SteveShannon

I’d be interested in seeing data supporting that claim.

There are no FRS exclusive channels that allow you to operate a GMRS radio without identifying. Every FRS channel is a GMRS channel. Technically, if you want to operate without identifying, you must use an FRS certified radio. Whenever you are using a GMRS radio you are required by regulations to follow the GMRS regulations, which require identifying.

Good job! Yes, water could get into the antenna and migrate down into the connection.

@Sonicgott, thanks for the well written and complete review. Also, if you’re new to the site, @Socalgmrs has a social problem that none of us understand. Apparently the only way he can feel self worth is to denigrate others and his most frequent targets are new members. The best way to deal with it is to simply place him on your ignore list until he bails out of this site like he did before. It should be a sticky somewhere for new members.

I was thinking of the kind of regularity that bran flakes help, but okay.

If he goes further in the list he should see D754I (yes, that’s an I) or you can change yours to D754, which is the same as D754n. N stands for Normal. I stands for Inverted. Or there’s a separate choice that asks Normal or Inverted. None of them provide privacy (security).

I don’t understand your question. Are you looking for irregular guys?

Most radios just give either a number, like D1051 which is the same as N, or the Inverse D1051I. You won’t see a D1051N.

That sounds good! Congratulations!

Well, they did change their website to address it….

You don’t have to enter the TX transmit frequency if you’re using a GMRS radio and you have selected one of the repeater channels (which you have!) but you do have to make sure that you have entered the proper CTCSS tone or DCS code that the repeater requires or the repeater wil, just ignore any signal it receives from you. No, kerchunking the repeater is not a very reliable way to confirm that you’re activating the repeater, especially if you’re relatively inexperienced. The best way is to push the PTT, say your call sign, and ask for a radio check.

Would you rather turn it on if it identified as Roger? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. We have a member whose bypass switch was stuck open on the external microphone jack on his handheld, disconnecting the internal microphone. He didn’t know that. We discovered the problem when he tried to check in on our Net. The call went out for check-ins and we heard a full quiet dead silence followed by a beep. Because he was the only one of us who used a Roger beep we had some idea who it might be so one of our senior members called out to him by name with some suggestions. It turned out that by plugging in the external mike we were able to hear his voice. A week or so later he brought his radio to my house and I soldered a bridge across the stuck-open switch. If it hadn’t been for the Roger beep we wouldn’t have known who it was. So maybe we out to require that each radio include a unique Roger or Susan beep. My Alinco (Anytone inside) has the ability to customize the Roger beep with up to four separate tones. This could be fun.

Hello and welcome!

It’s not needed, but fortunately that’s not a criterion we get to impose on each other. Nor do we get to tell you what rules you can have on your repeaters.