SteveShannon

Check squelch and tones. If you have tone squelch set when there isn’t one being transmitted you’ll never hear the transmission. If you have no tone set, but your squelch is set too high, you’ll never hear anything that’s not strong signal.

Here’s the site for GMRS lookups: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchGmrs.jsp Here’s the link to ham license lookups: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp

Yes.

Welcome to the forums. Let me make sure I understand. I think you meant to say that you can’t activate any local repeaters on 2 meters and 440 MHz (70 cm) but you have no trouble receiving them. Do you have the GMRS or ham radio version of the TDH3? Does the red transmit light come on when you push the PTT? Are you able to activate GMRS repeaters?

That’s what I do, simply click on either the bell to see the notifications or click on Unread Content. I only see what’s new.

As @gortex2 mentioned: HF ham radio. 40 meters would probably be easiest. You really don’t need a high powered transmitter. Get your technician license and use Morse code or your general license if you want to use voice, start attending swap meets, and learn all you can about antennas.

This is an interesting technical question. An antenna over salt water which is just about the perfect ground plane. For one thing, propagation isn’t strictly determined as perpendicular to the radiator; the angle of the ground plane also affects it, albeit less so at UHF than HF. You might be able to simply raise a wire alongside your mast. If I knew more about how to simulate this using one of the antenna simulation software programs I think it would help. Do you know someone who does that sort of thing? I just don’t know much about it. What type of antennas are typically used for marine band?

There’s a difference between privacy and secrecy. Secrecy is when people don’t know what you’re doing. Privacy is often used to mean that, but can also mean that you reduce the chances of being disturbed or interrupted. The way the question was answered in the “test” makes it obvious that’s the meaning the OP intended. That’s why there’s a classification level of “Top Secret“ but not “Top Private.”

That happens if you haven’t installed the correct driver before plugging in the USB cable.

Premium users see no ads and are able to download lists of repeaters. The site is run by one person who has to pay for everything out of his own pocket and then spend time and money to support it. He can either do that with advertising or with our donations.

Yes, it’s part of my profile, but purchasing a ham radio is not restricted by any regulations. I wouldn’t deal with a company that thinks it’s their business to act as gatekeepers.

Do ham radio vendors require a call sign before selling a radio?

Welcome! I’m very sorry for your loss. if you haven’t already found it, I found HamStudy.org to be an extremely effective way to study for my ham license.

But if you leave it in Tone mode instead of TSQL, it doesn’t matter what the receive tone is.

I don’t know much about the settings in the Retevis, but for some radios (Baofeng in particular ) the discrete squelch settings may be assigned to different levels on a wider spectrum. Randy talks about that at about the 10 minute mark in this video: And he posts a link to an article about it here: https://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Squelch.php I don’t know if your repeater has a setting like that

Just buy some 12 gauge stranded insulated copper wire from an automotive supply store (avoid CCA or Copper Clad Aluminum). If needed pay someone to terminate it correctly. Or take it to an automotive stereo installer.

Press MR key for 1 second. Pages 9 and 10 in the manual.

I agree that’s how it should work, but try it to be sure. As far as more range, it will now trigger on a weaker signal. You might find that it doesn’t drop the transmission or something like that.

You could set it to zero because you also have CTCSS or DTCSS, don’t you? But you’ll have a few more low level transmissions.

Extend the power cable.

The addition of coax typically reduces the measured reflected power, resulting in a lower observed SWR.

1. Yes, theoretically, but you’re really asking about how well the various body parts are bonded. If you have enough impedance between where you connect the black wire of your radio and the negative post on your battery, you’ll see a voltage drop to the radio, worse at high current. 2. Yes Your chassis ground is a DC ground used as the return for the car’s electrical system. Your ground plane does not need to be connected to your chassis ground. You could use a sheet of metal completely isolated from your vehicle as your ground plane, but your radio requires a good low impedance path for its dc power source.

Look up their address from their call sign and send them snail mail if they aren’t a member here.

Most people do not approach GMRS as a hobby to itself. They’re not really interested in making and logging QSOs. I use GMRS as a communication tool while pursuing my other hobbies. But, there’s nothing wrong with what you suggest. Just don’t expect QSO cards or log verifications like you get on QRZ.com A friend of mine uses a composition book for logging his ham QSOs. I use the logbook built into HRD for my ham QSOs. I used to just use QRZ.com ARRL makes a nice compact paper booklet for logging. Amazon has it for about $8.

He may consider that a challenge. Don’t encourage him.