rdunajewski

@WSFE961 I fixed your forum account so it shows the premium user group. This sometimes happens if you create your forum account after you sign up for the membership, sometimes the group doesn't get applied properly (a bug in the forum software we use).

This is a warning to everyone in this thread that Rule #7 forbids the discussion of weapons including firearms on this forum. I just removed about 20 posts in violation of this rule. Beyond that, it was also completely off-topic for this post and GMRS in general.

We have limited stock of the new Retevis RT97L repeater available and ready to ship before the tariffs are in place. Like most things we sell, these will undoubtedly be bumped in price, so hurry up and get them before May! Purchase the Retevis RT97L Like the RT97S, these are waterproof (IP66 for this model), have an all-metal chassis, a built-in pre-tuned duplexer, and a DB9 accessory port. 16 channels are supported, in wideband or narrowband mode. CTCSS and DCS codes can be programmed with the included USB cable, but default to 136.5 Hz with the built-in channels. The antenna connector is a UHF (SO-239) connector. There is also a built-in heater to allow cold-weather operation, and it will reduce output power if it's starting to overheat, so it can stay running for longer. The transmitter duty cycle is 100%. RepeaterID will also support these with a model specifically for this repeater. The pinout is slightly different than the RT97S series, so the original RepeaterID is not fully compatible.

@Bobuff977 all fixed! @SteveShannon thanks for the heads up!

I synchronized your forum account with your myGMRS account, so now it shows you have the Premium Membership, and the ads should be gone.

Hello, We did have an issue with the FCC licenses not being updated due to bad data from the FCC. We have fixed the problem and processed all the available license updates. Your license should now be in our system. You can sign up here: https://mygmrs.com/register

Honestly where do I begin with this thread? Do I delete it all? Censor the language? Remove the inflammatory posts? Or do I leave it up because @SteveShannon and others have a therapeutic way of handling this argument and we are so close to getting 2 people to apologize and let things cool naturally. In that case, the lesson in putting aside our differences, on the Internet of all places, would be so much better than leaving the profanity and the references to disabled people. Hopefully you guys can pause, come to a gentlemanly agreement to disagree at the very least, and apologize. Right now that kind of resolution would do the country, and the world, a bunch of good right now. We need more of that before we descend into another civil war some day.

@WQGU515 and @EMGREY, your forum accounts should be all set now. I think some peoples' accounts fell out of sync due to some maintenance we were doing on the database the last few weeks.

The forums have been under a DOS attack for the past week, so that's why you're seeing errors pop up here and there. Overall, the mitigation has being going well so hopefully the disruptions have been kept to a minimum. We're still running with >99.9% uptime for the month. The forbidden errors are from security software I added to help mitigate the attack, but it looks like it's catching some legitimate traffic too. I adjusted the rules so it should be good for everyone now, but please let me know if you still run into forbidden errors.

Hi Josh, Please check the format of the callsign. It must be 4 letters and only 3 digits. You probably have an I not the number one.

Currently, only one account can be created per GMRS callsign as a security measure to prevent multiple random people from trying to register the same callsign. This works fine for families where one member is the coordinator of the communications, but I know it isn't ideal when multiple people have an interest in participating independently. I was thinking about changing the user accounts on this website to allow a single "main account" per callsign. The account holder can then create multiple subaccounts sharing the same callsign: this way, the account holder/licensee controls who may share their license regarding a myGMRS account and we prevent the issue of random people trying to claim a callsign over and over again. Imagine how many people would try to claim mine, for example. What does everyone think about that?

We update the database daily, but the FCC data we have access to is typically 1-2 days behind the FCC website, unfortunately.