SteveShannon

Once they worked for me on my W10 pc, but not now.

After AT&T’s outage today, I predict more radios in trucks.

I had to go look it up, but I was thinking that the SBB-7NMO might be a good choice also, but I’m not sure how it looks on GMRS frequencies. It’s about 55 inches long. I think you’re right that the CA-2x4SR has a better wideband response.

My anecdotal understanding of posts on this forum is that chirp works fine with the Baofeng uv5g and the Radioddity uv5g, but not with the uv5g plus.

Look into the Diesel antenna mount that screws into place between the third brake light and the cab. Then just use something like one of the SBB series long enough to get above the trailer.

No, it means you will hear everything transmitted on the frequency your radio is receiving. Both repeaters and radios using simplex transmit on the same frequencies.

1. This isn’t a new rule, and 2. Why would you want to hurt ham radio repeaters? They didn’t do this to you, and 3. Of course you can talk to your friends. You still have a phone right?

The repeater outputs that tone but it’s received by your radio. However, if you leave the receive tone empty (or choose TONE instead of TSQL) then your radio will reproduce everything, not just transmissions with the tone.

Definitely check out the clubs to find out when they hold tests. You don’t need a license for that and in fact the clubs are usually pretty welcoming to anyone with a pulse and who is interested in ham radio. As far as studying, clubs can help with that also, or you can do it on your own using printed materials, YouTube videos or my personal favorite HamStudy.org. It’s free unless you buy the application which allows you to study anytime and anywhere on your personal device.

Ha!

You bet!

DN is normal. DI is inverted. Unless it says inverted use the normal. DPL is just Motorola marketing language for what others call DCS or DTCSS. PL is just CTCSS. Again marketing crap.

Amen!

As others have already commented, the only frequencies that GMRS operators are licensed to use are the 30 listed in the regulations. All of the in-between frequencies are off limits to us for GMRS. That’s unlike most of ham radio where ranges of frequencies are available. For the authoritative reference, here are the official regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-E

Our two meter repeater has a phone patch.

It sure makes it easier to replace.

I don’t know that it makes any difference to battery life, but there is no appreciable benefit. Now if you filtered on different tones for the two different channels it would make a difference. For instance, if you know that the repeater uses 100 Hz as it’s CTCSS output tone you might want to program that tone into 26. If you discovered that there were people transmitting on 18 using 143.3 Hz and you set that tone for 18 then you could tell which is which, usually.

I suspect your receiver is listening on both channels (18 and 26). If it’s a dual VFO receiver the two VFO’s are sequentially polled at a brisk rate. If your radio is on 18 when the signal is detected it identifies the signal as being on 18. If it’s on the other VFO at the time it identifies it as 26, but in reality unless you know two different transmitters use different tones or transmit signals with different characteristics, like a Roger beep on one or ANI on one, it’s probably not possible to distinguish.

It probably never could be perfected. With one PL tone locked out and hundreds others potentially being used, whenever one of the other tones is present, squelch is opened, allowing the strongest station to be heard.

I’m not an authoritative source but I haven’t seen any GMRS radios that allow blocking a single tone. But apparently some scanners do allow a tone lockout: https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/sds-how-to-block-specific-dcs-ctcss-from-non-tone-protected-channel.414445/

Network connection. Connection of a Personal Radio Services station to the public switched network, so that operators of other stations in that service are able to make (and optionally to receive) telephone calls through the connected station.

After flip-flopping on this like a very lively fish, I have to agree with the logic and concern about poorly written rules expressed by 73Blazer. 95.349 covers all of the personal radio services. It prohibits connecting to the telephone network but allows exceptions in the rules for each service.. It doesn’t mention other types of networks. 95.1749 is the exception baked into the GMRS rules, but as 73Blazer says the exception listed there is poorly written. The phrase basically allows us to connect to the telephone network or any other network only for the purpose of remote operation. But connecting to any other network was never prohibited in 95.349 or the first clause of 1749, so I think the FCC’s interpretation under the Operations Tab on that other page is wrong. That might be what they want it to say, but wishes don’t make rules.

Welcome to the forums!

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