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2 hours ago, WRXD372 said:
Summed up into one sentence: "At this time, the FCC has stated they do not have a target for the ULS systems to be back online."
At least since June 14:
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT June 14, 2023
To all radio amateurs
SB QST ARL ARLB010
ARLB010 FCC Universal Licensing System Applications Are UnavailableIt went down for "scheduled maintenance" on the 9th, was supposed to be back up on Monday the12th, but never came back.
I'd been watching closely for my own upgrade to show up (passed for general on the 3rd, tried extra on a whim, but came up short). Some of the batch processing feeds made it out because it wasnt showing on the 8th (Thursday) and I missed checking on the 9th before it went down, but the update has hit QRZ.
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If you bought it through the mygmrs shop, here is the page with contact info: https://shop.mygmrs.com/pages/contact-us
The other vendor that sells the kg100g is buytwowayradios, and here is their contact page: https://www.buytwowayradios.com/contact-us
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I'll try to look for it later on am actual computer, but I thought I saw something in r/gmrs not too long after the gmrspro came out that someone was successfully decoding the position reporting with a yaesu radio (ftm400, iirc).
edit: here's the search link that got a few hits near the top.
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2 hours ago, WRWD237 said:
I was driving South through Ventura, Ca. today (~5:30 pm) and caught what sounded to be a weekly GMRS net on 21. People were checking in with call-sign, but some were from New York, Florida and Long Beach, online/internet. Any ideas what this was? WDWR237 - Jeff
From what I see active on the map, Verdugo looks like the most likely suspect; it's a bit of a reach to ventura, but the description does indicate it being linked. The out of state activity coming via Zello is a definite possibility; I've dropped into a couple out of state repeaters that way before (when I still had access).
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46 minutes ago, majordude said:
So last questions, I think...
1. I heard something about colors? Am I completely lost in the weeds?
2. Repeaters and tones... does a specific repeater have a single tone or more that one tone? (Can you and I be on tone 1 and Jon and Sally be on tone 2 on the same repeater?)As @WRXE944 mentioned, color codes are a DMR thing, and not applicable to gmrs (currently, anyway, who knows for the future).
On the second item, it CAN be done to have a repeater accept more than one tone, it can be assigned to different users, or configured for local repeat vs also passing audio to linked repeaters. However, unlike DMR (and the time slots), it doesnt allow more than one user to use the repeater at the same time.
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26 minutes ago, Sshannon said:
I don’t know if it’s your end or mine, but I don’t see your photos.
They're not working for me either
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15 hours ago, WRUU653 said:
I am not an expert on this stuff at all, my two cents worth (half off today) is the rear light mount has a few things going for it such as height, position and ground plane. I’d be interested to see how that scenario works with something like the laird antenna that @wayoverthere linked.
Little more testing today...tested swr on the truck, both with the mag mount centered and with it moved to the back edge of the roof to approximate the 3rd brake light mount. Under 1.1:1 across the same places I tested previously, and no problem opening a couple uhf repeaters 30ish miles out (in the foothills) from my driveway.
Going to leave it on and hope to get some real world testing in this coming week. With the link from the local repeaters to the rest of the system down, things have been pretty quiet.
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I can't make any promises on function (as I haven't gotten a chance to test it on the truck yet), but this one is rated wideband enough for 70cm and gmrs (430-490). I did get a chance to do some limited swr testing with a handheld and a mag mount on a chest freezer, and the swr was good, about 1.2 or less everywhere I tested....a couple gmrs simplex and repeater inputs, 446.000, and a couple other 70cm simplex frequencies.
As 4wd fullsize is the plan down the road, I grabbed the phantom as a limited clearance option (assuming it works adequately in practice). Vhf...remains to be seen, Maybe a 2nd phantom depending how this does. Laird does have a couple vhf options, and I already have a diplexer.
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1 hour ago, WRTT642 said:
Heard about the new Kenwood TH-D75A and saw it posted on gigaparts. Was curious about your guy's thoughts on it. I am seriously considering getting it as I always wanted the D74, but was unwilling to pay the inflated prices for a used HT. What say you all?
Count me in the same boat....so much cool stuff that was discontinued by the time I got my ticket, so my interest is piqued. I'm always tempted to try something new, and the icom id52 had me curious, but this has some positives over the icom, even if it rings in at around the same price. Wanting actual APRS was pushing me to yaesu, though interface wise I prefer my icom, and have still been tempted to jump to the id5100. (Sorry, rambling)
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I wonder if something isnt a fan of that "awstrack.me" url that's being used as a redirect on all the links.
Chrome ony phone opens it without complaint, but in Firefox, my ad blocker flags it as a hit from the "ad and tracking site" list .
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7 hours ago, wayoverthere said:
I'll try to remember to get some numbers from mine too...add that to my mental to-do list. Also have another antenna en-route to check out...giving one of the "phantom" antennas a try.
had some time to kill, so i went hunting for my dummy load (shack is mid-rearrange), and did some testing. AFAIK, the one in the car is the older one, but I'm not 100% sure on that. both were tested with the same pigtail between radio and meter, same Surecom SW102, and same 50ohm 60 watt rated dummy load, pretty much back to back with the dummy load not even getting perceptibly warm.
Truck / Car
- 467.675 - 15.9w / 14.1w
- 467.725 - 16.0w / 14.2w
- 446.000 - 16.8w / 14.6w
- 146.520 - 19.1w / 17.7w
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22 hours ago, Sshannon said:
I'll recheck the same radio on GMRS but with a different antenna to see how it does. I'll also check my other DB20G radio to see how much they differ. That'll have to wait for a dry day though.
I'll try to remember to get some numbers from mine too...add that to my mental to-do list. Also have another antenna en-route to check out...giving one of the "phantom" antennas a try.
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1 hour ago, WRXE944 said:
It seems to me that your hypothetical is not FRS.
No FRS radio that I have ever purchased would bleed into the repeater inputs.
If they're working correctly, no, FRS radios shouldn't.
But since the subject has kind of bounced back and forth between the radios and the users, our hypothetical Joe Schmoe fall into the latter categoy (even if he isn't in compliance), no?
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27 minutes ago, Sshannon said:
How do they cause problems for repeater owners? FRS radios are blocked from transmitting on the 467 main channels that are the repeater inputs.
Legit radios, yes.
Joe schmoe that bought a baofeng from Amazon and programmed the FRS frequencies, and transmitting on the 467 interstitials, without realizing they needed to set it to narrowband (so instead it's bleeding into the repeater inputs on either side) could definitely be an issue.
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4 hours ago, UncleYoda said:
I was just reading critical reviews of DB20-G on Amazon and one of the biggest issues seems to be durability. It quits working properly after a while? Is that really a big issue with these? Other than that it seems like a better option that the others in the same price range.
What consitutes "a while"? I had to check my Amazon orders for dates on my two anytones... one was late February 2022, the other was mid March 2022. The February one has been in the old car unlocked for ham use the whole time, and seems to be going strong...it's on almost every time I drive the car , and often rag chew on mid power for the 30 mins drive to and from work. The one in the truck replaced a mxt115 and gets less use, but the occasional use it gets is usually on high power (nearest active repeaters are ~60 miles out)...going strong there as well.
That said, it's not out of the realm of possibility that I got lucky, and later examples went downhill, or just some bad quality control let some with issues slip through. QC is one corner that often gets cut to meet a low price point. I'd also wonder about the usage on the ones that died...I'm not the most long winded on air
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2 hours ago, wayoverthere said:
I'll try to grab some screenshots a bit later this evening that may help visualize.
So here is the box-stock image for a VX-4200 mobile...one channel, everything else greyed out. However, each of those greyed out channels, I can double click to activate it. It starts out with just one group.
if I click the channel menu, the only option I get is "Channel Allocation/Group Tag", which gives me this window. It's set for 16 channels in Group 01 (which I can rename) and that it's will scan this group. As above, I might have "GMRS Smplx" as my first group, "GMRS-Rept" as the second, allot 16 channels to that, set it to also scan there, and click OK. I can have up to 16 channels per group.
Once Group 02 has some channels also, that "Group 1" dropdown near the top left will let me pick more than one group to edit. The main window is where you'll add our frequencies, channel names, and tones. Click the tone field for the channel you want to edit, and hit the space bar, it will cycle through CTCSS, DCS, and none. when you have the right type of tone, double click and it will bring up a window to select the actual tone frequency/number you want.
Hope this helps with a starting point, at least. I don't have the other packages in front of me at the moment, (CE151/CE142 for the EVX series handhelds), but i remember one more column to set channels as analog or digital, close to the left side.
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Do you mind posting some screenshots? Some others have covered more of the software packages than I have, but even the specific (trunking, maybe?) Talon package looked very similar across versions.
I want to say I had to go into the groups first, and assign them some channels...I did a "gmrs simplex" group with the gmrs interstitial channels (462.5625 etc, aka gmrs01-07) etc, at low power and the high power channels (462.550 - .725 or 15-22), and then a "gmrs repeaters" group with the offsets and a 141.3 tx tone, no Rx tone, along with the 3 specific repeaters in range.
I'll try to grab some screenshots a bit later this evening that may help visualize.
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On 4/28/2023 at 1:51 PM, marcspaz said:
Man... I don't know why everyone raves about Ghost antennas. This one has no range. Once I'm a few yards away from the other radio, I can't hear them and they can't hear me.
Weird part is, the cable is fine and the SWR is spot-on, 1:1. Picture for attention.
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But the real question is...will it help my uv5r not desense itself completely deaf?
didn't do too badly considering I hadnt studied for extra. I needed 37 to pass, I got 26.
NEW Android and iOS App Beta Release
in myGMRS.com
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Did some poking around the android version (pixel 7 pro), and everything seems to be working great.
The only minor nit i saw to pick is on the "About" page, it still shows the fee at $70.