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Omg 6HOURS without noaa? if we only had any other way to hear about the weather!!!! Maybe someone should invent a World Wide Web and put weather info on it!!!! Some times noaa goes down. Sometimes for hours sometimes for days. It happens. We just have to learn about the weather like people did 50, 100, 200…… years ago.

an h3 with issues AGAIN!

My limited understanding is when “activating” a park it’s just letting people know that you are in so and so park and you have so many contacts 10? I think then your station is active. It may go like this. “this is www123 has 10? Contacts activating Yellowstone national park.” but it’s been a while so I may be wrong.

So yes. Get a few friends or family together get some radios and go out and do an activity we’re gmrs radios would help communicate. Hike, bike, walk, boat, fish, hunt, go to a park, go to Disney land, take a road trip…… The list goes on. As soon as you do these things, anything, where communication is needed, and you use gmrs for that communication then yes you can hear gmrs radios In use.

The likelyhood is a fraction higher than zero - it's not absolute zero, but very close to zero.. Its funny how "some people" will proclaim that my cheap little CCR can't talk more than a few hundred yards, yet, one minute later they will proclaim that the same radio's spurious RF emissions will bring down a 747 at 38,000 feet or jam an entire police department's communications system from 5 miles away. OMG. The stars have aligned. I TOTALLY AGREE. spurious emissions is not something any one really needs to worry about. Atleast not from a ccr 2-5w ht

Welcome good set up so far. What do you do for an activity while using gmrs? Ham is great for chatting with others and you seam well on Your way to that. But gmrs is for use by friends and family, people you already know, while doing something, hiking, biking, road tripping ……. The list goes on.

Really? I’ve never experienced any issues at all with tyt radios baufang radios Motorola radios or kenwood radios. Radioditty and tidd radios just by the listed issues on this site alone are the worst radios I’ve ever seen. Fallowed very closely by midland. Just look at the actual facts on just this site. Count the number of issues with radiotitty Tidd and midland. If you count correctly you will see un biased factual numbers they have more issues then any others. I’m sorry it’s just a fact. Down vote me all you want but if you can count you will find numbers don’t lie. So if you need to, get a 5 year old to count how many times on just this one site these listed radios have issues right out of the box.

What are we needing to scan? It’s 22 channels and repeaters. Here is gmrs, You go out in a group. You all agree on a channel or a repeater or maybe both. Maybe even more then one repeater and a couple simplex channels. You do the activity. When you’re done you turn off your radio. What are we scanning? How many strange men do you really need to talk to in a day? If you scan 15-22 with no tones you just scanned every repeater in range. It takes a radio 3 seconds to scan that or less really. How many banks and repeaters does one person need to scan? I’m one of the few that uses gmrs radios every single day 365 days a year for 10-12 hours or more a day, for many reasons both work play and emergencies. I even use them in other states and I’ve never needed to scan multiple groups. Again it’s 22 channels.

Wow buy the topic head line “Closet Tales”I was figuring this was going to be a thread about what that weird guy that calls him self a queen does in the closet.

Thanks for confirming this. The radio with out trying Bluetooth is junk but try to add Bluetooth and it’s a whole new level of trash can. 2 people I know purchased this radio and had the exact same findings. I messed with them for a few hours and this is exactly what happened to me. The very next day they got sent back. They instead picked up some uv9 radios for less money with all the accessories and 771 antennas. . Hooked them up to chirp and had them hitting repeaters 60miles away and 40mile simplex within 15min out of the box. Some times simple is best. Keep It Simple

Might not want to double post? Helps keep all answers in the same place. Any way you can still return it.

Ummm a radioditty with issues?

Can they talk to each other (simplex) 100yards away with stock antennas? 200yards? 1/4 mile? Did you put the stock antenna back on it and see if it works like the other one? If they work simplex they work for the repeater. The h3 seams to be one of the worst radios made and the ghost salt shaker isn’t much better. Also where is the antenna mounted? As high as possible in the center of the roof? Or down on a fender with the cab obstructing it?

You didn’t say what radio/watts your base is but if everything else is working correctly and you really do have line of sight then it’s the junk pole antenna. Line of sight with a 5w hand held at 30miles should come in very clear so with a base and a good antenna like a comet 712efc and even a 15w base station with lmr400 cable 30mile should be a drop in the bucket.

Totally agree and the answer is NO they don’t neeeed that many repeaters. It’s turning into a macho thing. “I have more and bigger repeaters then ….” It’s causing many problems and upsetting other repeater owners. Some court cases have even come up about it. It’s getting crazy for something that should be used for family and friends while doing an activity.

With how horrible lithium is for the environment both when mining and later and how dangerous they are I won’t have them any place near my home or cars. Even at work we will not carry them in our trucks. We work with 48v lithium and we let ups deal with that. We have had many trucks and vans burn to the ground with lithium. Especially bad while driving on The freeway. you can get some very nice, however heavy, agm battery’s for much less money. One of my radios in the house runs off a 100amh agm and a trickle charger and in the truck I have a hard mounted 80amh agm mounted under the hood that is isolated from the truck batteries but charges off the alternator.

Just another example. For the money paid you could have gotten 3-4 better radios and had wide band all along.

I’d go with one of the 4’ “off road antennas”. Midland and others make them. They are no ground plane. Clamp on and light weight. Also just about indestructible for storing, and putting up and down. Also a great gain at around 6.6db.

Sounds like you have already made your decision. I only know of one group in that area that has a “membership fee” like that. I’d say you would have to join to find out if it’s right for you. I’m pretty sure you could get your money back if it didn’t work out.

I don’t see an “N” connector in the picture. That’s an sma to pl259. AND you should never connect a pl259 connector/big cable like that. You should have e a small light flexible pig tail with an sma to 259 adaptor. The way you have it it’s going to ruin the radio pretty quickly. It’s just much weight for the sma in the radio

Yea the internet has millions of hours of reading and videos for those that can’t or won’t read. If you or your friend is already familiar with chirp is super easy to ad an off set frequency and digital squelch tone.

This is how this works some times. You have a repeater or even another base station up high with a good antenna coax and 50w radio that can be heard from 50-60-100 miles away but not every one in those areas that can hear it are going to be able to hit it. It might be height, line of sight, antenna, coax, radio… the list goes on but this is totally normal. Some people can hit everything and some can’t.

Omg you mean for a weekend you couldn’t talk to random strangers on the radio? Did your foot fall off? Did your head explode? Did you have an emergency and no one would stand by? Didn’t you have anything else in your life you couldn’t have done instead of hanging out in the radio room all weekend getting upset?