[Alaska GMRS Users or Networks]

On 12/28/2021 at 7:33 PM, AKDrifter said:

Hi guys thought I'd say hi to the fellow Alaska GMRS guys. Just started in the GMRS world for communication in the local Anchorage area though I'm from Eagle River. My brother in law wanted to sell me on getting a HAM license but figured I'd start with GMRS in my Jeep. So hoping to hop on the E.R. repeater and hopefully hearing some traffic. Channel 20 has had some traffic, but otherwise its been pretty quiet.  Hope to hear from you guys and thank you WRFP for setting up repeaters that's super cool and handy.

Nice! Ive been hoping for more gmrs people up here, it's practically radio silence on the peninsula except for spernard builders supply or the odd snowmachiners with a rugged radio. So where are you on the 19 or 20 travel channel debate?

[Struck tractor... way off topic]

Anybody have on of these? I'm taming a small amount of land in alaska and I have it pretty well beat it down, but now I need a yard/garden tractor and I just can't stop checking these toy dozers out. Also I think the diy dozer might make good content for my new youtube channel.

[Official/Unofficial GMRS Road/Travel Channel]

10 hours ago, Citizen said:

 

Additional useless notes:  Marine ch. 13 (156.65) is for ship bridge-to-bridge and ch. 9 (156.45) is the general boater calling frequency.  I also scan these, but have yet to hear anything.

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In alaska, fisherman and boaters hail and monitor on 16 and just keep it short. 13 and 9 are used mostly by harbor masters and are usually pretty quiet.  

[Official/Unofficial GMRS Road/Travel Channel]

Just now, MichaelLAX said:

Does that count as 2 votes for 19? 

Crap I thought I was #1 who beat me

[Official/Unofficial GMRS Road/Travel Channel]

As a commercial fisherman I have been monitoring 16 on marine vhf for 30years and like the idea of a gmrs channel to monitor for "hailing and distress " so 19 it is for me. WRFU 414 standing by on GMRS 19 in Alaska.  Although I'll still be scanning to.

[Un-official GMRS travel channel?]

The video talks about lineA but what about lineC? Must we in the frozen north continue the debate?

[GMR2 and GRMS]

I found if you put a rubber band around it to hold it tight to the radio,,,it works

[GMR2 and GRMS]

Mine doesn't work with my uv82hp it just says data failure all the time 

[Alaska GMRS Users or Networks]

Nice to see more Alaskan people here I'm down in the kenai area

[Well, this is exciting.]

So do we have any more reviews on the rt97 yet? I've been looking around at building a repeater but this is a pretty handy size

[how to set up a new repeater]

What's your terrain like? Have you scouted out a location ? Are you guys building or buying a repeater?

[Could I put a base antenna on my 4g cell booster mast?]

Thank you gentlemen, now I just need to pick a antenna. I didn't think it would cause a problem but I'm still a bit new to the gmrs thing so I figured it's best around first.

[Could I put a base antenna on my 4g cell booster mast?]

I have a 8' marine style made with a 4g cell booster on my cabin and I'm wondering if I can mount a gmrs base antenna up there also. Any thoughts?

[Anybody in Alaska around here?]

I see there is a repeater listed in anchorage but i haven't made it up there from kenai to see if it's still up and running yet.