Northcutt114

That tracks for me. Thanks for the response!

So is the idea, specifically with CW, that it's already hardwired into the repeater, Station Identification is required, and therefore CW is the easiest way to accomplish that?

Is there a reason that one would choose to do this? Morse Code, in 2025?

I mean, "obvious" is a strong word, but yeah, it's certainly logical. I was just making sure. I assume that's not something that analog radios are able to do? You'd need a digital radio, yeah?

So let me ask a follow up question to this. If a radio can identify itself to a repeater and then the repeater can allow it access, can the opposite be true, as well? Can a radio be "banned" from a repeater by not allowing it's ID?

I can see, especially on a repeater or a net, where - if you have fifteen different users with fifteen different roger beeps, AND the repeater might have some tones or squelches or something - it could be a little bit chaotic. But, on a quiet, simple repeater to immediately be told, with no tact, to "turn off your roger beep" is wild to me. Same vibes as the guy who wears the CCW sash. Calm down, Boss Hog. You'll get them Duke Boys one day.

To your first question, that would depend entirely on the person on whose repeater you are speaking. With the GMRS license, your whole family is allowed to use the radio. I think you are correct in wondering about the rest of the users wanting/not wanting to hear you and your daughter talk. It is a courteous thought. My advise would be to key up and ask when you hear traffic. Make sure your daughter knows basic radio etiquette see how it goes. I routinely speak with my daughters but we use simplex and tones to ensure they don't hear any untoward traffic that may be out there. To your second question, short answer is "no." There's not a way to filter incoming RX from the repeater. In for a penny, in for a pound, so to speak.

It is interesting to me that so many people in the GMRS community, if one can call it that, have such strong opinions about something so silly. Is it because CB bois use it and GMRS people are much more serious "radio operators?" What's the aversion? I really don't get it.

Pretty much. Except GMRS can do repeaters.

Uh... unless I'm mistaken this is not correct. AM CB will talks more fars than FM, no? As to @LeoG's question as to what is the difference? FM is a little cleaner, sounds a little warmer. But nobody, en masse, is talking on it so unless it's you and someone else you plan to have comms with, there's no need to get one. I have one. It stays on AM band 24/7.

I'm really wrestling with what, in this thread, is the most odd and simultaneously impressive. The fact that the OP has been a member of this site for 4 years and has only just now chosen to post or the fact that his first post is literally a letter to POTUS. I applaud the energy you expended on what is almost certainly a wasted effort.

To shore up what the others are saying, I also have an AM/FM CB and no, there is no one using FM. Sometimes I leave it on FM and I can pick up AM to see if it sounds any better but it mostly just sounds muddy. I don't suspect FM is ever going to catch on in CB.

This ^ is correct. It's menu setting 21 & 22. MDF-A and MDF-B, hit the Menu button again to get the cursor down and then push the up or down arrow to toggle between Channel and Name. ETA: I see this has already been answered.

Where is it written? Nowhere. No one is saying that. OP was asking for a Charleston area repeater and we were just saying that one out in the boonies on Clements Ferry Road isn't really going to help the "Charleston area."

"Once upon a time" You mean when I was a boy?