TrikeRadio

Hmm... I had not thought of listening. I might do that tonight to see if anything is on the repeaters or simplex...

It is interesting to me that it took more time to get the DB-20 on CHIRP when the DB-25G has been on it a while. And yes there are a few quirky things to figure out using CHIRP. I have to do a few things different when I use it on various radios but since my background is programming I guess it does not bother me much to have to experiment and get it working after a bit of trial and error. It's what I do.

CW - "Continuous Wave" - Basically... Morse code

Oh... dang typo. yes THREAD is what I meant

I don't want to block any users... but I sure wish the site let you mark a THREAD as something you don't want to see come up in your "Unread topics" anymore regardless of how many new posts get added to it!

I suppose that is so that the FCC does not have the idea that they are adding to their own budget if they hand out fines... kinda of a conflict of interest? But still, if the FCC is sending the letter and announcing the fine, either they are turning that over to some other department to enforce/collect it - and THAT department is failing to follow through, or the FCC is just sending the nasty-gram letter and never actually turning it over to whomever is supposed to enfoice/collect it.

Hmm.. I was thinking maybe my question would open up a discussion beyond the "it makes the sad hams feel justified" automatic response. Why is it that when the FCC actually BOTHERS to send a letter and a fine, it seems the FINE is never actually collected or enforced in any way. If it is NOT in the hands of the FCC to process and enforce that fine, but some other enforcement or Legal department of the government... Does it just never get turned over to collections by the FCC... or Does it get turned over to collections and then collections never pursues it?

I think I have that programmed in my HT but never use it... Haven't checked it in a long time but I thought it was one that (when it does have traffic) was primarily spansh speakers (which I am not) so it was not of much interest to me. (or maybe I am thinking of a different repeater? - not sure)

That's cool. Yeah I can hardly get any of my family interested enough to carry one if we go hiking or anything.

$14,000 and even $25,000 is probably peanuts to the FCC, but you wonder why they don't turn these over to collections or something. Why do they just let them be numbers on a no-no letter and apparently the violator never has any action taken against them to actually enforce and collect the fine. I know the FCC is not an enforcement agency themselves... they have to turn the case over to the legals system or the enforcement agencies... but what? Do the other agencies just ignore the FCC?

An elementary school less than a mile from me uses FRS or GMRS (probaby only FRS but can't tell) for the teachers and administrative staff to communicate. I have heard some students names used and teachers names, but thy don't seem to share any real private info other than that. I have considered contacting the school and just making sue they are aware that they can be heard by others within a few miles of the school. No idea if they realize that they are not "Private" ... but have not contacted them yet because I wonder if they would think I am someone to worry about since I "have been listenting" to them. But yeah I wonder if they even have a clue that their radios can be heard by anyone with a cheap radio in the area.

I went from Vic-20 to C-64 and then to Apple Macintosh... been personally on Mac's ever since but also have a windows machine provided by my employer. But what I learned on the vic-20 and c-64 learning BASIC.. inspired me to love programming as well as design (and now I do both programming and design for website work)

@M5Fan - any luck getting to that repeater? Did any of the ideas and suggestions give you any answers to what you might need to do?

Ahh... bummer.

Just wondering why you are hell bent on finding out the address of the owner of an unlisted repeater that the owner obviously has not listed and probably uses for his own communication needs.

Excellent Typo there. Touch what?

You for sure married the right woman. My wife is kinda intrigued by my funny radio "fad", although she does not really "get it" and probably would never pick a radio up and talk into it... but she laughs at some of the funny conversations on our local repeaters. And she still loves me anyway.

As far as I know... no. Question is, why would you want to remove it? If the repeater owner some day decided to check their requests and answer, then you would finally get what you were asking for. If they don't ever answer, well, nothing has changed one way or another. I understand and agree that it would be nice to clear it so you don't even have to look at it again, and I'm not sure why it isn't an option. But I guess it lets you keep track of repeaters you never have to bother asking permission for eveyr again because it seems no one is answering it anyway.

If you are in an urban area with a lot buildings between you and the repeater (or each trees), or indoors, and the repeater is not up pretty high.. yeah you could have trouble getting that far to it. A better antenna will for sure help, getting it up higher and in a clear area with line of sight will help. as mentioned above you mgiht be able to hide the antenna in an attic space (test it with a temporary setup first) ... and it would be good as mentioned above if you go physically closer to the repeater to a better location and just confirm that your radio is setup correctly to access it.

I feel like I am crazy.. and I only have three radios. Thanks for making me feel better about myself.

Good to hear. Wonder if some of those other USB ports were USB2 instead of USB3? 9or if that even matters) but glad to hear you have it working.

Hmm... I thought I had done it without the login once on my H3... but maybe I don't remember it right.

You can just skip the log in to use the app. not necessary. But I agree... I much prefer CHIRP to odmaster.

The same USBc cable can charge the battery (with the USBc port on the bottom of the radio) AND... you can program the radio with CHIRP or other propitiatory program on the computer by plugging into the SIDE USBc port on the RADIO under the rubber cover .. under the Kenwood Port.

Actually... wrong. The USBc cable that comes with the radio can both charge the battery via the plug on the bottom of the battery... and the radio can be connected for programming with the same cable by plugging into the USBc port on the side of the radio under the Kenwood plug ports.