TrikeRadio

I have had two H3's for a year now. Never had any problems with transmit power on either. But I have also NEVER charged them using the cradle charger... and always charge the batteries while they are disconnected from the radios. (I bought an extra battery for each radio and charge them off radio and swap in the fully charged battery. )

That sounds like a bit of a problem... since fire departments tend to be surrounded by a lot of heat and water.

I just thought they could at least provide a link in the app to the forums in the menu (that could take you to the browser / site... but I guess you would have to re-log in again anyway. oh well.

If you are using GMRS to communicate between multiple vehicles in your group, or have any local GMRS repeaters, then using during storm chasing might be useful... but if you are looking for locals reporting on the storms, more likely to find it on HAM frequencies or MAYBE CB -- I would guess.

Maybe I am missing something... I rarely use the phone app for MyGMRS but had a need to check it today, and it seems like there is no way to get to, browse, or post to the FORUMS via the phone App. Is that true or am I just missing it? Seems like you can only access the repeaters on the phone app.

I would say that is much better than a radio anyway!

Happy Father's Day to those out there who are. Did you get (or get yourself) any gifts related to your radio life?

I don't think there is any reason or even memory chips to retain GPS history in them is there? I would think it generates the GPS coordinates as needed when sending them as needed. But maybe some could store a limited history. anyone know?

I don't know a lot about the 2-way radios that have GPS built in. I know that they can transmit their coordinates to another radio (that has authorization? ) in some manner. No idea if they retain a history with timestamps.

Yeah, depends on what they are using to try to locate a cell or radio. I understand it is possible (for those authorized) to tell what cell tower is receiving the original cell phone signal which gets you in the area. I suppose with proper authorization they could figure out the photo and narrow the location down further by GPS. Two way Radios on the other hand would require triangulation by antennas near the transmitter and would still only give a general area location. plus, a phone (or phone network) probably retains locations and timestamps that can be used afterwards to establish where someone was at a particular time after the fact. so... there is that.

Oh... oops. Yeah that makes more sense. I only looked at the original poster's text and they typoed it like: "6/1/1/25" (extra dash in there between the ones! )

I knew there was at least a few day delay for the FCC site data getting to the myGMRS site ... but he said his callsign was issued on the first of the month... 15 days? that seems like there is a data feed problem on MyGMRS. I would suggest contacting the site help here to see if they can check that their callsign update is working properly.

Did that actually stop the people who were not authorized to use it? I would think most interfering users would figure out what the new tones / codes were pretty easily, unless they just got the tones and had no idea they were not authorized.

I have a DB-25-G... it is good, but it really works best using it on one channel at a time instead of trying to monitor all 4 that it can at a time. (sort of)... I don't like how it auto jumps to last channel it got activity on (even if it is signal that is squelched out because of the tones you have on that frequency/channel). It's interface is annoying if you are monitoring more than one channel because that. it can switch the channel you transmit on right before you reply and that is really stinks. and switching from multi channel monitoring would be better if you had a single keypress to do it... but you haev to do about 3 or four things in a specific order to do that so... yeah. Mostly menu / interface software that I don't like on it.

Yeah, toting around an HT with a 5 foot antenna is a little annoying! FRS is a little more convenient and less obvious when you are walking around.