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  1. GMRS is not a hobby. It IS, for me, a tool to assist my actual hobbies. Having said that: This, and several other, forums have taken on the attributes of a hobby. The amount of knowledge and experience shared here is amazing. My hobby has become spending a hour or so every day reading these posts.
  2. I use GMRS/FRS mostly to communicate with people in my groups. Jeep, hunting and golf carts around the lake I live on. A mix of GMRS and FRS in most of those groups. I think the best day on GMRS/FRS is being able to communicate with those people that I want to communicate with and NOT hearing anything else. Having said that it could be nice to have a channel to "call" (like Star Trek's hailing channel) but I would hate for something like that to become CB 19. I hear hams using what they list as "call" channels, but even they just use them as conversation, rag-chew etc so I would never monitor anything like that.
  3. OR--anyone upset by family or other "unimportant" radio traffic can find a radio service that only licenses mature acting, grown ups. We have 30 small, insignificant frequencies in the vast radio spectrum, maybe there are other frequencies that more meet your needs. We should accept the rules of the radio service we are using.
  4. The license gets you more allowable TX power, being able to improve antennas and use repeaters. It is ironic that people that come to GMRS/FRS are surprised to find it used by families. The "F" in FRS actually means "FAMILY" and FCC rules for GMRS/FRS encourages family use. It even makes YOUR license cover almost all of YOUR family.
  5. kirk5056

    CQ on GMRS

    I have said this before in this forum....if you are scanning with no PL filter (CTCSS/DCS) because you want to hear every thing then don't be upset when you DO hear everything.
  6. The absolute best GMRS channel is the one that you and the people you want to communicate with decide to use. If your goal is to find new friends then I suggest CB or Ham. Or as a certain Youtube hobo says: try one of the Inter web dating sites, Enjoy, there is no better communication platform than GMRS.,
  7. OK, I am open to learn new things. If I say I want to talk to you on "channel" 19, is there a way to communicate if, or if not, there is a PL filter involved? If we agree on a "channel" AND a PL filter what would that be called? And if we use that same combination over a period of time do we have to continue to say "channel 19 with code 141.3" or could we just say meet me on the "trail" channel?
  8. "You only have 22 channels. Using CTCSS/DCS you just have more choices on blocking what you don't want to hear on those 22 channels." You only have 22 FREQUENECIES! I think a "channel" is what I use to communicate, if you cant contact me because your PL filter does not match mine THEN we are on different channels!! I guess you can define "channel" any way you want but it seems to me that "frequency" better defines what you mean.
  9. Ham type "rag chewing" drives me crazy. If that is what meant by "hobbyist" then I try to avoid it. I have found the best way to defeat these rag chewers is to change channels. Since I only use PL filtered channels for my communication needs I rarely hear them. The only time I DO hear them is when I scan unfiltered frequencies. Or when they are very close or very powerful so they bleed over on my channels. For this reason I mostly use channels 1-7 because I can avoid 50w mobile/bases and powerful repeaters. I have read that there are about 120 "standard" PL (CTCSS/DCS) filters. If that is true then we have over 2,500 possible channels (freq + PL) (120 x 22=2,640). I am in favor of these rag chewers because the more users we have the more options the manufactures will give us.
  10. Program your radio to best communicate with your group. I use the same channel (freq + PL filter) for many groups. My Jeep/hunting groups is mostly GMRS so I use FM. The golf cart group around my cottage is mostly FRS so I use NFM. Both channels work with both groups BUT there can be less than perfect performance if the modulation does not match so I just avoid it by having the two channels programed in MY radio.
  11. Realistically, Ham or CB are better choices for "Just looking for communication with someone" that you do not already know. GMRS excels at communication within groups that need radios to meet their current need.
  12. "masking" clutter is all I need. If the un-masked clutter chases me off the channel then there is a 100% chance I will never hear the call.
  13. I think having a non-cluttered distress channel is even more important for NON-radio geeks. IMHO most people dont want to listen to constant clutter, rag-chew, etc. Without listeners any distress channel is worthless.
  14. I like it idea of using PL filters on distress channels. The reason is, if I want to monitor only distress calls then I will monitor a filtered channel. If the channel I am listening to becomes too jammed with non-distress chatter I may well stop monitoring that channel. Remember CB 19 got so cluttered that many people do not listen anymore.
  15. To me, the best day on GMRS is communicating with people I want to communicate with and not hearing anything I don't want to hear. Therefore, I love PL filters (CTCSS/DCS) and the 3,000+ combinations they give to our 22 rx frequencies.
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