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and risk a hefty fine or jail time?  It's your choice, but is it really worth it?!
SOURCE: "some people" on this forum.

Akshully - In most (all?) states you cannot simply "look up" info from a license plate.  Whereas anyone can look up someone's full legal name and address in about 3 seconds on the FCC's freely available and widely-known website.
Not saying criminals are going to be searching out people on vacation as the OP suggests (that's stupid), but comparing looking up a vehicle tag to a callsign is not a valid comparison.
..and if i've learned anything from people on this website, it is that minor little pedantic details like this are apparently very... VERY important and worth arguing over for days or even months to prove who thinks they are smarter...

My money is on a tone being stored on the channel.

Make sure they are all on the same frequency Make sure they are all on regular simplex channels, not repeater channels and/or do not have a +/- split  Make sure none of the radios are using any CTC/CTCSS/DTC/DPL tones or codes Make sure the radios are at least 50 feet apart from each other when testing

If you want the repeater to remain more stealthy, no kerchunk makes it sound like people chatting on simplex..

So I have a question. Why haven't you put one up?

Because instead of being a pillar of the community and putting up a repeater, they go online and complain about there not being enough repeaters for them to use.

There aren't really any good ones out there.

You are 100% correct that they are not only our representatives, but they are also there to serve us.. But It's cute that you think this would actually accomplish anything because they all seem to have forgotten about that part of the job.

If you want the repeater to remain more stealthy, no kerchunk makes it sound like people chatting on simplex..

There is a setting for the kerchunk.. "STE" i think?  I would double check for you but both of mine are boxed back up and ready to be given away to lucky viewers.

I emailed BTech support and got a reply that you can't program "no tone" in the software; you have to do it from the keypad. I said that didn't make a lot of sense when you have software available. She got kinda snotty with me and said, "You do realize it's a GMRS specific repeater and you can't change the repeater pairs?" I said yes, I know that, but it doesn't address my issue. She shot back with, "Most of our customers prefer to do programming from the keypad anyway." I wanted to ask, "Or do they just program from the keypad because your software sucks?" but I figured it would be pointless and just let it go.
Bottom line -- you can do it, but only from the keypad.

There aren't really any good ones out there.

upon reflection - it probably is common because the FCC website is such a dumpster-fire that a lot of people may create an FRN for a license then are never able to log back in/recover it for an additional license, so they end up having to create a new FRN... This happened to me..

There aren't really any good ones out there.

There aren't really any good ones out there.

You thought wrong. The only requirement regarding language is that your callsign be announced in English, and even if there was a requirement that you use only English on repeaters, it wouldn't matter because the FCC does not enforce the rules (ie; they dont care).
Welcome to the exciting and dynamic world of GMRS in the L.A. area!

There aren't really any good ones out there.

There aren't really any good ones out there.

I have had a few radios that did this with DTCS tones.. Switched to CTCSS and the problem went away on all of them.

I have had a few radios that did this with DTCS tones.. Switched to CTCSS and the problem went away on all of them.

You thought wrong. The only requirement regarding language is that your callsign be announced in English, and even if there was a requirement that you use only English on repeaters, it wouldn't matter because the FCC does not enforce the rules (ie; they dont care).
Welcome to the exciting and dynamic world of GMRS in the L.A. area!

I just randomly came across this review of the RT97L that was published on Youtube about 3 minutes after you made this post: