marcspaz

I suspect you are teasing me about the Jeep, but just in case... Yep... full-sized vehicles. No ATVs/UTVs/etc. are allowed in my group. Buggies, Jeeps, Blazers, Broncos, short-bed F150s and 1500s, etc. should all be fine. 250/2500 class and larger will probably be too big for the trails we will be on. There are other groups at the event that are geared toward ATVs/UTVs/etc..

I know many folks in this group like to go offroading with your full-size vehicles. GMRS is one of the tools we use to enhance our experience while enjoying outdoor hobbies. This ride is in 2 months and a bunch of openings are available. My son and I are guiding a Blue/Black group for Krawling 4 K9’s at Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area, in PA, on October 19th. This is a fundraiser for a good cause and a good excuse to go wheeling. If you would like to join us, go to the link below to sign-up. Select “Full Size Vehicle Registration”, choose your full-size vehicle group type of "Blue/Black", and then pick the group trail guide named OCD Offroad Shop – Group 9. https://brushfire.com/protection4paws/krawlingfork9s/564418/register?fbclid=IwY2xjawEVOHlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHS0S1ef1v03wnrB9mpDFxg-U7CNC0rpG2lsv47DBqro1adclVyYAFMcLPQ_aem_xPGnhbnaBmkFotJRGc1TIg We only have 4 slots left for this group at the time I am sharing this info. If you are looking for a little more or a little less of a challenge, there are plenty of other groups available. Hope to see you there! There are going to be some aggressive trails for our group. Please be sure your rig is built for the type of wheeling we will be doing. If you have questions, let me know. Protection4Paws FB Event Link - https://www.facebook.com/events/649665953824067

What radio is it? I'm not sure you can 'upload' tones, you just select them. Need more details to help.

Now that Randy has officially accepted blame (thank you, Sir), its safe for me to start some trouble.... As Steve posted above, 95.1705(f)(2) says "The licensee must maintain access to and control over all stations authorized under its license." Being 4 hours away is definitely not maintaining "access to and control over" the licensee's station. While we don't know the actual intent of the rule, based on the way the paragraph is written, I am inclined to agree with @WRXB215 interpretation of the rule.

@OffRoaderX... Im blaming you for this one. My hands are clean. :‐D

I leave my dual watch disabled unless I'm running splits, like relaying my transmit through a crossband repeater, but listening directly. Then, I just lock the keypad once it's set up.

Sometimes I'll mess with people I know while they are on the repeater... they will ask me where I am and I'll reply "Departure, this is Viper zero one passing two thousand for two zero thousand."

@tweiss3 I can see all that. I wish I had a recommendation for you. I just set it and whatever it's at is where it stays until Iget where I'm going. I was able to work around the offset issue by running splits instead. But that was the only creative solution I came up with.

I would have to ask what you mean by better? It's not feature-rich, but I have confirmed contacts in 104 countries while mobile (actually in motion) with the 891. It performs better on receive and SSB better than any other radio I have ever owned or operated. This is the list of countries (DX Entities), with the memorable being Alaska, Australia, Japan, Hawaii and South Africa. Alaska Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Australia Austria Azores Bahamas Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bermuda Bonaire Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Cayman Islands Ceuta and Melilla Chile Clipperton Island Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador England Estonia Finland France French Guiana Germany Greece Guadeloupe Guyana Haiti Hawaii Honduras Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kaliningrad Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Madeira Island Malta Martinique Mexico Montserrat Morocco Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Northern Ireland Panama Paraguay Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Romania Russia San Marino Sardinia Scotland Serbia Slovak Republic Slovenia South Africa South Cook Islands Spain St Helena Island St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia St Martin St. Maarten Suriname Svalbard Sweden Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Ukraine United States Uruguay US Virgin Islands Venezuela Wales

Oh yeah, I do that now with all kinds of LED lights. My wife has a string of LED lights wrapped around the back french doors and when I am on HF, once I get to around 500w or more, even when unplugged, the LED's stay lit when I'm talking. When I am over 800w, the lights in the garage turn on, too.

I was at a gas station last year, pumping gas, when I heard my buddy call me on the radio. I reached in and grabbed the mic... completely forgot my 300w amp was on (feeding a 7dBi gain antenna) and when I keyed up, I crashed 3 fuel pumps at the same time... like screens turn off and the systems did a soft restart. I thought for sure I broke them.

Not gonna lie... for a minute there, I though Rich finally go sick of me messing with people. LOL

A few years ago, I was looking at those, bu there was a 4-6 moth lead time. So, I bought a Diamond SD330. I'll have to see if there is still a long lead time. I like the power over coax feature, which is the biggest draw for me.

I have an 891 in my Jeep. I really need to get an ATAS.

As in Chris Christie?

Agreed. With Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES), when we are doing volunteer work for Gov agencies / Red Cross / Etc., we stick to NIMS / ICS principles about not using acronyms, codes or shorthand. Everything is spoken in clear language. During times of difficult communications, we will use the phonetic alphabet to improve readability.

VHF and UHF Ham bands don't perform any different than GMRS. They are still LOS with the occasional ducting making comms interesting. Typically, when I am on the road, I use 20m or 40m General class frequencies for random chats while driving. It works a lot better, and you can get monoband antennas that are only about 87" that work very well. I have made exactly zero contacts on 220 and 33cm. Even though there are repeaters up, the band segment may as well not even be allocated... its so dead around here. And I talking over a 25+ year timeframe.

I love me some good ole grinder action. Not just that plain ham crap. A few days ago, I got myself a big Italian... so hot... I'm in love. My wife says I need to stop for my own good, but brother let me tell you... salami, old-world capicola, pepperoni, mortadella, provolone, fresh out of the oven... I just can't help myself. The dude who made the sandwich was pretty friendly, too.

GMRS / FRS is another band for everyone to use, including people who may also have an Amateur Radio licensees. My best advice, if it bothers you, turn the dial or turn it off. Try to keep ion mind that if talented Hams and professional radio techs & engineers didn't get involved with GMRS, there would be very few repeaters in the US and I'd wild to guess that the coverage of most would be in 2 to 8 miles areas. I think I know what you are talking about here. We have several repeaters around here that overlap, but none of the overlapping systems are in the same city. For example, there is a repeater outside of Haymarket VA on 462.650MHz, and another in Alexandria on 462.650MHz. but with a different tone. So, you may hear someone say something like "This is WRAY007 Alexandria 650", so if someone hears them, they know what repeater to respond on. Many of us have our radios scanning or we may be listening to one of those two repeaters, which have different tones to open the repeater receive. For people who don't use tone squelch on their personal radios so they can hear everything, they will hear traffic on both repeaters. Saying the city and frequency makes it easier to reply to someone calling if you know what repeater they are on. Especially if you are scanning while driving and you can't safely take your eyes off the road to look at the radio display.

There is no money in it.

I will only vote down an answer if it is not only wrong, but could possibly cause problems for people who don't know any better and try to use the bad information. And yes, the ignore feature is pretty handy.

I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night. LoL

I'm sorry bud... you're just wrong and people are messing with you because you won't let it go. I certainly won't give anyone grief for following the rules, but its not illegal or against the rules to talk to people through a repeater from a radio in your house. It's not a matter of people snubbing their nose at the rules, but the fact that what you are saying is not only wrong, but unenforceable for reasons presented elsewhere. You starting another thread isn't going to make it any less wrong.

There are a lot of technical forums were they offer this service. A user posts a question to a problem and the correct answer (the one used to resolve the problem) gets voted as the correct answer and moved just below the question post. It's very common.

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, its probably because I'm alone.