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Supposedly this was a pre-warning warning, and, apparently, the owner collapsed like a house of cards. Under what seems to be, basically, zero pressure. So who knows what the story actually is there. The more stuff comes out about that, the more questions I have.

Short answer: yes, you're wrong. Longer, more nuanced answer: It depends on where you are and how comfortable you are being solely reliant on cell service if something goes wrong. I spent most of last week in areas with at best spotty (but usually no) cell coverage running GMRS radios for car-to-car and hiker-to-hiker comms. Worked great. FRS radios would work for most of that, but there are places without cell coverage where I can talk through some of our mountain-top repeaters that, were I or someone I was with to get hurt, we could call for help even without cell service. That's an edge case of an edge case, mind, but it's nice to have as a backup.

and a transmit offset (or using a Repeater channel on a GMRS radio, which will have the offset built in).

That still doesn't totally add up. If it was just a friendly head's up, what do they need a list of callsigns for? Or the hard "TODAY" deadline? That's less friendly and more potentially scare tactics. It's not like e-mail headers can't be spoofed. I'm still leaning towards 'ol boy wanted a convenient excuse to get the club off of his gear' but who knows. I mean, he knows, but he's not talking much, apparently.

That still doesn't add up. If it was just a friendly head's up, what do they need a list of callsigns for?

The 779UV is an amateur radio. You need to put it in the correct mode to allow it to work on GMRS. The GMRS frequencies are 'out of band' for an amateur radio. While holding down the V/M button, turn on the power. Use the Up and Down arrow keys to change to the GMRS setting on the display.

Yes. But you're responsible if they muck about too much and piss someone off.

I'm less "base station GMRS" and more "in the backpack and car GMRS" haha I don't really have any kind of antenna except for a nagoya mag mount on the top of a cabinet in my office. That said, I've had an HT with me all morning, and I'm up on the hill overlooking the valley so usually if it's out there and has decent punch, I can hear it, and so far I've got nothin.

Right, but breaking the links and running them as distinct repeaters seems like it's an option, ass-u-me-ing it's legit. ...................what?

Your Encode vs Decode is correct. You can leave Decode blank while you troubleshoot. Do you have the offset programmed in for the repeater? IE: Is it transmitting on the +5 MHz frequency?

I can pretty much guarantee that if you went to the store, found the owner / manager who set all this up, and said "hey could you not be on a repeater frequency" they'd say "...what's a repeater frequency?" They buy a cheap radio, set it on a random number that's quiet when they set it up, and never touch it again. Which, in fairness, is pretty much how GMRS / FRS is set up to work lol

https://youtu.be/HYiDSZxZa68? My money's on either they got trolled, or whoever runs the network needed an excuse to shut it down. That story is fishy as hell.

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What was "it"? I didn't see this pop up anywhere else but here so I must've missed it

"Is the FCC that shut down a repeater for being linked in the room with us right now?"

2 KG-905Gs, 4 TD-H3s, antennas, charge cables (they can all take USB-C), and a couple hand mics.

We just got back from a week in Yellowstone with some family from France. My uncle was considering bringing his pair of PMR446 radios down. I explained why that was sort-of a bad idea (would it have bothered anyone with half watt radios? Probably not) ...but that I had us covered

Nice. I have the mountains above Magna between me and Promontory. But the Capital and Ogden repeaters I can get to easily with a handheld, along with all the other ones here locally in the valley.

Yeah I edited my post when I realized there was a Brighton location right by snowbird haha

That's likely the Intermountain Intertie repeater network. https://www.k0tfu.org/intertie/ Scroll down for the map. I have several of those repeaters in my backpacking radio for just-in-casies.

Did you start participating in their conversation? I'd love to hear that freak out

I had a weird issue on mine last week listening in on a few VHF repeaters. We were at Yellowstone and I had some of the park ranger repeater frequencies programmed to listen in on (166.375, 165.5875, 166.875, 172.500). About half the time, after a transmission the squelch on the radio would hang open (hooray deafening static!) until I cycled the MONI button on the radio, which would shut it up. The other half of the time it would work normally with a brief burst of static after a transmission as you'd expect on a repeater output. I listen in on VHF repeaters near home pretty regularly and have never had this issue, so it doesn't SEEM like it would be the radio, but it happened on multiple repeaters in different parts of the park. I turned the squelch up, I turned it down, I turned it medium, but nothing seemed to correct it. My working theory is they're using commercial gear which is transmitting a data burst after the operator keys off and that was screwing with this 100% analog radio? But that it wouldn't stop on its own (like, if I turned the volume down it would stay for minutes if it hung and no one else spoke) was very odd. Anyone seen (...heard...) this before and / or have a fix?

Keep in mind that it's GMRS, which a lot of people don't treat as an activity in and of itself, and often aren't just sitting on the radio all day waiting to talk to someone. In the Salt Lake valley, we have a handful of repeaters that are pretty much constantly monitored and often busy. And several that you won't get an answer on. This might be the latter.

Same question

I've always wondered what the "Call" button was actually for, other than to make the radio make more annoying noise than usual. Is it some vestigial option that used to have a purpose, but like an appendix, just hangs around for no real reason? Or is there an actual purpose that every H/T seems to have one? No amount of searching around has brought me closer to a satisfying answer. So I must ask: