OffRoaderX

Geezus..Learn to read the room dude.. In my Jeep I started with a BTech GMRS 50X2, after a year or so i upgraded to the KG-1000G which I used for a few years and then replaced that with a Motorola XTL5000 (NOT recommended for most people).. IMO, the KG-1000G is the best choice for most people in this forum. The entire time I have been using a Midland MXTA26 antenna. A simple setup like this (any of the 3 radios I've had) will work more than well enough for most people, no need to learn about db gains or noise reduction %%.. Those terms, when over-used, are most often spouted by "some people" that feel an uncontrollable urge to try and show everyone how smart they think they are.

What do you mean "open carrier" ... Do you mean you are getting the "kerchunk"/click/static sound back? If so, then you are hitting the repeater and it is entirely possible (probable, on many repeaters) that nobody is listening to answer you. If you mean something else by 'open carrier', please elaborate. Remember: GMRS is primarily intended for you and your friend/group to stay in communication with each other while hiking/off-roading, etc. It is not primarily intended to find/talk to strangers.

The + indicates an offset, meaning you are on a repeater channel and is not related to the bandwidth.. Check again on page 17 of your manual.

How it started: If you bought the New GRMS UV-5R BAOFENG, please let us know how it works. How its going: Currently I have 10 of the 3170’s and 8 of the 3173’s, which is the same radio except it as trunking / What about the software for the nx-1330?

Its true, the groundplane is much not optimal in that location.. But "some people" really seem to confuse "will not work" with "may not work 100% perfectly as it possibly can"

I use an MXTA26 mounted on the rear tailgate of my Jeep, which gives me a very poor groundplane, and all the of the experts tell me it wont work.. I've hit over 30miles with it on simplex and can hit a repeater 92 miles away, so it works good enough for me.

This is a very bad choice for many people because the programming software/CPS has a very steep learning curve, is often difficult if not impossible to find, often (depending on the radio/software) does not run well on newer computers, things like batteries, cables, etc, are also often difficult to find or expensive, and it will almost certainly cost a lot more. And most important: Those commercial radios are not Part 95 approved so it is illegal to use them and they will go to jail!!!!!1 I know this because I've seen this posted on this forum 100 times or more. Sometimes "cheap junk Chinese radios" are plenty good enough for normal people, despite the poor QC, but "some people" just cannot seem to grasp this simple fact and will live the rest of their lives proselytizing against inexpensive radios completely oblivious to other people's needs/desires.

The official and unambiguous answer is: The FCC, based on their public record of enforcements clearly does not care, so why would I (or anyone with a life) care?

Not if you're out of range.

I read on RepeaterBook that a guy was using GMRS Channel 16 north of Line A and he was fined $250k. But seriously, as pointed out, if you are north of "Line A", then i amend my response to "there may be restrictions on what pairs you can use".

No, that is not accurate, and all pairs are usable. To avoid interfering with any other repeaters, a good idea is to listen to all the repeater channels for a few days to see if there is any activity and check on the MyGMRS repeater map to see if there are any others listed in the area - then just pick a pair.

Generally you download from the radio first, SAVE THE FILE, then make your changes, THEN upload.. The download confirms that you have the correct radio and comm port settings selected. Are you able to download?

Like @Sshannon said, your farz probably wont change in any way that you will ever see or notice, but just knowing that you have that additional power feels good.

I got my 50FT of LMR400, pre-cut with ends on it from Amazon.. Was delivered the next morning.

The GMRS rules/limitations dont allow you to do it over the air, but there is nothing saying you can't link over the internet.

most of us So.Cal natives would not call that much of an earthquake, but the local news made it sound like the end-times because of the combination of the "Hurricane and Powerful Earthquake" .

You should be able to listen to your emergency frequencies as long as they are within the freq-range that the 935 can pick up, and are analog signals.

I am dead-center in the path of the storm... Extreme rain and hazardous squalls were predicted to arrive beginning at 4am... it is now almost 1PM and we got some light drizzle that stopped a few hours ago, and I think we had a couple of wind-gusts that might have topped 3-4mph... The local news is really having a rough time finding anything to scare us with but God bless them, they're trying.

Can Clemente is pretty far south from us and right on the coast so it could still get nasty there.

Which desert? I know that Joshua Tree/29 Palms area was getting heavy rain Fri/Sat, but not directly related to Hillary... I'm in the IE and so far all the predictions of death & destruction that were supposed to have begun 6 or 7 hours ago have amounted to nothing more than a little light drizzle (which stopped 2 hours ago) with 0 wind.

I know dozens that do.

My God! The horror! Let us know if you need any help or support getting through this.. Everyone knows how hard this type of traumatic experience can be for some people..

There is no need to overcomplicate this like so many here tend to do: YES - If you hear a morse code ID on simplex, that likely means there is a repeater within range NO - this does not mean the repeater is open and this does not mean that no RX/TX tones are required to use the repeater If it is a repeater you cannot use it on simplex - you will hear it, but you cannot reach/use/transmit on it via a simplex channel

No.

If you tell someone that over the air, unless it is a business/LMR frequency that you have paid for, you deserve snark comments. Nobody can claim that you cant use a channel.. Well, they can, but you can ignore them or laugh at them when they tell you that. Then CAN claim that you cant use their repeater, and while you should honor their request, there isn't anything they can do to stop you, and the FCC wont care, just just play nice.