OffRoaderX

It has been universally agreed to by some, and decreed by the Queen of all that is GMRS that channel 19 shall be the unofficial Official Road Channel for GMRS. So it is written, so shall it be done... Bear in mind that "some people" will vehemently disagree and argue to the death against this, but just remember that they are wrong.

Maybe DMR, maybe P25, maybe some other kind of digital protocol...

Yes, I have several recommendations.

It is important to point out that the rules posted by the esteemed Mr. @SteveShannon above, apply ONLY to FCCs part 95 Approved "GMRS" radios. Because the UV-82 is not an FCC Part-95 Approved GMRS radio and is instead a H.A.M. radio, EVEN IF you have a GMRS license, you are not permitted to by the FCCs to transmit on GMRS frequencies - and it is very likely that the UV-82 will not even allow you to transmit on those frequencies. Failure to follow these rules will, per many online experts, WILL result in a $10,000 fine OR up to 10 years in prison!

I ended up getting the lowest-end Dell laptop I could find and put Windows 10 on it to run my Motorola XTL/XTS and Vertex 7000 programs on it. For everything else I use CHIRP on my Mac or use the Windows versions of the radio manufacturer's programs on my Mac via Parallels and Windows 11 for ARM.

After seeing this exact same post on a very large Youtuber's video about the HAG1, I decided to pull out my remaining HAG1 (I had 4 but gave away all but one) to see if I could duplicate this, because i did not remember this occurring when I first got and used all of mine.. After 15 seconds of extensive testing I can confirm that this radio DOES add a squelch-tail sound at the end of simplex signal reception and I can find no Reverse-Burst or Squelch Tail Eliminator option in the settings to disable it.. HOWEVER - i cannot understand how this would be an issue for anyone - it sounds similar to when using a repeater.. it sounds like every walkie-talkie radio you ever see on TV or in the movies.. This, for me, is a non-issue, but it does exist, unlike on most other radios - if you had not pointed it out I would have never even thought twice about it.

That has been my philosophy my entire life and look where it's got me!

You sir would be an honored guest of The NotARubicon repeater and afforded all perks and privileges therein and whatnot.

FWIW, I thought your joke was humorous.

The duplexer is small and it can easily be removed from the VXR7000 if you know how to run a screws-driver.

What is your source for your "beginning to get tons of them [complaints]" statement? and... no, they will not act soon - based on the last 10 years of the FCC's enforcement actions, you are wrong. No, he won't. Nobody will, and statistically speaking, in the last 10 years, nobody has. Stop making up and spreading fairy-tales and lies, it makes you look uniformed and ignorant - and now everyone is laughing at you.

You cannot get it from Motorola, so your best bet is to get it from someone that has it - and they have to have the "installer" - if they just have it installed on their computer you can't just copy it over. Usually SOMEONE in most H.A.M./GMRS groups will have it.. You might be able to get it from whoever you get your cable from, no guarantee, but you can ask. Get the newest version you can get. I have the newest version (don't recall the version number) and I can only get it to run on Windows 10 - it will not work (correctly) on Win11 and I have read that most people have no problem with it on much older versions of Windows with 32bits. You don't tune the duplexer unless you know how, and you have the correct equipment - and if anyone here tries to tell you otherwise because "it's easy", you should ignore that person. Find someone in your local GMRS/H.A.M. group to tune it for you or pay $50 to your local radio-shop to do it for you.

You probably did it wrong.

There is an uncommon phenomenon known as the "latent sad-H.A.M.".. As we all know, sad-H.A.M.s are born, not created, and the vast majority of sad-H.A.M.s grow up to have the license, live in the basement, callsign license plates, etc.. HOWEVER - The latent sad-H.A.M. does net yet have, and in many cases may never actually achieve the life-prize of a H.A.M. license - but this does not prevent the latent sad-H.A.M. from exhibiting all of the attributes and defects of a sad-H.A.M., most of which you have pointed out. You find many of these latent sad-H.A.M.s frequenting places like GMRS forums, Reddit, night-clubs that cater to men, HOA meetings, shoe-stores, etc, and although they do their best to disguise their true nature and try to blend-in with the regular people, they are usually very easy to identify. SOURCE: ME! I am The Queen of all that is GMRS, my thesis was in sadH.A.M.ology, in 1987 I coined the term "sad-H.A.M.", and my Wikipedia page says that I know everything. I am also a YouTubes superstar so that gives me extra interweb credd.

X2 .. This is what i was going to recommend before getting distracted earlier.

Right - because soo many people have this need ... ... "some people" could over-complicate a door-knob.

Using YouTube for information does require a minimum amount of critical thinking, a small amount of reading-skill, and a bit of an attention span, so "some people" do have difficulty with it such as you are reporting.

That is the LA-Echo-1 repeater. The repeater has a huge footprint but the owners have been accused of questionable activities - and because of the clientele it is not the best choice for making new friends or use in an emergency.

Thank you for giving us your call-sign.

Just get the Grindr app for your phone - its much easier to find anonymous men to "communicate" with.

Not sure who you mean. I'm just a guy that's too dumb to get a H.A.M. license so I just hang around here and try to shill cheap Chinese radios.

Unless you think the repeater might be closed/permission-only, then just start using it. Worst case scenario is the repeater owner will come on and ask you to stop using it, but if all the info is listed publicly then it is probably "open" for anyone to use.. As far as your settings, that all depends on what model of radio you are using... Soooo ? But if it is a "GMRS" radio, just figure out which repeater channel to use based on the listed frequency for the repeater, then go to that channel and then into to menu setting and add/save the Transmit CTCSS or DCS/DTC tone and you're done, no need for guessing what settings to use in CHIRP.. HOWEVER - if you are using a H.A.M. radio, then... you should have bought a GMRS radio.. And in that case, good luck because you will need it.

Sometimes they get big-heads and go rouge.. I had that same issue.. You know what they say: Absolute power absolutely can be a problem..

Having owned/run a forum larger than this one, this makes zero sense to me. But, it's his ball, his rules.

Dude.. that IS hot!