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Your videos are why I'm here, man!  However, it took me like 30-40 hours of watching your videos to get comfy, and even then, I had to come here asking stupid questions for months.
I'm just looking to boil things down as an introduction, so newbs like I was two years ago have a smaller hill to climb.
Of course, any introduction would *have* to mention your exalted poobah-ness!

Please elaborate, and also include technical service bulletins, anecdotal historical documents, and any FCC regulations you think might be of use. 

Yeah, see, that's the opposite of what I envision.  That's the rabbit hole I fell into when I started out, and like I said, it seems far more likely to drive normal people away than to get them functional...

A new person getting started, like the kind targeted by the presentation I'm trying to prepare, and the one marcspaz admirably presented, doesn't need to read 150 pages on antenna theory.  With ham, you're building a car.  With GMRS, you just want to drive it.  You need to understand a bit of technical theory to understand *why* you are doing what you are doing, but you don't need to be able to calculate ideal compression ratios to push the accelerator...
 

Sorry, I don't agree. He simply made a joke about the thread title. His joke was funny, and not offensive. Your response however, was, in calling someone a DICK. I clicked on the thread expecting it to be about someone other people on the forum might know, perhaps asking if anyone had heard from Terry, or maybe if anyone thought a product or service someone named Terry offered was worthwhile, or maybe letting people know Terry had passed away. Nope, just a post asking a question about a radio. Good question, bad thread title, which I am sure was not intentional on your part. 
Thread titles are used so people know what the thread is about. Calling someone a DICK for making a joke about a thread title that doesn't come close to describing what the thread was about is an emotional knee-jerk reaction. Maybe take a second to breathe and rethink. ONce again, I believe your mis-named thread was not intentional, but it did nothing to tell anyone what your thread was about, hence the joke. 

Just vanity operators...

Does such a thing exist? 
It occurs to me that it took me several months to acquire the basic knowledge to operate on GMRS without constantly questioning myself and going back and watching dozens of youtube videos and coming here and asking endless "dumb" questions.  It wasn't very... accessible.  Coming originally from the depths of the 80's hacker community as I do, I just accepted this, and put in the work, but it occurs to me that most people coming to GMRS are probably fairly normal, and instead just give up.
I've been trying to set up a class for my local makerspace on GMRS operation, but it occurs that there really isn't *that* much to know, assuming you only shallowly care about the technical side.  Has anyone sat down and done an in-depth "Zero-To-GMRS Operator" document to get people up and running without all the gaps?

If not, does anyone want to write one?

Your videos are why I'm here, man!  However, it took me like 30-40 hours of watching your videos to get comfy, and even then, I had to come here asking stupid questions for months.
I'm just looking to boil things down as an introduction, so newbs like I was two years ago have a smaller hill to climb.
Of course, any introduction would *have* to mention your exalted poobah-ness!

Your videos are why I'm here, man!  However, it took me like 30-40 hours of watching your videos to get comfy, and even then, I had to come here asking stupid questions for months.
I'm just looking to boil things down as an introduction, so newbs like I was two years ago have a smaller hill to climb.
Of course, any introduction would *have* to mention your exalted poobah-ness!

I'm proud to say I actually owned one of those red Captain Crunch whistles, back in the day.  I'm more than a little sad to say my mother threw it out while I was at college because it was "just a cheap old toy"...
 

Books?  Like that you pay for?  For info that's theoretically on the internet?
How 20th century...
😆

I'm proud to say I actually owned one of those red Captain Crunch whistles, back in the day.  I'm more than a little sad to say my mother threw it out while I was at college because it was "just a cheap old toy"...
 

I'm proud to say I actually owned one of those red Captain Crunch whistles, back in the day.  I'm more than a little sad to say my mother threw it out while I was at college because it was "just a cheap old toy"...
 

@gortex2 For the most part I agree with you but new users are constantly asking questions beyond PTT but don't want HAM. I think a good GMRS Primer would be a good thing to have. TexasGMRS.net has some stuff but I haven't looked at it yet. Maybe it would fit the bill.

Books?  Like that you pay for?  For info that's theoretically on the internet?
How 20th century...
😆

Wow, so I finally broke down and added three specific individuals to my 'Ignore" list, and *man* is this a much more useful and enjoyable forum all of a sudden!

Wow, so I finally broke down and added three specific individuals to my 'Ignore" list, and *man* is this a much more useful and enjoyable forum all of a sudden!

Yeah, see, that's the opposite of what I envision.  That's the rabbit hole I fell into when I started out, and like I said, it seems far more likely to drive normal people away than to get them functional...

A new person getting started, like the kind targeted by the presentation I'm trying to prepare, and the one marcspaz admirably presented, doesn't need to read 150 pages on antenna theory.  With ham, you're building a car.  With GMRS, you just want to drive it.  You need to understand a bit of technical theory to understand *why* you are doing what you are doing, but you don't need to be able to calculate ideal compression ratios to push the accelerator...
 

Yeah, see, that's the opposite of what I envision.  That's the rabbit hole I fell into when I started out, and like I said, it seems far more likely to drive normal people away than to get them functional...

A new person getting started, like the kind targeted by the presentation I'm trying to prepare, and the one marcspaz admirably presented, doesn't need to read 150 pages on antenna theory.  With ham, you're building a car.  With GMRS, you just want to drive it.  You need to understand a bit of technical theory to understand *why* you are doing what you are doing, but you don't need to be able to calculate ideal compression ratios to push the accelerator...
 

Since CB died, it sure would be nice if there were a way while driving long distances to put out a call to random strangers to ask how the road is ahead, and warn people about speed traps!

Yeah, see, that's the opposite of what I envision.  That's the rabbit hole I fell into when I started out, and like I said, it seems far more likely to drive normal people away than to get them functional...

A new person getting started, like the kind targeted by the presentation I'm trying to prepare, and the one marcspaz admirably presented, doesn't need to read 150 pages on antenna theory.  With ham, you're building a car.  With GMRS, you just want to drive it.  You need to understand a bit of technical theory to understand *why* you are doing what you are doing, but you don't need to be able to calculate ideal compression ratios to push the accelerator...
 

Wow, so I finally broke down and added three specific individuals to my 'Ignore" list, and *man* is this a much more useful and enjoyable forum all of a sudden!

19 can't be used by the something like 20% of US citizens who live above Line A...

19 can't be used by the something like 20% of US citizens who live above Line A...

Wow, so I finally broke down and added three specific individuals to my 'Ignore" list, and *man* is this a much more useful and enjoyable forum all of a sudden!