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Why does it matter. Are you paying electric bil, tower fees and such for them ? You ever think the owners just dont care about users or nets on them ? I have multiple repeaters in multiple states. Some are those "300'" tower you speak of. They are my repeaters and I pay for maintenance and upkeep. they are there for me, my family and a few freinds. I can say 100% if you drive by some of them they are dead all week long as no one is there. Weeks are different. No way I'd want to put farmers or any of that on my stuff. Thats what LMR Part 90 is for. Additionally there is absolutely no requirement to have a repeater on the air. 95% of my traffic is simplex. repeater is there when needed. So its used.

In the 20+ years I've been using the FCC site it rutinely has issues. This is nothing new and normally the next day things are fine as it is right now.

Interesting. Ive never seen anoy one bash antenna farm on RR. As a matter of fact they are recommended quite often. They did some changes last year but still one of the best places for hobby folks to get stuff. I use Talley and Tessco for work stuff but get alot of non work items from Antenna Farm.

I run the same setup on my Gladiator (Soft Top) but with a commercial UHF LMR antenna. Works excellent for its use case (GMRS Simplex and TLMR). On my one JK I also run the same on my Midland GMRS Radio. I can't run either with my hardtop but the JK has no top.

So in a nutshell you want to charge users for a service that some use already with zello. I guess I dont see the need to add LTE to a repeater that is for local use. If I wanted extended coverage I'd either install a second repeater or go to a service I can do other stuff. I have SAR stuff linked to Zello and it works for what it is. I clearly do not understand the facination of making GMRS into ham radio or commercial LMR all the time.

Did you set the proper tone when you changed to RP20 ? Also are you sure they want to talk to you ? Contrary to popular belief alot of folks use GMRS for talking to friends. Not others.

Best way is not to. Drill a hole.

You should be able to go to mygmrs.com and register to login. Forum and main site are different logins so you need credentials in both.

Crazy winter but the wx is getting better. Was in Uhwarrie on some private land a few weeks ago and it was great to get the jeep out again. This weekend put the new radio in the wifes new JK. We ended up grabbing a second one as she wanted the "jeep" version of the 275. Happy Wife Happy Life. So I now have a spare. I did get the FTM400 mounted. HEado n molle panel and deck on side wall. I actually made a bracket out of 1" aluminum that uses the hard top bolt holes to hang it behind the roll bar. I have the other JK mounted behind the console and she doens't like it blocking cup hholders. This jeep will stay with rear seat so makes sense. Waiting on some parts for the front end now. Noticed we would align front end and it would bounce around too much. Digging yesterday found upper balljoints shot so next weekends work is ball joints and tie rods.

Interesting...just installed one in the wifes JK this weekend (newest jeep in the family) and she even managed to turn it on and get it on he right channel to talk. Amazing I guess being they are junk and all that.... SMH... Oh and she even figured out how to change the speaker from the deck to the control head. Guess I got a keeper here.

Most likely becasue none of them monitor the emails on file or they didn't list the repeaters.

Day the truck got dropped off at my house it had 5 holes in it....

Well, If you knew anything about Midland you would know they have been in the radio business for 50 years. For decades they were a go to LMR radio for law enforcement, wildland and DNR applications. I still know agencies with Midland LMR gear in use. They also have had GMRS radios long before anyone you list on this site. My first Midland was a xstal radio and we had to wait over 2 months for the channel we got licensed to arrive. They were also the first FRS radio to the market when the FCC approved them. Yes part is marketing and they are the ONLY vendor I have ever seen at an offroad show or any event in that industry. Handheld CH. KISS. My parents are in their 70's. They want to pick up a MIC with no buttons and talk. The midland mobiles do that fine for them. For my Jeeps I have the MTX-275 (actually had another arrive yesterday..and wife wanted the Jeep one so it was $10 more than the standard). The HHCH is perfect for a vehicle such as the Jeep. We use one repeater that is mine so dont care about having 50 repeaters in the radio. The wife can jump in and it turns on and if someone say go to ch 4 she turns to CH4. Lastly 90% of the folks we wheel with run Midland as does JJUSA. For that fact its the same and anyone can jump in my rig or hers and know how to use the raidos. What many forgot on this site is we are a very very small user group that gets on a forum. Tons of folks out there use GMRS and have no interest in forums, repeaters, or being ham lite. They just use radios. I have farms all around me that use Midland gear and every tractor, combine, truck has one in it. If I want to play ham radio or outher service I just switch over the my APX8500.

My reasoning is why is it needed ? Public Safety Radios systems dont use roger beeps and have worked just fine for years. Ive never once seen the reason for it in any of my communications. My repeaters are used all the time and users know how to operate on them. I guess its just how you use a radio or have used one. Ive never had a FF or SAR unit walk up to me and say "hey I need it to beep so I know folks are done". You will also not hear it on most commercial LMR systems. Highway departments, water departments, tow trucks, parks and rec departments all know how to use a radio. As said its all up to the individual, but I dont allow it on my repeaters and dont plan to change that.

I dont use it in GMRS, HAM Radio, CB or LMR.