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SteveShannon

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  1. Here’s the official regs: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-E I will try to list the different types of stations but I apologize for missing any: Base Station, Control Station, Fixed Station, Mobile Station, Portable Station, Repeater Station. Unless regulated specifically, Portable Stations are a subset of Mobile Stations. Handhelds are simply a type of Portable Stations. There are a very few regulations that apply to handhelds to the exclusion of other station types. This forum has a long and possibly inconclusive discussion about Fixed Stations.
  2. If you read the regulations you’ll find references to several different types of stations.
  3. If you click on where it says “quote” at the bottom of the post you’re replying to, you won’t need to copy and paste and put quotation marks around it. It’ll automatically put it in a nice box.
  4. Elapsed time between when something was certified by FCC and the time it shows up in the list you looked at.
  5. That sometimes happens (at least I recall it happening once before.) It doesn't necessarily mean it's not legit. Might just be a lag.
  6. Capacitive coupling is only for the AC of RF. Capacitors block DC. No DC ground for your antenna is needed. However, poor electrical connections between body parts can be a cause of noise so people frequently bond body parts together with copper braids.
  7. If you choose Tone, only the transmit tone is important. Your radio will let all transmissions it receives through, regardless of the tone or lack of tone. If you change it to Tone Squelch, then your radio will only reproduce the audio from radios that exactly match the tone. I recommend not using Tone Squelch until you have a better understanding of how it works. Your transmissions still must match the input tone required by the repeater.
  8. What does that mean? Please don’t make me look to see what fun I’m missing.
  9. Here’s a lengthy thread about it:
  10. Welcome to the club!
  11. He has five posts and the last four of them are this kind of rubbish.
  12. Sometimes it’s just really easy to determine which whacko to put on the ignore list.
  13. First, a caveat. I don’t have the GMRS version of the UV5R. I have the regular old one. Does the GMRS version automatically do the repeater offset or do you need to include a 5 MHz offset in the column marked offset, like you did for Ranchino?
  14. The electrical ground through the cable shield is sufficient. None of the magnetic NMO mounts require you to scrape to bare metal.
  15. Why? Because features that are not supposed to be there are sometimes not there?
  16. Without knowing more about it I can only speculate, but the distance alone wouldn’t prevent it. So you are transmitting on 467.675 MHz with a tone of 141.3 Hz? The reason I usually suggest that people listen without a tone is because then you hear everything on 462.675 MHz. First, make sure you can hear the repeater. If you can’t, it doesn’t matter if the repeater hears you. Once you know you can hear the repeater then try transmitting. Feel free to ask if anyone hears you. Most people are friendly.
  17. MTS2000? http://www.batteryuniverse.com/two-way-radio/motorola/mts2000/btexc450sf-motorola-mts2000-radio-antenna?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp9-24541-BTEXC450SF&sc_intid=9-24541-BTEXC450SF&gbraid=0AAAAAD8Yjy-XpLrRokYZeHm-DIBekxYoi&gclid=Cj0KCQjw06-oBhC6ARIsAGuzdw2eJxZ-NWjBRWo_Q2E7B6fhTM1hPKpF4ybW7kSdZSVdZmotJ_Hs-1UaAlYWEALw_wcB
  18. It’s also the origin of another word. Nero shortened the guy’s fingers because he had been impolite. The Latin word for short is “corto”. From that comes our word “courteous”, which that stubby fingered fella was afterwards.
  19. But the good news is it might only have eight repeater channels to memorize.
  20. I don’t think it does that.
  21. If you want to see several of the different threads about this topic, search the forums for “95.1749”
  22. I don’t know that you’ll get solid answers.
  23. They have before. Probably none of them wish to rehash this:
  24. The problem I have is that you keep saying "linking" is prohibited. The regulation only says "connecting to a network other than for control purposes" is prohibited. Although a network is the most likely (and easiest) way people would link repeater, it's not the only way. Two repeaters could be directly connected (linked) which would not involve a network. Also, the fact that probably hundreds of GMRS repeaters are linked, using the internet, and FCC has done nothing about it, including no "do-better" letters, makes me think it's a tempest in a teapot.
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