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It is quite fine to ramble on. He just sounds like an jerk. For all he knows you have a mother in law there, that you go to visit 2x a month. Asking permission was just a courtesy. Brush it off. There are plenty of awesome repeater operators and folks out there. A lot of the ones i contact just tell me the repeater no longer exist or etc. Their money their equipment. In your terrain you may be quite frustrated with the range of a HT or even a mobile unit. I have you thought of a sat phone or an aprs unit with text capabilities? Although the aprs units (ie. Spot etc) have their own limitations. Personally, I am still working on my bugout gear (three tiered). Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

First off, sorry for any intrusion of privacy you may feel. I looked at your ID on the FCC database to get an idea of what the topography looks like in your area. For short distance coms I believe you will be fine, although having your home nestled in a wooded valley isn't going to help with the distance. I would contact the owner of the CP650 GMRS repeater and see if you can get permission to use it. H*** the owner may come out to see if he reach that far and give you some insight locally as what to expect. Then you can see if you can further your range. You do seem to have some serious mountains between you and the town north of you. The town I keep referring to is the big one north east of you. A handheld may not be able to reach out very far. Which may hamper you ability to contact the wife in town. Also check with the local HAM club, you have some a couple 2 meter repeaters in town. Tech license seems pretty easy (studying for mine). Then any one with a Technician license can legally walk around with the UV82. No one is going to slap you with fines if you have a family member bleeding out on a trail and calling for help on a HAM band. In fact may HAMs have facilitated in saving someone's life. Just keep in mind that the FCC's definition of an emergency is probably not the same as yours. In my area (Rockville/Potomac MD) the terrain, rolling piedmont, with tons of trees. "Keep Maryland Beautiful" really translates to don't you dare touch that tree and if you do contact us and plant another one. In have some spots around my house I get awesome coverage, drive to Walgreens 3/4 miles away and even using the upper channels on the GMRSV1 it will break up quite a bit. Have toyed with a local personal repeater. The local HAM repeater 4 miles from my house, on top of a government building, I have heard as far as 16 miles away. I will have a better idea once I join the club and get my license,

Contact repeater owner. Ask for permission. Get tones if they use any. Program tones with frequencies. Do you know if it is simplex or duplex?

"You are not authorized to access this page." when click on the link. I kinda wish it had a detachable face like the BTech UV-50X3. Gonna have to go through the whole manual to see if has a detachable face like some of the Yaesu mobile units.

You'll receive fine. But any memory slot you add will not transmit. I was trying to add repeaters and could not keep duplex setting to stick, close chirp and reopen it. For now I use the memory slots as a phone book of tones for repeaters i may run into, with a custom friendly name. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

Chirp programs it fine. It however can't do a lot due to the firmware lock down on memory spots past 30. Instead of a frequency lock it is locked by the memory slots. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

I made the mistake in hoping that the radio could be programmed with the repeaters and their tones. It was a mistake on my part, realizing now that yes you can program the repeaters but can't have presets on the other memory slots. Bit hard to program while driving, nor would I want to. Kinda a moot point. With the power levels, I was hoping that the information was actually listed in the manuals that came with the radios. However, My manual (radio is less then a week old) didn't mention anything about the ability to change the power levels. Not that makes much difference since I will be messing with it.

New Update. -My Manuals does not have the power rating info in the manual. --I can receive and send through GMRS channel 8 (467.562) which should be restricted, since max power rating should be 0.5w on GMRS and FRS. Even after the revisions by the FCC. -Talking to Btech support the radio is crippled after the "hard-loaded" channels 1-30. So you can not create a custom memory slot and preconfigure a duplex repeater to it. Since there is no way to set the offset. You are going to have to manual (on the fly) add any tones to the "hard-loaded" memory slot. "Transmitting channels are hard-loaded (1-30); tones can be adjusted on the fly - but any additional channels added (0, 31-128) would be for receive only" Net essence a big "F" you if you have a repeater on a non-standard deviated pair of frequencies. Not like that happens often. Slight difference from earlier version which were locked to channels 0-23. Firmware Version USG2418 Serial Last 4# 2483

Hello PastorGary,haneysa and Logan5. Didn't want to make anyone feel left out.

Is the Motorola your go to radio or does the size kinda put it the number 2 spot? Pretty much finished programming the 2x GMRS-v1 I have. Even with a 6.5" counterpoise antennas (and without) on them they aren't as clear or loud as the QuanSheng UV-R50 ( Baofeng UV5R clone). I've swapped the Nagoya Na-771 and Nagoya NA-701c between the two radios and the QuanSheng sounds better. No range test on them either. Not a Ham yet so the UV-R50 is pretty much receive mode only radio for me. The build on the GMRS-v1 feels sturdier then the Quansheng, not like it matters they are all cheap radios and the UV-R50 won't see action for a while. Should be interesting to see whom performs the best. An expensive American radio, expensive Japanese radio or a cheap Chinese radio. Obviously, all three could of have been made in China.

Figured out the skip issue... It was an IDtenT error. This idiot programmed the NOAA stations twice once with skip the second without skip enabled.

Thanks for the info on the power setting. Found the following issues. However, I am not sure if it is Chirp or because of the way the radio is set. -Unable to set "Duplex" offset. It won't save it + or -. ---- Doesn't even record it as saved if you close the file and reload it. -Scan skip. Shows saved but doesn't actually skip the channel. Ie. NOAA Any one else find any issues with programming.

Running through programming via chirp right now. Anyone know what the high setting actually outputs on the power level? The radio by default has everything set to low power.

I don't remember seeing anywhere online, manual etc. Where you can remap any of the buttons.

I guess I should add will we see your opinion/comparision on the quality, reception and usage of you fleet?

Just got my gmrs-v1 pretty happy with it thus far. Well at least compared to my Uv-r50. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

Love the site thus far. I was afraid it was kinda dead. Anyone know of any primers or faqs? Otherwise I am going to have to start reading a lot more. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

Thanks again. Not even a day and two new faces for me to say hi to.

Awesome

New to the forum and GMRS in general, I'm located in the Potomac/Rockville MD area. Just wanted to say hi.

Anyone know if it is still alive and reaches down to Ocean City, MD like the inlet park. Would be awesome if it did.