 5Rs at one time CHIRP would allow me to change the "6+Power-On" messages, but with the later versions I cant change it back now.

You hear the tail you hit it. Sometimes if its been silent on the channel for a bit and you kerchunk it, the repeater calls out its Ident after you break - sometimes its "off tone" so you might miss hearing it. Sometimes, like my local repeater, it will ident on tone then repeat it off tone. Dont ask me why, its how its set up. Kill your RX tone and try again and see if its actually TX'ing something.

Sometimes in the background while reading some of these threads, I hear "Yakety Sax" by the artist, Boots Randolpho in my head.

All the Walmarts in this region use the "Blue Dot" (154.570) freq. Sometimes I would sit in the parking lot and prank em by making a transmission "Stockman needed at register 5 for a large item carryout assist" I generally leave my RX tone off as well, but I have a system where if it gets "noisy" I can switch quick to the same channel with the tone set. For instance I have my local repeater on CH 038 RX tone off, but if I get too much other chatter, I go to 538 with the tone set. All the correct RX tone channels are 5XX, XX being the channel I need tones with. CH 046 repeater is 546 for example.

Years back I learned Morse Code while debating on getting a H.A.M ticket. I regret it now, as the noise from my ceiling fan at night keeps saying "Im watching you from the AC vent".

As a side, when i moved out here from podunk Virginia my first job was a ramp rat for Fed Ex at SeaTac. One shitty night we had a late plane and were doing the local sorting onto trucks that would go get resorted for local delivery. Im in the back of a 20 foot truck with an extendable feed belt and I have to scan the barcode as i grab it off the belt and then stack it. I scanned one item and then the system went down. 20 minute reboot (at that time, slow comps) then. So we got a quick break, and i popped out a side door for a quick smoke. We are already on the high security "air" side so this door wasnt really watched, but not to be normally used, anyway... System back up, and I want to do my job right, so I rescan the last package and the system dies again. Another smoke break! I set that package aside so when were back up and chooching along about an hour later i want another smoke, so I scan it and boom. I did that 2 more times till we get pulled aside and told not to scan items from LL Bean (they had a funky barcode and package at the time). Im doing quick glances at the LL Bean item off the side in the truck, hoping they didnt see it. They didnt, but just stacked it with the rest and called it good for the night at that point.

Reminds me of a friend who was showing off his wireless security system. I did a quick google and found the licensed freq for that company. Told him i could get in, and he set the alarm, so i put the freq in my UV-5R, keyed up, and went through his whole house blinding the system. Door sensors, proximity sensors all blinded by the signal.. and or Emissions.

Close enough

Only if it has Spurious Nocturnal Emissions.

I thought the same thing. Lets just swap our skeletons in the closet and call it good.