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What I don't understand is it NOT supporting the CM108 sound card interface that ASL and all the other repeater linking software supports. Simple modification that is WELL documented and easy to build it you can solder. And available as a turn key interface for reasonable money if you don't. That interface is used for AllStarLink, the numerous GMRS repeater linking systems that are still around, as well as a number of data modes for ham radio. Seems someone coded it before investigating what was common in the field. But, the ASL image, or one of the GMRS linking images including the one that was used for the mygmrs network will do the same thing (control a repeater) with announcements and all the rest if you spend the time to configure it. And the ASL image is VERY easy to navigate and configure due to it's web interface. And all that runs on a Raspberry Pi. SO I don't need to assign a full desktop PC to the task of acting as a repeater controller. And if you REALLY do want to use a full desktop PC, you load the PC with one of several different versions of Linux and then load the software on top that and it does the same thing.

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I got into digital camera's and taking more photographs due to it being digital. While no one seems to talk about it. The main reason to go digital is the lack of requirement for film. You have a more or less one time expense of a memory card that will allow you to take and store how many photos? Film was 12 / 24/ 36 if I remember right. And film couldn't be reused. Once it was used, you bought another roll. And that was something you had to take into consideration when taking photographs. A roll of film had X number of total photographs you could take. Yes, a memory card is limited too, at least to some degree. But even shooting really high resolution. a RAW photo is how big, and how many can you fit on a x sized memory card? So blasting away with the shutter on a DSLR is WAY cheaper than with anything requiring film. And yes, you can take video with them too.

Yeah, but the rest of us benefit from that since those leases will be called back / repossessed. Leading to a number of nice used vehicles that we can afford since there will be a glut of them entering the used car market, driving the price down.

This nonsense kills me. Don't get me wrong, I run Linux too. For a number of things. And it does SOME of those things better than anything offered by Microsoft, and for very little if ANY out of pocket cost. But there is a cost to Linux, or any other operating system that isn't Windows. The cost is in time. Your personal time to figure out work a rounds to run software written to run on the operating system that is DOMINANT out there in the world. Hurray for you, running Linux, of any flavor as your primary desktop operating system. But like anything else you can take things too far. Computers are a TOOL. Like a radio, or a hammer. But the OS gives you a range of sizes of hammers and other tools. You gonna drive a 14 inch barn spike with a tack hammer? NO. You gonna drive a wooden dowel into a nearly finished Cherry wood tabletop to cover a screw hole with a 12 pound sledge hammer? Probably not. But what YOU are doing is trying to tighten a Phillips screw with a Multitool, then use it as a hammer, then a saw, then a 3/4 open end wrench. All with a pocket multi-tool. You have convinced yourself that the EVIL Greedy deplorable Microsoft empire is the Borg. They will assimilate everyone and turn them into their minions, Dragging them to slaughter like sheep. Oh, the Huge Manatee!!!! You cry about the EULA... you ever read the US tax code. That crap will have you considering moving to Canada, until you figure out theirs is worse. So how long did it take you to figure out what you needed to do with WINE to make that work? And then what amount of time did it take for you to actually do that with each instance of CPS software you loaded up so those instances would work? Hours? In an hour or two I can have a PC loaded, all the standard programming CPS software I use ( I work for a Motorola radio shop, so I have to basically load all of it) have Office up and going and the machine is ready to be out in the world being productive. If I need a new version of something, I download it and install it, no special configurations, no creating special anything, it just works. But I am glad you have all this free time to screw around with something while it might be superior in certain aspects, is still a time robbing headache to use for many things that I would need to use a computer for in the course of the day.

Can you explain what mirrorless is? I have a D3100 and D3200 (I think). Both are Nikon. The one does bluetooth and all that and automagically copies the photos to the laptop as soon as it's in range. I don't actually know what the resolution is on either camera. But when I save them as RAW format, the files are huge. Oh, and the funny part is that I bought BOTH of them at Hamvention, a couple years apart.

Yeah, that's very true. Anyone bother to look if the Social Security Admin web site is working so you can see what your monthly payments will be when you retire? Guessing that is down too. They have shuttered the National Parks and several other things. Of course now the argument is they will not get their back pay when they return to work. It's all a dog an pony show with a side game of one upsmanship played in the same arena and the same time. And Shumer, Trump and a few others take turns playing PT Barnum.

Because "I" am in charge of it and that A -HOLE Trump shut down the government I refuse to leave it up and running because Trump sucks, Republicans suck, and GMRS sucks unless used by a liberal. I don't KNOW that's it, but it's a good a guess as anything else. It might be hosted 3rd party and the hosting company isn't sure if they will get paid, so they shut it off. It's the FCC database... not nuclear launch codes.

Repeater controllers can be programmed to function differently based on the tone they receive. Now this takes some additional wiring, configuration and planning with regards to getting the repeater setup. What this MIGHT mean is the repeater is somehow linked to other repeaters. And one of those tones will allow access to those other repeaters. A second tone might be unlinked. Meaning it's just working on the local repeater and not the other repeaters linked to it. The 141.3 'traveler tone' is probably supported for that very reason. At some point in history, the 141.3 tone was adopted / mandated / settled on as a universal repeater tone that anyone could use to access any public repeater on the air. Using that tone could make the repeater ID change to something welcoming travelers, or just give them access. The other function that multiple tones can do is change the output tone generated by the repeater. So if someone was coming through, the 141.3 tone would be present when the traveler was talking and the local tone would no be in play so the locals would NOT hear the traffic as it passed through. The fact that the local tone is DPL and not PL, those two tones can exist on the same carrier however allowing the person passing through to communicate with the locals using the traveler tone but they would be hearing the DPL to open their squelch. And travelers typically would NOT have access to the wide area linked repeater system and instead JUST the local repeater. All of this of course is done by the repeater owner to suit his requirements. Repeaters can be simple. Order a box with a repeater, antenna, feed line and be preprogrammed. Put up said antenna, connect the repeater to it and plug it in. Then there are fairly complex systems that have repeater controllers, possibly remote receive sites to extend coverage, and multiple functions.

Reality for "EMCOMM" is have everything. At least if you are looking for emcomm abilities with others as well as your specific group. That means CB, MURS, HAM, GMRS and scanners for Public Safety and other government communications. Now if this is not really emcomm and instead just looking to communicate with your family during a situation that other means of communications has failed, that takes an approach like what you are seeing here. Back to what I have said before on here. Radio is first and foremost a tool. Consider drilling a hole. If you have a 3/8 drill and a 1/2 paddle bit, you can drill a 1/2 hole in wood. BUT, if you are like me, you have several 3/8, and 1/2 drills. Some are corded, some are battery. I have drill bits that range from wire gauge sizes to the biggest being 2 inch. Then I have hole saws that are up to 5 inch for wood and metal. Then I get into the SDS drills for concrete. smallest SDS bit is 1/8, up to 1 inch for concrete. After that, I have a coring drill that will spin up to a 12 inch coring bit for concrete. Then I have magnetic drill presses that attach themselves to metal plates and can cut with the drill bits and metal hole saws into metal. Point is that if I need a hole in something, I can make it. You are limited to drilling a 1/2 hole in wood with what you have. Right tool for the job. Do you need every tool, every time, no. And you can gather tools (radios) over time expanding your ability to listen and communicate. Hardly anyone starts with nothing and immediately has everything, it's too expensive for many to go buy it all at once. And putting all your eggs in one basket (all your radios services in one multiband radio) isn't a good plan either unless you have backups. Because a single radio failure shouldn't completely remove your ability to communicate.

Here's the whole truth about radios. They are going to work where they work... it might NOT be everywhere you trek, but it could be, there are too many variables to sit here and give a 100% definitive answer. But what radio brings to the table that cell phones and other means of communication doesn't is simplicity. You don't dial it, you don't have voice mail, it's basic. And you and your wife are NOT always going to be the only ones on the radio. So if there is an issue, someone else that might be able to assist in a situation may or may not be right there at the other end of the radio. Not having a radio means that you have no coverage from the radio 100% of the time. Because you just don't have it. But radios are a tool. Like any other tool, they are going to have use in certain situations and not so much in others. Radio, GMRS or otherwise, is never going to be a 100% all the time from anywhere and everywhere means of communications. And while the commercials for rapid radio and other similar systems SOUND like they will work everywhere all the time. Those are cellular system based. If your phone coverage sucks, chances are the coverage will be poor or non-existent for those radios as well.