SteveShannon

Terri, Again I want to express my appreciation for your calm and thoughtful comments and informative posts in response to curmudgeonliness. Happy Independence Day!

That’s true, the owner and those authorized to use the owner’s call sign, which is limited to the owner’s relatives except in an emergency.

Premium members can run reports and download files that can be used offline.

Yes, they need to be connected together. Surecom makes a couple of controllers (628 and 629) which might work. However, desense frequently occurs when trying to cobble together a repeater from two transceivers and you might want to run the transmitter at low power if you anticipate much use.

Repeaters are required to transmit the call sign at the end of a conversation and every 15 minutes while in use. Most don’t transmit their call every 15 minutes when not in use because that would be annoying to anyone who monitors the repeater. So, after a repeater has been on standby for awhile and someone tries it or kerchunks it, many repeaters will issue their call sign. As far as what inverse and normal means, DCS is a digital code rather than a tone like CTCSS. So it’s really a series of 1s and 0s. For instance 5 is normally 00000101. If you invert it, it’s 11111010. Often, DCS codes are expressed with either an N or an I as part of the code to denote whether it’s Normal or Inverted. If neither is included most of us assume N for Normal.

No, not for most radios. His combination of previous batteries resulted in charging voltages after charge completion, that were too high for the radio.

Thank you for sharing your insider knowledge.

This is the perfect place. I’m glad you’re feeling better and I hope for the best for you.

No it wasn’t. The Q codes started in 1912. QSL started in the 1920s. 10-4 was created in the 1930s.

No, but it might only be the cool people who got the notification.

Either because you have the wrong receive code (better to use none at first) or because your transmitter radio is causing the receiver radio to go deaf, which is called “desense.”

WSHY770 is a GMRS call sign. RadioID only issues DMR IDs to services which allow DMR. DMR is not available on GMRS under normal circumstances. If you have an amateur call sign you can get a DMR ID at RadioID.

So the repeater heard your transmission and gave a call sign.

Try leaving DCS empty on the receive side and make sure you keep the transmitting radio some distance away from the receiving radio.

Then the stupid bastard should respond to their emails.

Why?

They are not the same company. Baofeng Tech is an American company formed to import and sell Baofeng radios. Their goal was to add value by providing on-shore service for the products they sell, unlike many of the other sellers of Baofeng.

I’m not sure what you think he got wrong, and it’s certainly possible, but there are no 467 MHz range channels in FRS which allow 2 watts. 8-24 are in the 467 MHz range, but they’re limited to only 0.5 watts ERP. The 462 MHz channels 1-7 and 15-22 are two watts. The eight 467 MHz Main Channels in GMRS (generally reserved for repeater inputs, Fixed Stations, and short term testing) are not allowed in FRS.

What makes you think it’s different from any other USB-A to USB-C cable?

This affected everyone and I don’t believe it was related to our length of membership.

I don’t know. Only Rich can answer that question.

Nice!

Here’s a video that describes programming the rt22:

I googled the manual. They’re called QT and DQT on page 05 of the manual. QT will be the tones. DQT will be the codes. I would provide more information if I had one in my hand to try the different buttons and see what does what, but I guess you will have to do that.

You most likely have a CTCSS tone or DTCSS code set on receive on the Midland that differs from the RT22 transmit.