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If you have the tone, you shouldn't need to figure out anything. It either uses DPL or PL (or DCS or CTCSS). How are you checking, and how do you know it's not working? What is / isn't it doing? Are you sure you have line of light to the repeater? Are you close enough?

"I have negative traffic: This net is bad and you should feel bad."

Nope. If you spoke and got a reply back, the thing appears to be setup correctly. You can turn off your Receive tone and have the radio open to any traffic on that channel (not just repeater traffic). But if it's a busy area, that can be a mess trying to separate every FRS radio on that channel from your repeater. Menu? Or Monitor? I'm not really sure what that's referring to. You don't need to "connect" to the repeater to hear it. It transmits just like your radio, on a frequency, usually with a tone that you can choose to listen for or not (as per the above). At least on GMRS repeaters, there's nothing else needed to hear the thing.

NGL, I tried when I started getting into this. I just couldn't. "This? This is what y'all are doing with your weeknights?" I'm glad people enjoy it. It's not for me.

I believe @dosw was referring to listening to the Innermountain Intertie nets on 2M (which is allowed, even with no license), and potentially working with someone who has a 2m repeater set up already in Utah county on potentially adding a GMRS repeater.

I read this as a joke, but maybe it isn't.

Trying to talk to Rob, clearly

Limiting what you can hear is the point. There's a decent bit of traffic on simplex 15-22 where I am and if you're listening to a repeater, you get a lot of 'noise' (especially since half the time they're just barely in range enough to break squelch but not actually hear much). Which is a long way of saying "it depends on your particular situation"

Go 1 county north where they won't ever shut up on the repeaters Ok not quite, there's often down time, but man when they get a rag chew going, it GOES. But also, "GMRS community" is a weird concept. MOST people (normal people, not weirdos on here) use GMRS as a communications method while doing a hobby, not a hobby in and of itself. So while there IS a community (check out the Utah GMRS facebook group if you're on there), it's never going to have the critical mass of "we're all radio geeks doing radio geek stuff and getting together to talk about radios as much as possible" that you will with hams. It's kinda like wondering why there isn't more of an FRS community out there. Maybe there is, but that's not what people have FRS radios for, by and large.

So why not...put their FRS radios to channel 19 as well?

lol wtf? They're an avionics company...

Whiskey Rum Yuengling Limoncello....

Also that, yes.

Right, but almost no one uses the votes, and it almost always turns into an actual discussion, where having them ordered by 'validity' is not really helpful.

It's pretty crap. And you have to do the dance every single time you look at the thread. Really stupid way to order a discussion forum.

Yeah. That's why we just paid the higher taxes on tea and are still part of the United Kingdom Obey rules that make sense. Plenty of rules don't.

How old are some of those radios? FRS and GMRS weren't 'unified' until 2017. If they're older radios, they may have different configurations.

Because the FCC decrees it as such. Wait...I thought "all the radio manufacturers" programmed them the same, per A above, and just in a weird order to your tastes? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've never seen a handheld GMRS or FRS radio where channel 1 wasn't 462.5625 across the board, channel 2 wasn't 462.5875 across the board, etc... It can get weird with some of the mobile radios that choose to omit 8-14 (where they can't transmit) and so channel 15 becomes 8, but the frequencies should all line up. Plus mobile radios, if you're into that sort of thing. And the handhelds can often be had in higher quality and with more bells and whistles than most FRS radios. But from some points of view that's a detriment. As was stated above. FM = wide, NFM = narrow.

In an emergency? Next time will be the first.

1. If possible, request it through myGMRS. 2. If you have the channel and tone(s), set up your radio, key up, identify yourself, and...ask.

If we're talking non-type-accepted mobile radios, there's LOTS that'll do MURS. My DB20-G for example. Pretty much any unlocked VHF radio is workable for those.

Technically? If you're on a GMRS radio, you're supposed to use your callsign. Practically? On simplex? Just talking amongst 'your group' (as you would be here) and not talking to random people out on the airwaves? As far as anyone else knows, you're on an FRS radio too. Out hiking, at the race track, on a road trip and only talking within our group, we just use names. Talking through a repeater, I always use my CS. But 99% of my use is simplex talking to friends & family.

100% this. Unless you're having trouble getting through (and even then, the few extra watts maybe will / maybe won't make the difference), there's no need to have it on maximum chooch.

Tone really doesn't come across very well in text, unless you make it, just, STUPID obvious. Especially when, like @SteveShannon said, it's right on the line of what someone might say to make fun of a ham, but also is exactly what some hams might say legitimately

Yeah that sounds like some government language