miko1428

And the wind is taken out of my sails.  :|
 
In the mean time, anyone got any ideas about how to get a radio to use a callsign as a Roger beep, using either fast Morse or ASCII?  Neither sounds particularly rough to listen to...

I've been learning about APRS and would love to have something like it widely used on GMRS/FRS.   It would make things a LOT easier with emergency community coordination that I try to work in.

So, how does the Garmin Rino work?  They claim to be able to send position data to everyone on the same channel as them.  Sounds a whole lot like APRS... Unless they invented their own propriety standard??

As a regular user of APRS on Ham band I have to chime in.
The point of limited channels is very valid. Where I live, apparently some people already using GMRS/FRS channel for data telemetry. It's only mildly annoying now, but should everyone start using APRS (or other data) it's going to be detrimental to voice operations.
APRS depends on a network of digipeaters, to be reliable and useful. I do not see it's to happen to GMRS ever in my lifetime.
The new reserved data channel for FRS/GMRS? Yes!!! Where do I sign up. It could be one of the low power 467.xxx MHz channels or it could be a whole new 12KHz channel dedicated by FCC. Fat chance...

I've looked into this in the past; I still believe it's technically legal on GMRS if you want to argue it. I took this up with the FCC and below is what I received back from them. I think there's grounds to argue against their response, but it settled the issue for me (for now) anyways. Justified or not, and while APRS as a protocol is allowed, their stance is that they don't want it unless limited to a certified low-power handheld radio with fixed antenna, which severely limits its application as it eliminates the ability to develop a solid digipeating/gateway infrastructure (which I had planned to start developing at the time on one of the 462 interstitial 'FRS' channels)
My original request to them:
 
Their response:
 

There are 128 memories. All memories are usable for storing transmit-receive capable settings. I currently have 93 programmed and I can affirm you can transmit on all of them.
 
Michael
WRHS965
KE8PLM
 
 
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Whats the chance we can get a chat room? Is that even a thing anymore? I like the idea of ad supported, and yes I would pay 5 bucks a month to not see them!
 
1. Expand our repeater linking project!

I don't believe the Midland radios can do split tones; split tones are typically hard-coded to a channel or a list of OSTs when programming the radio.
 
Great to see another GMRS licensee in Albuquerque! I'm on the Sandia 675 repeater quite a bit; there's usually somebody monitoring after 5PM weekdays. If you get on the air tonight, I'd be happy to chat.
 
Jim/WREC548

New guy here from Albuquerque, NM.  I just recently got my license and have been looking at the Map section on this site.  I have gotten access to the local repeaters in my area, which was fairly simple, but as I have looked at repeaters further away, i see some of them have a tone in and a tone out.  I understand how to get the Tone say 141.3 Hz to hit the repeaters in my area, but how to I do two seperate tones for a repeater.  I am currently running a Midland MXT275?  I understand that there are much better radios out there, but for now i am gonna use this radio, any help would be appreciated.
 
EXAMPLE: freq 462.625  Tone out: 100.0 Hz and Tone In: 114.8 Hz  GMRS Channel 18 and code would be 12 for 100.0 Hz