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There are a few repeaters in my area that I have requested access. One of them I requested access twice in a year and a half (private repeater). The owner states that you have to give him certain information including a valid phone number so he can conduct a phone interview. Of course, I never heard from the owner. I don't care enough to look into it more. The rules for requesting access was a red flag but I tried anyway. On the other hand I have requested access on some other repeaters, not in my area, and received permission in a day or two. If there is an open repeater listed, with tones, that requires you to request access and I don't hear from the owner I will just use the repeater. If questioned by the owner I will then ask permission on the air. That has never happened. I don't understand why there are still owners that have repeaters listed as open, with the tones listed, yet they still want you to request access. I don't tend to play well with others and my use of radio is to make quick contact with people I know for a specific purpose. If repeater owners go the route of drama I don't get mad, I just erase the info from my radio and move on. It is their machine so they can have their rules. On the HAM side, if some moron wants to critique my radio usage I just finish my transmission and ignore them. I don't use radio, Amateur or GMRS, for meeting random basement dwellers in the darkest hours of the night so I don't really run into those type of repeater people very often. Don't take it too seriously.

I voted "Carrot".

Can you set the code to OFF on the FRS radio? If all radios have no codes (ctcss or DCS) then they should all communicate if they are on the same channel/frequency. You need some distance between the radios when testing.

Especially if you get your radio from the Mossad...

I purchased a UV9G for a neighbor's birthday. We used our radios when we lose power. He is happy with it. We have used the radio in the snow and rain and it has held up well. Another friend just bought two of them to use for his family. He is happy with them. I think they are good radios for the price. I don't personally own one. I have several Wouxuns.

There is probably a missing sock somewhere full of missing o-rings.

I use one very similar to the Boafeng antenna you linked. I use it on one of my GMRS radios for on-site communications at our church where various FRS radios are used. Distance isn't an issue as we are never more than 300 yards apart. It works well in the buildings as well as outside. I haven't tried it outside of that application.

Not on GMRS, As Mr. Shannon replied, once every 15 minutes and at the end of your transmission. I don't think I have ever talked for 15 minutes on GMRS. After hitting "Enter" I saw that Mr. Shannon had already posted again.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the American forumites (and everyone else as well). I know I have a lot to be thankful for.

Everyone knows Progresso cans are higher gain give you more fars.

You would use the DPL in the Rx DCS.

Something everyone should consider: If the SHTF on a large scale, state wide or nation wide instance, NO ONE IS COMING. Expect to self rescue.

It is probably a linked repeater. If you don't hear from the owner you could try to figure out where the folks are that you hear checking in and see if you can find the repeater they are using. Or you could ask someone who is checking in what system they are on. They may or may not answer since linking is a touchy subject these days.

Yeah, I forgot to add that to the list of comments that didn't need to be made. My friend has moved on to a type accepted GMRS radio. Thanks.

For years I had no access to a swr meter and just trusted that what ever antenna, single band or multi band, would work for the bands for which they were advertised. Actually I didn't trust anything, I just didn't think about it. My amateur days were utilitarian at best. Wire up a radio, install an antenna that should be good enough and use the radio. Even so, I never had an issue with any radio I ran.