Rulander

What did you change in your search criteria? When I first signed on to this page, I had around 7 repeaters in the proximity of my country. Now, the map only shows 2. I don't know where the others went

That's awesome. Most of the traffic in my area is on a repeater over 40 miles from my house. I only have HT's so I can't hit that repeater from here. I did however get my new 45w mobile unit in the mail today. I can listen to most of the conversations on that repeater, but I feel left out. Our local one sucks. I'll get my mobile setup either as a base station, or in my truck. I just want to join the party

Funny you mention that. I actually have a 45w mobile unit being delivered today. I haven't decided yet if I want to use it as a base station, or put it in my truck.

Unfortunately, I can not hit that same repeater from my house, which is about another 5 miles south of the in laws house. It's unfortunate because I sit here and scan and get nothing. Again, our local repeater sucks. I can however talk simplex to my brother in law 5 miles away. I gave him his first radio yesterday hoping that he gets into the hobby as I have

Yes sir. Aside from using the radios for off road comms, just shooting the bull over the airwaves seems to peak my interest. It wasn't too long ago that we had a bunch of local CB'rs that were on the radio in my AO. Including me. I guess this hobby brings that back in a way.

Earlier tonight, while watching some college football at my brother in laws house, I made contact with several stations on a repeater with my HT from approx 40 miles away. Everyone said I was coming in very clear and surprised at that. Apparently that repeater sits very high. Radio is a Tidradio TD-H5 with an NA771G. So far, this was the most radio communication I've had. Our local repeater sucks, so I've had very little contact since I got into this hobby. Tonight was fun!! That's all I have

I understand this. I'm just doing a trial test to see if I can pick up some traffic around here. It's only about 5 frequencies and I can program them manually before my laptop even boots up

I'm trying to add some local uhf-vhf frequencies and tones to a memory bank in my TD-H5. As per instructions, I go into vfo mode, add frequency, add tone, and select an unused memory bank ie: ch-31, save, and when scanning on channel mode, ch-31 should be in the rotation. This is not working for me. This radio is identical to the Radioddity GM-30. If anyone knows how to do this, help is appreciated. Thanks

Well, with all of this super advanced technical information that has been bestowed upon me, I have decided to leave my Roger Beep in a state of perpetual WTF. Thanks for all of your opinions

I told my wife to delete that!!!

I appreciate the input guys!!

I remember back in the CB days they were cool. What's the current opinion in the GMRS world? Id hate to be "That Dork"

The wife and I were in Palestine a few weeks ago for my nieces graduation from nursing school. First time I've ever been there. I'm SW of Fort Worth and mainly stick around these parts, unless we're driving south to the beach.

I live in Texas and have never heard of Grapeland

10-4 on that. There is no way possible in this world that I can ever have the investment into radios that I have into firearms. Zero, none