Lookout765

- one in every crowd. Doesnt read, and just wants to put their 2 cents in.. i'll give you back your change. Yeah, Trolls be living under all kinds of bridges these days.

I would like to point out that the club is not charging anything.. to anyone. That was corrected a long time ago and I corrected it on the club discussion posts. There was at one point a consideration for a "Supporting Member" option, but abandoned because we dont have anything that costs money. yet. and unlikely to change.

There was a lot to unpack there, but i'm just going to be simple about it and say that there were internal discussions made about the group that were taking place. Anyone that has created any group will always want to start off with something they feel is epic and scale it down. There has been many changes and amendments. For the club, the language was a quick fill and has since been changed to address what the club is about. Many of the thoughts, concerns, or suggestions you had most likely were addressed in our internal discussions. But thank you for the inputs.

My god man, is there anything that can be done that is not an affront to you? Thank you for your permission as to what I may call my group/club.

Great question, but are you saying this is THE ONLY place we can do that? ie, gatekeeping? EDIT: No other club is required to only be on here. I only put ours on here in case there were people who wanted to go to other places. Like Discord, where we have other tools to 'hangout and chat' when not on radios somewhere.

It seems that some of my posts didn't quite clear the air, and some folks are still spinning GMRUS into a big, complicated deal. My apologies if the language was too formal. Let me try again and be as simple as possible. We're just a club. That’s it. A place for people who like GMRS to hang out and chat. myGMRS is a great place for people to chat, too. This is just another place, with different tools, if people want to join. Nobody is forcing anyone. The only reason the word "national" is even involved is because our clubhouse is online, so anyone can join the conversation, even if you live on the other side of the country. GMRS is a local thing, we all get that. But the people who use it are everywhere. The whole point of this is to have a place to connect with others outside of your immediate radio range. It's a way to swap ideas, ask questions, and see what other GMRS users are up to. There is no big agenda here. There never was any intentions to be the GMRS police, we're not lobbying anyone, and we are definitely not trying to be in charge of anything. It’s just a group of people who share a common interest. And thank you for the constructive criticisms, even if some of them are far off base. So, let's put this to rest. It's simple: you don't have to join, and it won't affect your life or your radio use in any way if you don't. Please, stop trying to turn this simple club into something it's not.

I wanted to address this quote separately. For the most part this is correct. There is explicit additions for the use of "public service" type activities, (ie CERT and SkyWarn) - and businesses. But I also see that they are trying to push the businesses side out even though they have them grandfathered (for now).

I really like the way you said this. That is one of the big reason I (and a few of my friends) have no interest in HAM. Many of the things we do are very much - locally. There is no need to chat with people a couple states away who are disconnected to what we're doing or going through (storms, etc). That's what email, social media, and cell phones are for. (although the prepper types will point out that potential issue here, and that, I understand the need for a dedicated communications expert to get information from further distances. but not everyone needs that)

ah yes, You're right on that. That is my bad. However, I do generally see some of the unwelcome vibe in social media sites. It does seem more 'specific' I guess here on this site. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

I'm not completely convinced about the HAM part. but I am going to defer my opinion and agree with this. I do feel that each of the systems have many great uses for them.

I had not considered all of that, but now that you mention it. I see it, and have to agree whole heartedly. I myself used to only listen from my FRS and an old Baofeng UV-82 for years. I was lazy and was convinced at one point that if I even tried to talk on GMRS without a license I was going to jail. So I was content with listening in like a car radio. I remember when the repeaters around me all started going silent too. Thank you for that perspective.

I did, and thank you. I might go out on a limb here and say for the most part that seems like the only "nice" section. It's gets a little wild outside of there.

I can understand. The part of " Nor should there need to be." is my hang up. For a radio service that advertises itself as being for families and group activities, there really should be some kind of friendly nature or support for and around it. YES. mostly agreed. A lot of the people I personally have interacted with and know that use GMRS (and FRS) tend to see it as the happy middle between CB's wild west cavalier users, and the well structured HAM. There is a bit of structure to GMRS, hence its used for EmComm activities and CERT where CB really has no practical use, and not much utility to HAM in local emergency response. I could be wrong though. That is why I really had preferred not to discuss much of anything here. But, since I was prompted elsewhere. Why not?! Also, thank you for the response.

Oh no, this topic wasn't introduced because of that. That was just one more thing on the list, yes. I've wandered this forum a lot before considering posting. and other places such as YouTube, etc. on the subject.

Absolutely correct. So that means there is room for ideas from other places. That is probably also why there is such lack of support for GMRS outside of a scattering of HAM operators who casually play around with GMRS.