marcspaz

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.

What do you mean I'm funny? What do you mean, the way I talk? What? Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it? Funny how? I'm funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to amuse you?

That doesn't surprise me. It's a government agency. LoL

@UncleYoda You don't think it's a little tiny bit silly to think that the FCC would make it against the rules to use a repeater from a radio at your house?

@UncleYoda @Lscott @SteveShannon So, a friend of mine helped me understand this a bit better. Evidently, using "base station" as a laymen term verse the technical term are not the same. My buddy pointed out that a base station (in laymen terms) that communicates with a repeater is classified as a "control station" by rule definition. So, in laymen terms, a base station can 100% communicate with repeaters, but they are classified as "control stations" while communicating through a repeater, for the sake of FCC rules. From the § 95.303 definitions... Control station. A station at a fixed location that communicates with mobile stations and other control stations through repeater stations, and may also be used to control the operation of repeater stations.

Unfortunately it's not an option for me.

The website is acting goofy on my phone. It posted duplicates several times. Also. the default sort on 'questions' is by vote count. You can change it to chronological order with a selection under the question...

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It's funny how people lose focus on the government exercising the will of the people, not the other way around. Also, you can't challenge a law or rule in court unless you have standing. The only to ways to have standing is to violate the rule or law and dispute allegations by an enforcement agency, or you have to go to court and tell the judge you either have or intend to violate the rule/law.

The reality is that this is another great example of how the rules are contradictory and therefore can't be followed. The rules specifically exclude using a base station to transmit on repeater frequencies. But the definition of a base station is defined by how it's used. So if I use a radio at a fixed location to talk to handhelds and repeaters, by definition it's no longer a base station. So how can the circular logic work? The short answer is, it can't.