SteveShannon

You would probably be the person I would guess is most likely to have to deal with stalkers. I think you were right to change your fcc license address from your physical location in California to the mailbox service. Based on some of the unhinged comments you’ve pinned on your YouTube videos it’s obvious that there are some frighteningly irrational people out there and California has had its share of celebrity stalking. In any case I’m glad you have not had problems.

Just search Amazon for Amateur Radio License Exam Question Pool. I think they’re compiled by Gordon West. Or download the questions and answers for free from https://www.ncvec.org But as a volunteer examiner I will tell you that the gnashing of teeth from people like wrkc935, incensed over the availability of the question pool is wasted gnashing. The pools are large (hundreds) with respect to actual number of questions on the tests and in my opinion it would be difficult to memorize 300 questions and answers without learning something about the concepts. Almost all the people I have administered tests to have had questions about the concepts if they have incorrect answers. Only one has not and he repeatedly fails on the amateur extra examination. I’ve offered to go over the questions and answers with him and I’ve offered to explain concepts but so far he hasn’t taken me up on the offer.

The vast majority of people might not, but it doesn’t matter. It only takes one to ruin your life.

It depends. If you mount them on the same mast with one vertically above the other they can be just a 14 inches (a half wavelength) or so apart. If you place them on the same level then the transmissions from one antenna are much more likely to affect the other. The signal strength goes down by 10 db (a factor of 10) for every foot of horizontal separation. A foot of vertical separation is worth about ten feet of horizontal separation.

Often you can tell whether a transmission came from a repeater because repeaters stay open for a brief time. You leave the receiver tone off until you know your transmissions are getting into the repeater. That way you’re only fighting one problem at a time.

Wait a second. The output tone for a repeater is the receive tone for your radio and honestly you should probably leave it out at first. The Input tone for the repeater is the transmit tone for a radio trying to use the repeater.

Good job!

Download and read the manual for the Bridgecom repeater to see how easy it is to change channels. Do the channels on the receiver side change when you change the channel on the transmitter side? I suspect the repeater will be inconvenient to use as a base station. I think you’re right that the duplexer will limit you to the channel pair it’s tuned to, which will severely attenuate reception on the simplex channels. I would simply get a cheap (but generally liked) mobile radio like the db20g and connect it directly to the antenna when you want to have a base station.

Actually, @MarkInTampa asked if you were using the correct port on the radio six minutes after you first posted your question.

Here’s what the regulations say. It’s certainly not limited to families. People can use GMRS talk about many different things. There is a longer list of prohibited uses, but talking about radios isn’t in there. 95.1731 Permissible GMRS uses. The operator of a GMRS station may use that station for two-way plain language voice communications with other GMRS stations and with FRS units concerning personal or business activities.

The FTM-6000 isn’t listed as one of the ATAS interface radios. I think the hypothetical answer should be no.

This! If a person is an ass, it doesn’t matter what radio service they’re using.

5 minutes Actually, we hams tend to call each other by our call signs more often than our names. We often log those contacts. If we’re having a net we check in and then wait to be called back. We say our call sign every 10 minutes or sooner and at the end of the conversation. When I use GMRS it’s strictly casual on a first name basis. I don’t care what the other person’s call sign is. I use mine at the end of every 15 minutes and when ending a conversation, but otherwise I just don’t say it. GMRS is like talking on the phone to someone except simplex.

Many radios have the ability to monitor two channels. Those are the two.

On the Midland mxt400, DCS 411 is code #51:

Why then would you pose the question in a forum, which by definition is populated by random internet people?

Welcome!!!

No

Thanks, Rich. I am not the target audience for this change but I understand how thankless running a site like this can be.

You don’t need a receive tone. If you leave it empty you receive everything on that frequency.

Welcome to the forum! That is how GMRS frequently is. Making random contacts with people on radio is more of a ham radio pursuit.

Possibly because copper tubing slim-jims are also sold on KB9VBR’s site: https://www.jpole-antenna.com/shop/uhf-440-470-mhz-slim-jim-antenna/ What distinguishes a slim-jim is the folded dipole design, not that it’s made from flatline.

You bet! Happy Easter!

Pick the RPT channel that receives on 462.650 MHz. It will have the right offset for transmitting on 467.650 MHz Set the TX tone to 192.8 Hz. Leave RX tone empty. Press PTT and ask for a radio check. If nobody answers they might be at church. Happy Easter!

The last thing I heard about the GM-30 was that it was shipping with one channel (15) not working. I wouldn’t order one. I would buy a Wouxun KG-805 and watch Notarubicon videos if I were you.