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Very true!  They also set up hospitals with radios and antennas, I saw 10 antennas on a hospital and wondered why it had all of those antennas.  I googled it and found out that Hams work with public health and safety to get them set up with coms on many bands in case of disasters.  I do not know how many people need to be licensed at the hospital, but I am sure that there is at least a few.
Hams are my hero, and soon I will be one of them LOL!!

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Seems to be some strong opinions on this subject, mostly folks that hate the feature. What are the pros and cons of using it? It's on just about every radio you see these days so I assume it's a feature that is needed. But I heard someone just a few days ago from an operator that simply asked for a radio check and he was berated for having it on.

In a number of posts on this forum I have mentioned my intent to side mount my amateur radio antenna on the same mast that I use for the GMRS antenna. I can now say that it is done and has been working for almost a week. As promised elsewhere, here are some pics.
 

 

 

 
The side mount bracket is home crafted and painted a color similar to the main fiberglass mast. The amateur antenna is currently about 6-1/2ft below the bottom of the GMRS antenna. There is about 21” between the amateur antenna and the nearest metal (the GMRS feed line).
 
I am using LMR400 feed-line for both antennas and have ferrite chokes installed over the coax. I have not yet detected any material interference or objectionable desense in the GMRS radio while transmitting on the amateur radio. I do however observe one bar on the GMRS radio’s meter flutter while transmitting at 50w UHF on the amateur radio, if the GMRS radio is receiving a usable low-level signal at the point I key up the amateur radio, just not enough to be of concern presently.
 
I will be operating both antennas at the lower height you see in the picture until I am ready to guy the mast at full height, which is about 16’ higher.
 
One of the inquires I received elsewhere is listed below along with my original response. Posted here to prevent derailing another thread.
 

 
I will be running 50w UHF and VHF, 50w GMRS.
 
I will let you know once it is operational. I may not have it installed for two weeks.
 
I do expect some desensitization of the listening receiver while I am transmitting on the other service, but nothing that I expect will affect my operations. I will have ferrite chokes on the GMRS feed-line to cut down on the noise and reduce ingress from the 2m/70cm since that line will be running parallel to the amateur antenna.
 
 
Michael
WRHS965
KE8PLM

At the risk of sounding arrogant.
I've said this before and will re post it again
 

I would not want that for the GMRS service. The truckers that use CB end up running illegal amps not all but you would be shocked by how many will openly admit it.  Quite a few users  splatter across adjacent channels, rendering them useless. Or they free band into Ham 10m bands, because of course no one is using them right?
Now imagine that mentality in the beloved GMRS service. Where the 1kwatt amp is splattering across all the frequencies. In the sake of getting more distance out of a service that was implemented as a hassle free close coms. The biggest problem would be the FRS/GMRS bands are in most places adjacent to  license business operations or EMS/Police/Public sector bands.
The service is awesome for short distance coms. The ability to walk into Target or Walmart and pickup a radio for a caravan without going through the installation of a mobile or any real training on radio operations is incredibly awesome.
As far as the FRS in the campground shops. Makes sense. Kids can play with it. Mommy and daddy can keep tabs on Billy without having to stare at him. You start to see GMRS mobile units in off road shops. Where the user normally doesn't want to fumble around with an HT while being tossed around in a truck. Been there done that, no thanks.

Thank you very much!  I will contact the repeater owner and see what he says.  He has no codes/tones listed.

If my memory serves me, you want REPT21 (as @WyoJoe said, it's probably programmed in channel 29) for that one.  Repeater output frequencies are the same as the simplex channels, with the input frequencies 5mHz higher, and the REPTXX channels in your radio should be pre-programmed to account for that.  REPT21 should receive on 462.700, and transmit on 467.700 (the repeater's input frequency).
on tones, i believe the menu item  you want will be called T-CTC (aka PL or CTCSS) or T-DCS (aka DPL or DCS),  depending which type the repeater is using.  if it's expressed in hz, it's CTCSS/PL; if it's a 3 digit number, or 3 digits followd by I or N, it's DCS/DPL.

You probably need to access the repeater from a different channel than Channel 14. Channel 14 is one of the interstitial channels and not a repeater channel. On most of the repeater capable radios I'm familiar with, the repeater channels are usually set up for channels 23-30, inclusive. I suspect you would want to use channel 29 (on my radios that is the default channel for a "700" repeater (467.700 input, 462.700 output), with the appropriate tones for the repeater programmed into that channel.
I have a UV-82 which is very similar to your V-1 radio. The CTCSS xmit tone can be changed using menu option 13 on my UV-82. It may be the same on your model, but I don't know for sure. You may need to enter a CTCSS tone on transmit to open the squelch on the repeater. The repeater information should provide the necessary tone frequency if you need one.