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On 3/4/2023 at 7:49 PM, wayoverthere said:
If it's the metal box that's the decider, the mygmrs shop has the rt97s in the metal case, rather than the 97 in plastic.
That's correct, the RT97S is also a metal case. It looks like the Midland MXR10 is just a custom-molded case with their logo on it, but it's otherwise the same thing more or less.
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The GMRS-50X1 is being discontinued by BTECH in favor of the GMRS-50V2 which succeeds it. The new "V2" lineup of BTECH radios has additional features like the multiple repeater channel ability mentioned above that the original series lack.
We just sold out of our remaining GMRS-50X1 stock, so we will only carry the GMRS-50V2 from now on.
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8 hours ago, wayoverthere said:
Minor quibble, but is there a reason classifieds shows up twice in the sidebar?
Good catch, should be fixed now. You might need to refresh the page a few times if it doesn't immediately show properly.
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15 hours ago, WRKV653 said:
Thanks for the PDF, yes it is the courtesy tone and the repeater tail. When I let go of the PTT the repeater will drop out like normal, then the Pi keys up the repeater and the courtesy tone is heard, then after a 2-3 second repeater tail it all goes back to stand by.
I am trying to find a setting in the Pi that lets me adjust the repeater tail time.
Thanks
You should have the Raspberry Pi duplex mode set to simplex so it doesn't try to add hang time to the repeater. The setting is in /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf. Our prebuilt image for the RT97S has this setting applied as well as the audio levels preset.
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Hi Royce,
I appreciate the offer! I think I have everything well under control but it does soak up a lot of my free time. My day job is substantially similar in many ways so burn out is a real thing.
Your support as a premium member is greatly appreciated and that's the single best thing you and others can do, along with participating on the forums and making purchases on the online store. So thank you!
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I'm looking to do the same. I've amassed quite a collection of radios that are just collecting dust.
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I'm pleased to announce a new feature available on the forums: a new classifieds system!
Premium Members can post a listing for radios, repeaters, antennas, and more that they are selling or want to buy. All members can view and purchase items from the seller, a Premium Membership is only required to post advertisements.
Purchases are handled between the buyer and seller directly at this time, but we might expand this in the future to handle payments similar to how eBay and PayPal work. There are no commissions since we are not handling the payments on behalf of the parties.
If you are a Premium Member, you will see a blue "Submit an advert" button on the Classifieds page. Click on this button and select the category to list your ad under. Listings are active for 21 days for free (less the cost of membership) and can be renewed if the item is still available.
You also have the ability to set up shipping options for the buyer, and can paste the tracking number for the shipment once you've completed a sale.
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While the RT97 and the MXR10 are very different, I don't see any real difference between the RT97S and the MXR10 besides the custom case and button placement.
Both have the DB-9 port, both have a metal custom case, and both are preset for GMRS frequencies out of the box (and FCC certified for GMRS).
We worked with Retevis to add the DB9 port to allow hooking up an external controller, for linking or IDing purposes. I see that's in this model, and I wonder if they kept those features intact.
I'd be willing to bet it's the same guts as the RT97S, which are different from the original RT97. If you care to open it up, it's just 4 Allen screws that are retained by a spring to prevent them from falling out.
Retevis and Midland use the same manufacturer, but Retevis does not make these themselves. They are produced by another factory.
- SteveC7010, Sshannon, WRUU653 and 1 other
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Sorry for the late reply, but yes this issue was fixed earlier this week.
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30 minutes ago, travisledbetter said:
The source code is available on his site, why not fork the software and make your own version?
Edit: wait, this is for CHIRP-next. I haven't seen the source for that
It's available and the license he has is very open, it's GPL 3.0. But then keeping up to date with CHIRP's changes is a lot of work for little return.
It's a possibility, but it's also more work for me to keep up with on any regular basis. Volunteers always welcome!
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Just an update that Premium Members can now export a CSV file compatible with CHIRP from the myGMRS Reports page: https://mygmrs.com/reports
Note that there was a bug in CHIRP that prevented cross-tone DCS codes from importing properly, but this has been fixed with today's latest update of CHIRP-next.
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4 hours ago, MichaelLAX said:
How do I sign up to pay more for more ads?!?
Be careful what you wish for.
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Please see the above post we just shared regarding this topic.
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As some of you may know, we have been trying to get myGMRS integrated into CHIRP, a popular open-source radio programming software created by Dan Smith, for several years now. I finally heard back from Dan in December and shared our API (Application Programming Interface) resources to him and test credentials for the website.
Given that this was a new feature and a big convenience to users, we wanted to offer it as a perk to Premium Members of the website who support our efforts to be the go-to GMRS community. Dan expressed concerns about having any paid services such as RadioReference.com in his application, because developers would be unable to test unless they had a membership at the website. We agreed to table the discussion until we had a solution for developers to test the myGMRS integration, and he implemented the new feature into CHIRP-next, the next generation of the CHIRP application. Dan released a version of CHIRP-next on December 24th with myGMRS integrated into it.
Yesterday, I sent Dan an email letting him know what changes to expect to the API once I require accounts to have a Premium Membership to download repeaters through CHIRP, so he had time to make the required changes to show the appropriate error message rather than a cryptic "Got error code 403 from server" message.
Long story short and omitting the gory details, Dan decided it was best to completely remove the myGMRS integration that he had finally added, rather than work with us on how to reach an amicable agreement that makes everyone happy. We offered several solutions to provide developers with Premium Membership so they could test the feature, eliminating the concern from Dan. We are surprised by this but respect his wishes, even though it hurts the GMRS community which utilizes his product for GMRS and/or Amateur Radio.
Understandably, I know many people will wonder why this wasn't just a free feature and that be the end of it. However, myGMRS is a small business and it needs to be profitable to survive. myGMRS is a one-person operation (not withstanding all the amazing members who contribute the repeater listings and forum posts) and it takes considerable resources to just to keep the lights on with there being so many users. Since the founding of RepeaterFinder, LLC, the corporate entity behind myGMRS, I have not taken a salary.
We intentionally minimize the number of advertisements we show because we hate ads too, but they alone don't cover the cost of running the website for nearly 50,000 users. Very few members have been kind enough to support us by subscribing to a Premium membership, so we're always looking for new perks to add for Premium Members to draw more people to sign up. To those who do support us, I sincerely thank you!
If you'd like to utilize the myGMRS lookup feature and are a Premium Member, you can download the last working version of CHIRP-next from 01/09/2023 here:
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_next/next-20230109/
If you receive "Got error code 403 from server" when trying to authenticate to myGMRS, it means you do not have an active subscription and you can subscribe by going here: https://mygmrs.com/profile/subscriptions
You can see the commit notes from Dan regarding the removal here:
Here's the original ticket tracking the feature request:
https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9169
Thank you for understanding!
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That would be great if their API didn't take multiple seconds to return a response. The local database option is the best option currently.
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There seems to be a lot of licenses held up by the FCC. They did have an outage recently but we probably won't see the new licenses until after the Sunday full database gets released. The daily files are missing some records but the weekly file resyncs the whole database.
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https://community.allstarlink.org/t/allmon2-monitor-vs-local-monitor/13074
Monitor causes other nodes that you are linked to to also hear the received traffic, but Local Monitor only lets your node hear the received traffic.
Some Unfortunate News RE: CHIRP Integration
in myGMRS.com
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Awesome, Brian! I was going to do the same thing but didn't want to worry about keeping in sync with the upstream changes. If we have an automated process we can keep the fork up to date.
Great work! Looking forward to an update!