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On 3/18/2024 at 1:41 AM, Raptor1 said:
Thank you.
I've contacted ICOM support with the same question, it will be interesting to see their response. That's if I get one.I am pretty confident the responce if you get one will be a copy of the user manual. As said its a HAM radio and not GMRS. To be quite honest this is what I use split tones (DPL and CTCSS) to keep all the ham and CCR crap off my repeaters.
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^^^^^ What he said. Not all repeaters have any voice announce or anything other than a hang time if any. I specifically shut my hang times off to eliminate the "kerchunking" of my repeaters. If you are asking for a radio check and its an open repeater and others utilize it that way then maybe you'll get a response. Unless its one of my family or friends I don't answer any radio checks or calls to chat. I have social media and a cell phone for that.
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33 minutes ago, WRXP381 said:
Every radio is ALWAYS set to a default level. Ever single one. Might be zero might be 10. It’s a matter of it that squelch setting is right for you. If you have never messed with it you may be getting too much junk or you may be missing out on transmissions you may need or want to hear. This is the difference in a gmrs user that just buys an over priced midland and tosses it in the jeep or a gmrs user that wants or need the most out of their radio. Me I use my $100 20w base station for 200miles transmissions every day and my mobiles to talk 50-60 miles. I need those comms since cell is spotty at best where I’m at. Others like your self just talk on the trail a few 100yards at most and don’t care.
Apparently you dont read the forums. I know very well what SQL is used for and I have been doing GMRS for over 30 years. I use it for more than just trail riding and have for years. I run the midlandso n the trail. I have a $15,000 APX 8500 HP that I use for work and it doesn't have a SQL setting that needs touched either. Yes there are times it needs adjusted but in 99% of daily life no one needs an adjustment anymore. This isn't CB days or early HAM days of noise all over. But sorry your a resident radio expert on the web so apparently all my certifications and work experiance is useless.
Sadly all you keyboard warriers with $100 CCRs that talk hundreds of miles seem to be smarter than all the manufacturers. Think of all the money your county, state and towns could save buy CCR instead of quality radios and they can talk a hundred miles.... smh...
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My point was default out of the box it doesn't need set. Its already set to a level.
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Or not worry about it. I have the 275. Ive never needed to nor worried about squelch. I installed it, turned it on and talk to other jeeps. Simple.
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2 hours ago, WSAA635 said:
Because I like to add VHF/MURS channels as a back up for the GMRS channels. The Yaesu FT-65r seems like it'd work but $95 for a SOC radio seems pricy. Wouxun KG-905g would be nice if it was CHIRP supported but it's not.
I may just drop back and punt and get another A36 Plus and be done with it for a while.
The radio is not certified for other than ham. MURS and GMRS are not Ham.
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Its a ham radio. If you want GMRS buy a GMRS radio.
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Still debating on what to do with the 2 mics but got my heads mounted in my 2024 Nissan Frontier. Just enough room for dual E5 heads.
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Why would it matter if there was a list posted ? Majority of the topics on this forum are about uncertified radios over and over and how to modify, program or use said radios. @OffRoaderX is spot on. If it says GMRS its probably certified....not always but mostly.
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As I've said multiple times I've had GMRS since I was a kid. Dad had a license and we rented a "PL" on a repeater originally. Later on he found a good used repeater and we had it on a telephone pole in town. Years later we ended up at a small tower on a hill. It was always used for "dad" on the way home and "Mom" saying she needs bread or milk from the store. No one else was on the channel. Once in a great while we would travel caravan style and use radio to radio. In those days portable radios were expensive and didn't work well. I dont think we ever had a portable until I got into it in the mid 90's. Even then it was a midland 2 channel xstal radio. During this time we never even thought about talking around the state let alone the country. It was used for utility purposes. We still use GMRS in that way for family use. I also use it now for off roading with JeepJamborree but that's all simplex. No need to talk 200 miles away.
I still firmly believe the linking is pushed by unhappy hams. Same with nets and all that. While many think I hate hams I've been one for over 30 years. I use HAM radio for APRS, SAR and other uses. Again each service or technology is used for a need. No different than Cell Phone Apps. we use Zello to Patch SAR channels for situational awareness, Internet for console sites and plain old simplex to talk to teams in the woods.
I hope the FCC clarifies further myself and will slow or put an end to linking for those that want repeaters for local use. Also I run 8 repeaters. None are linked, nor can be used in the same area. No need.
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So someone else asked a similar but more specific question to the FCC and the responce was much different....Itsn ot my post but can be seen here -
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Thanks @Sshannon I missed that in the firt post. So I guess my original statement stands. An antenna 10' off the gorund with a 5 watt UHF repeater into 50' of LMRish cable and an antenna isn't going to cover too far. I think many have this misconception that they can buy stuff throw it up and talk 50 miles casue other talk about that on the forum. Throwing an Midland/RT97 on a silo thats 150' in the air and field all around will cover better than the earlier one. I posted once previously about my Motorhome experiences. With 15' of cable and a good Laird antenna I got difference coverage depending on where I parked.
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I dont see where you specified cable for the antenna eiither. For the RT shortest antenna cable the better. Better antenna and height. How heigh is the antenna now ? It needs to be up in the air.
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Anyone have any trouble with using 2 KG1000G GMRS as repeaters? Can get mine to work
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For the proce you paid for 2 radios you could buy a good used LMR repeater. I've not seen many folks on this site successfully impliment one and have good resoluts. Lots of choises out there if you look.