OffRoaderX

It does not really require much research - just follow this formula: IF radio is manufactured after 2017 AND IF radio says "GMRS" on the box THEN = FCC Type Accepted* *99.9998% of the time

1: YES - you also have to add the correct "TX" or Transmit tone .. The RX/Receive tone is optional 2: GMRS is not primarily intended to "get into conversations with others" - but if you insist, just call out and ask if anybody wants to talk to you. There is no protocol other than talking normally and using your GMRS callsign at least once every 15 minutes.

Be careful!!1 I have read that the rubicon guy is just a shill for cheap chinese radios and will say anything the manufactures tell him to say!!!1 I know it must be true because the people that say that have been licensed ham radio operators for 20+ years, it says so right in their forum signature!!1

Yes, there will be interference.

Should have got the BoofWHang!

The only other option is to give a fake address, but that violates the rules so either Ham Registry or a PO box are the only FCC-acceptable ways to keep your address private.

Are you talking with your friends on the trail, or trying to bounce signals off the moon and talk to strangers across the planet? If you are using your radio for talking to your friends on the trail then SWR of 1.4 is fine and SWR of 2.4 is good enough. Stop overthinking it and just enjoy the radio.

Maybe they can hear you, but just don't want to talk to you.

No. The Output Tone is always optional and is only used to limit what you hear to only that repeater.

Although overload is a real thing, after testing LITERALLY every GMRS handheld manufactured in the last 5 years, I have never, EVER, NOT ONCE seen any overload/desense issues unless the radios were closer than about 75 feet, an 90% of the time they had to be closer than 25 feet or so. To claim that overload is an issue at up to a 1/2-mile, on its surface, seems like a preposterous over-exagguration, based on my very extensive testing. But that's just my experience..

Fixed that for you. For someone that is already at least vaguely familiar with what repeaters are and how they work, its a "little" more difficult.. For someone that knows absolutely zero about nuthin, it is going to be a LOT more difficult.

It's H.A.M.! You passed a test, you should know better.

All of your radios are H.A.M. radios, so they probably won't be able to transmit on the GMRS repeater.. But, if they are unlocked, you can ignore the 'output' tone until you know what you're doing, and just use the input tone by entering that in your repeater-channel setup which will be specific to each radio. You have a lot to learn - there are no simple, quick answers.. Unless you had real GMRS radios, then it is actually pretty simple and quick to use a repeater.. but you have H.A.M. radios.. sooo...

No way you're going to get MY toilet paper... Nice try..

I chose a Vertex VXR7000 and a Tram1486. I chose the 1486 due partially to its very low wind-profile.

Edit: Nevermind

Moisture bearing vegetation is even worse than houses full of .. .fat people!

You can't (yet) use CHIRP to program your UV-5G+.. Your best hope is IF you can copy and paste the info from CHIRP into the UV-5G Plus software. Or export from CHIRP and import into the UV-5G+ software, and I'm not sure the 5G+ software can do either.

I never thought of this. I will check the other harmonics (above and below) for 462.6000 and see what I hear.

Then why does it occur on all my radios (forgot to mention in my list above it also happens KG-1000G+) and why did it just start happening a few months ago?

If you are using a real GMRS radio you dont need to hassle with the offset, just switch to the correct repeater channel - IF the repeater truly does not require a tone, then thats all you need. My guess is that it does need a tone, but it's just not there for whatever reason.

I am hearing it with my Baofeng UV-5R, My Motorola XTS5000, and my XTL5000.

are your two radios at least 50 feet apart from each other when testing?

Where are you located? I've noticed this on Channel 17 for the last month or two, almost everywhere I go when I'm off-roading and at my house. This means I am hearing it over an area that is thousands of square miles of southern California - even when i'm deep in canyons where there is no line of site to anything. I am starting to think it is sunspots or aliens.

Because they all have a better signal/are closer to the repeater than you, and you have an HT with a small antenna/are further away/have more stuff between you and the repeater. The best thing you can do is connect to a bigger/better/external antenna or get closer to the repeater. A mag mount stuck to a cookie-sheet placed up high/near a window can work great.