Raybestos

It is wonderful to see the concept of full quieting discussed on a GMRS forum. I do an eye roll every time I hear someone on a GMRS repeater tell someone else on the repeater that they are putting in a S-8 (or whatever) on the repeater. Ya big dummy! That is the signal the repeater is putting on your receiver. It has nothing to do with the power or signal from the radio of the guy you are talking with. The best measure of the other party's signal through the repeater is "heavy white noise and barely readable", "some white noise but readable", "full quieting into the repeater", or some variant thereof. Kudos for creating this topic!

Hi Uncle Yoda! The 550 is now showing as "Off-line". Not sure what happened to it. That other one you mentioned, everyone I know in the area has laughed about it for years. They have that silly disclaimer that it is "members only" or similar, but always say that they are not currently accepting new members because of concerns about overcrowding in an emergency. Seriously? I know people that monitor it regularly and never hear a peep on it, or maybe hear a brief test or kerchunk at times. Why they don't just say that it is a private clique and they don't want anyone else joining from outside, rather than playing word games, nobody I know has figured out. I think you called it with "...just camping out on the frequency." The one guy who located a repeater on top of their (mostly unused) channel would have probably been fine had he not chosen to pipe in garbage from all around the country via that network, artificially creating frequent traffic on his repeater and causing them to feel somehow "threatened".

If a group has endeavored to hog up all eight pairs in an area, if someone puts up an independent repeater and it happens to cause the greedy hogs interference, I look at that independent owner as performing a great public service.

Thank You!

Hey, since you are in the DC area, you might be the guy I have been wanting to run in to to ask something. Back in January of 2021, there were reports in alternative media about the military "jamming" CB, MURS, and GMRS in the DC area. The sources have a long history of fear porn and frequently there being nothing to many of their "pending doom" stories. Commenters on these sites were noting that possibly ham and even EMS were on the receiving end of such jamming. Again, I never saw any verification from radio-oriented sites or sources. I do not recall if this was around the time of Jan 6, or later, around the time of the Biden "inauguration". Do you know anything about this?

Were there New York State wildlife officers in your back yard, trying to murder it?

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When you finally come to the realization that the New World Order ensures that they own all candidates with even a remote chance of making it to the White House (always "R" or "D"), it becomes impossible to believe that we can vote our way out of this mess. State and local elections, depending on where you are, yes. I am becoming more and more convinced that all US House and Senate races are equally rigged.

I have had similar occasional issues with this model, the KG935G, KG935G+, and especially the KG905G. It is as though Wouxun has somehow baked an intermittent CTCSS glitch into many of their GMRS radios. I have thus far not been able to identify a specific channel or tone where the problem is more constant or pronounced on. All of these radios are now out of warranty, but do work as they should "most" of the time.

The PL is posted on the repeater's page on My GMRS, so no big deal. Also, it appears to be part of a linked system that is known for tying up multiple channels at a time with one conversation.

That's some crazy stuff! I am sorry for the loss of your old antenna. When your new antenna comes in, here is some music to assemble it by.

Box car is correct on all points. In addition to greater power and altitude, many repeaters use land mobile public safety/business grade gain antennas and low-loss feedline (hard line). All of this contributes to the extended range you enjoy on a repeater, versus ht to ht, ht to mobile, etc. This is why people who can afford it, spend the extra money on repeaters.

Uhhh....no..... I am not going to ask or demand that the FCC allow unnecessary clogging up of the eight few channels we have for repeater and 50W simplex use, thereby turning GMRS into something it was never even remotely intended to be.

There was the "pay to play" group. They rightly dropped their link. Then came Helene and they used the excuse of "disaster/emergency" to re-activate their toy. From monitoring them, the re-linking, as before, served no useful or legitimate purpose. It just ensured that multiple repeaters across a 75-100 mile stretch were clogged with conversations that sounded like 99% of the time, were taking place on one repeater. As before, one conversation on one repeater rendered multiple repeaters useless while it was in progress. As before, it was poor stewardship of available repeater and frequency resources. But hey, "we are in a disaster/ emergency". It also ensured that some clown playing with DTMF tones was "enjoyed" by all, as were occasional lengthy bursts of white noise in the system. They seem to have finally de-linked, at least until something else can be used as an excuse to re-activate their toy. Then, there is the more local bunch that was part of a network with a name that sounds like something to do with fuel effeciency. Looking on-line, that network appears to have all but fallen off of the map, yet listening to that system, it sounds apparent that it is still hooked into something and not a stand-alone.

Hi BradleyRN! Sounds like you figured out the tone thing and its purpose pretty well on your own. Believe it or not, I have known hams, including one Extra Class, who did not understand the tone thing, even after being licensed for years. Congrats! WRXB215 brought up an interesting point and it is possible that I misunderstood part of your message. Did you send the $50 to MyGMRS or to the repeater owner? If MyGMRS, WRXB215 is correct. That is to the people who graciously maintain this site. The repeater owner will not be made aware of it. If to the repeater owner, then check your e-mail for a message from them, advising you of the PL Code. I apologize for any misunderstanding. Also, when you hear an active conversation on that frequency, try activating the "tone scan" feature on one of your radios while a conversation is in-progress. If you do not get an indication of which tone is in use after a while, try the DCS tone scan. If you get a hit, enter that tone in your transmit "encode" and try to communicate. Ask what you need to do to get permission to use the repeater. Good luck!