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️ nice reading in that thread. I’ll look it over.

Thanks! I figured it was in the rules somewhere. My apologies for my lack of reading skill lol

This is a double post but I’ll add it here because it seems more relevant: what’s the rules defining the difference between a fixed station and a base station per 95.1767? Base is legal up to 50 watts yet a fixed station only to 15watts. What makes a station a “fixed” station.

In GMRS rules 95.1767 it states a fixed station must not tx more than 15 watts. It also says base station no more than 50 watts. What is the difference between a fixed station and a base station per their rules?

I just got one of these antennas and the paperwork with it does not show it covering 467 MHz. Think it cut off at 465mhz. Has me wondering if maybe the newer gp9nc antennas aren’t purpose built for gmrs….anybody know? Ordered from engineering and their online showed it covering to 470mhz. . . Then my paperwork that came with my gp9nc said ham only. Ugh ? Wish I had an antenna analyzer to check it before I put this thing up.

https://www.buytwowayradios.com/blog/2022/11/list-of-gmrs-frequencies-and-channels.html there’s all you need to program it so you can have gmrs frequencies. Mind the power settings as well. Use CHIRP software. Chripmyradio.com Be careful not to mess it up or you’ll possibly end up transmitting on hospital/school/county frequencies that you are ABSOLUTELY not allowed to do.

I prefer to activate car alarms with a 1000 watt transistorized spurious RF master blaster on 11 meters. I kid I kid it’s just a joke chill

Gmrs doesn’t have “do it yourself channels”. They are all pre-programmed.

Is GRMS different from GMRS school?

That is awesome to hear. Maybe I’ll use some gmrs repeaters more often hearing your pov and knowing you actually want to promote the use of the Johnstown one. I’ll see if I can hit it reliably on my drive home from work today!! And I wasn’t being rude about the “guys who build big repeaters comment”….. if it came across that way(?).

As a relatively new gmrs user, I myself don’t use repeaters often because I know they are owned by people who put alot of time money and effort into them. I didn’t help them. I just found them listed on a website as “open”. And as such I feel like if I get on those repeaters im tying up their air space, using their resources, drawing their power and cycling their machines of which I did nothing to help with. So I try to stay off them unless absolutely necessary despite them being listed as “open”. I’ve never for a moment thought the big repeater owners actually wanted traffic on their machines by anyone other than those they give permission or those that are in their close knit groups because that would put wear and tear on their system by people they don’t even know. Maybe I’m off base. Maybe other people feel the way I do and it could be the reason a lot of useless tiny coverage repeaters pop up. I personally would rather see 1 repeater convering an area well than 4 covering it poorly but who am I to make any comment on the subject as I bet repeater owners prolly feel like everyone just leeches off their hard work which is what goes through my mind every time I key up someone’s “open” repeater. None of this is sent in jest or malice whatsoever. Just adding into the conversation is all. Huge respect to everyone keeping the positive vibes and RF pumping off their towers and over the airwaves.

Ok, that’s kinda what I was thinking, but of course, after purchasing it I read multiple comments about only being able to use TC type connections which I assume means compression style like the Messi-Paoloni ones? Oof I may just cancel the order tommorow and reorder standard lmr.

Ok, so I may have made a minor mistake. I ordered Ultraflex lmr400 to replace a 80 ft run of rg8x. I ordered connectors for lmr400. Are standard crimp on and solder lmr400 connectors not going to work with the stranded Ultraflexlmr400? One end is pl259 other is type n male.

What is the output power of a 5 watt ht when it gets to the antenna after traveling 100ft up some rg213? About 1 watt. I’m calling shenanigans lol

ODmaster is terrible imo. Am I the only one who dislikes that horrid app?

Type N? Huh?

It’s called Appalachia. Trees so thick and hollers so deep mixed with rolling hills. Can’t see the neighbors house that’s 400 yards away. Kg1000+ 1.3/1.5 on the vizswarzometer

We. Don’t. Want. Your. Linked or networked. Repeaters on gmrs.

My 50watt gmrs won’t talk 5 miles in my part of the country.

I believe the plus offers Bluetooth connectivity for an auxiliary ptt, ear piece and some other things. The prior h3 was only Bluetooth compatible with their phone app.

Wonder if they’ll also do an h8 plus??

Operator error.

Gmrs is kinda unique. It’s pretty much used to communicate with only people you know personally. I rarely ever find it used as a radio service to make contacts with random people. That’s more of a ham radio or even cb radio thing. I personally found it surprising how few people use gmrs, so to fix that I built my parents a base station and I set my father in law up with an ht and a 5/8 wave mag mount on their metal roof so they too have a base radio. This made it a bunch more fun. Otherwise gmrs is just boring and rarely if ever hear anything on it other than repeaters taking up the entire high power spectrum of the channel list

Dang man. I’ve had 3 new neighbors move near me who replaced the old timers. None of them want to share numbers, or be neighborly at all. Absolutely odd af to me. But I guess that’s the difference in 15 years as I’m the old man on the block at mid 40’s and all these kids work from home and never leave their house. Thought it would be good to get to know them since there around all the time but nope. They have zero ability to be a neighbor whatsoever. Don’t even look up to wave when I pull in the driveway. Weird generation. Can’t believe their parents brought them up to become that way. Neighbor block watch around here can’t work when the neighbors don’t want to know your name.

I like how loud they are. The higher pitch speaker makes them easier to hear in loud environments than other ht’s. Also, mine has a glitchy thing where in wide band on receive it will sometimes exhibit it a sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sound when a frs radio is on the same channel transmitting. Switch to narrow band and this goes away. Never noticed this on my ocean or baofeng ht’s when communicating with frs radios.