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I used to have fun eavesdropping on the neighbors cordless phones. Some interesting conversations

Indeed. Our group is 100% open to GMRS users...and nearly half of our group has GMRS licenses. We also maintain a GMRS repeater (SARC 650). It's used every day.

Keep in mind the H8 is 10 watts ONLY on VHF. For UHF, it's 5 watts. I've confirmed this with three different radios.

I have two of the H8s. No problems at all. Side/top buttons do what I program them to do Weather, light and FM radio. I do not update the firmware if it's working as it should. If there's no benefit to updating, I don't do it. Just to get the latest and greatest is not enough. Overall the H8 is a very good radio and has become my daily driver. The more expensive Icom ID51A stays at home.

Under "Duplex", you have it set for "split"...when it should be "+". That way your offset is correct.

Same here when I set ours up.

All of our repeaters are Kenwood units. TKR750 and TKR850. No problems at all.

Welcome from another Alabamian (Covington County, AL)!

Welcome!

I'm sorry, I don't. I've tried them in the past on different radios (ham) and most were so-so in quality of transmit audio. Receive audio, on the other hand, was mostly fine. The one my friend had was from Tidradio. The Icom ID51A I bought from a ham friend has one...but I don't use it. The commercial stuff (Kenwood, etc.) is much better.

A friend had one on his H8. I was talking to him and he sounded a bit "muffled" so I had him unplug it and use the built-in mic. It sounded so much better..much clearer and easier to understand. He tossed in the round file.

I was sitting at the computer last night when I thought I heard someone calling football plays on the scanner. I turned it up and listened again and sure enough, I heard someone calling plays. This was on GMRS/FRS channel 5. I live not far from the town stadium and school has started back recently. Apparently, the high school football team was practicing and one of the coaches was calling plays down to the sidelines from the pressbox. I don't remember the exact names of the plays...but they're interesting. Other than that, I hear a couple of kids every now and then playing with their radios....holding down the call button, of course.

As others have already said, absolutely she can. There's a guy that lives in my town (in AL) that uses his son's GMRS license. The son is in the midwest. He doesn't come up on the repeater much...but he jumps in from time to time.

Guilty here too.

Amateur operator with a GMRS license and also a police dispatcher. I have no problem keeping the lingo separate. Ten codes are common for my agency but I do not use them anywhere else. I do hear them on ham and GMRS from a few people around here though...mostly new licensees. Most of the GMRS folk here also have ham licenses.