TrikeRadio

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.

Yeah, I had a GMRS callsign 12 years back which i let expire... and in the past year decided to give it another try. I looked into trying to resurrect my old callsign (although I was not really attached to it) but found it easier to just register for a new one on my existing FRN. not sure how you go about getting your $35 refunded though... hope you can.

Yep. Took me doing it in reverse order and getting it wrong a few times before I figured that out. But it can be useful like you said, when you know how it works.

One bit of weirdness that I have noticed about the TD-H3 is that if you enter a CTCSS or DCS for the RX it automatically puts that same value in the corresponding TX too. and if you clear the RX tone/code it will clear out the TX tone/code. Does the repeater you are trying to use have a different RX vs TX tone or code, or does it use a CTCSS tone for one and DCS for the other?

Never have used it. Reading about the intent of it, I understand the idea.. but this seems like a "feature" that no one really every asked for, and I am not surprised that it does not work well.

Is this just on the H3 PLUS firmware? Stock firmware? The TD-H3 (original) update files seem to be named different from that... latest for the (NON PLUS) version seems to be H3_250317 Does anyone know anything good or bad about that one?

Let me know if my PM reply to your PM on this helped.. if so I can post it here to help ohters in the future.

Sent you a PM after you PM'd me about this. if what I send you solves it.. I'll repost it here to help others with the issue.

I fully agree. I could not figure out why I would want to use my phone to talk on my radio if they were both right there within Bluetooth range.

Yeah, I am sure it is not the ideal radio for everyone. The two TD-H3s I bought were the first ones I bought for GMRS and they are great for getting into it.. .and still are great for my main use which was using it mounted on my bicycle. Nice and light and small for that use. Also great that it can get popped into a jacket pocket and is not heavy and large. They have actually surprised me at how much range they can do - simplex and to the local repeaters. And honestly i like how they do a/b channel watch more than the radioddity DB-25G mobile unit I bought. They have a separate indicator/marker for activity received on the A or B channel... and another marker showing which channel you have your transmit set on. I like this much better than how the DB-25G does it.. where there is only one marker and it jumps the active transmit selector to every channel it hears activity on .. which can cause you to transmit on a different channel than you intended to! if TidRadio made a nice Mobile unit with the kind of multi channel handling that their TD-H# has.. I would buy it!

I have tried it a few times... I much prefer using CHIRP to program... and doing quick changes on the keypad of the radio itself is pretty easy. so yeah I would likely use OD master as a last choice if I had to.