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Hey just like GMRS!

That hope and $5 can get you a cup of coffee...

Channel != frequency. First day on the internet?

Most preferred? Sure. Single? Absolutely not. There's a bunch of GMRS repeaters just in my area that aren't on here but are published elsewhere.

As usual, it's got little to do with the radio usage, and a lot more to do with what he was actually doing (ie: harassing kids). If it wasn't kids, would they have done anything? Because it doesn't sound like it's stopped his general radio dickery. He just realized that screwing with people's kids MIGHT be a step too far.

Bingo.

It's true around the big population centers at least, per my family in the area. 15-22 are basically useless because every repeater channel is repeating the same message from some guy on the other side of the state talking about his genital warts or whatever it is rag chewers like to go on about.

Apparently someone's had enough

It might be that the KG1000 is locked down too. The stock image on the KG905Gs doesn't even actually use the first 30 memory slots. And if you really wanted, just for fun:

1. I don't understand why mag mounts are even being discussed. Pretty sure that was brought up as a joke lol Yeah, they're not a good fit for aircraft for obvious reasons. There's not usually a lot of steel in an airplane, outside of the engine mount. 2. There are air-to-air dedicated frequencies on the air-band. However: Not all air band radios, especially in older planes, allow dual watch for monitoring the Unicom or Controller frquency for your airspace, and also allow you to talk to your buddy in the plane next to you. And air band radios are expansive as hell. If you need an inexpensive solution to be able to talk to your buddy, adding a GMRS or FRS radio seems like a good option vs spending $$$ for another air-band radio. Hell, a lot of older and light sport aircraft aren't even required to have a radio installed, depending on the air space they fly in. If you fall into that category, are you going to spend $$$ for a 'real' air band radio for your plane that doesn't even have an electrical system? Or throw your GMRS handheld and a headset in your pack?

That seems to be A Thing with these, unfortunately. When they're good, they're great, and I guess I just got lucky with the 4 I bought. But they seem to be having some pretty serious QC issues.

Likely this. Aviation stuff is wildly expensive. I can definitely see them having 1 air-band radio, using that for unicom or tower frequencies, and then using GMRS or FRS for air-to-air comms. Slightly different use case, but Civil Air Patrol planes do something similar. Air-band for their aviation work, then air to air and air to ground (for SAR / other mission work) is VHF FM on their designated frequencies. (And can be configured as airborne repeaters, which is pretty rad).

I mean, fair, but you're here asking questions about how to do a thing, and folks are trying to help, but the "why" matters in coming up with a useful "how." That said: Yeah I'm starting to see why

Right. But for the other 99.9999999% of the time....... I understand planning for that edge of an edge of an edge case. But I don't get letting it limit how we act in all the rest of situations which are exponentially more likely to actually occur. Heck, in a "grid down, apocalyptic scenario," no one's checking MyGMRS.com to see what their local comms strategy needs to be. Which brings us back to the beginning of what are you actually trying to accomplish. Which still isn't clear.

It's fair that there's a lot of gray area in the FCC's rules (just look at the arguments on this forum...), but the Line A thing is pretty straight forward, in that it was a thing and now it's not.

Neighborhood watch discord group. WhatsApp group. Group text message. Teams chat. E-mail list. There's so many ways to skin this cat. What's this even mean? Why wouldn't fliers or signs work when the rest of society is working?

Yup, this.

I guess you're doing further research with sources you know to not be factual then. You're right, that makes way more sense...

People treating AI slop and hallucinations as a source for factual information is....concerning.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

And you weren't at the Vegas TT National event earlier this year? I'm very disappointed. That's awesome. I run U2 in my car for TT, XP for AutoX. Maybe we'll meet up at LVMS at some point, or one of the Cali tracks

Fixed

What OS are you using? Because, yeah, what @SteveShannon said. Pretty much any OS has an on-board program to deal with zip files natively.

What would you need a Jeep for? In most communities it is illegal to drive off the pavement. See how that reads?