SteveShannon

I set it to one of my Quick Memory Banks but so far have heard nothing. I agree that I would never transmit on that frequency. They have enough going on without some numbnuts trying to “help” without being part of the coordinated effort.

Transmitting with one radio and listeniing with another radio right next to the transmitting radio is not a reliable way to determine that you're not transmitting. The listening radio may desense and become deaf because of the proximity of the transmitting radio.

This is a link to a document on the Hawaii Emergency Amateur Radio site: Maui HAM RADIO - Updates This file: https://bit.ly/HAM-UPDATE - Send updated to KH6ML808@gmail.com https://bit.ly/Maui-ICS-205-HAM - Updated by KH6ML and KH6UU Suggest you download and print - Load into the radio. Radio Bulletins RE: Maui Wildfires have affected phones, internet, and cell services across Maui. No contact was established with Lahaina or its ham operators due to burned fiber lines and VERY limited hams in the area. KH6COM Linked Repeater Update As of 9:15 am, operational in Kula, Maui (NH6Y & KH6UU) Maui Winlink Status: Stations are operational but some face internet disruptions. Can still function as digipeaters. HF Stations are suggested to monitor 7.088 LSB. Your participation is crucial during this time. SEE 40meter.net Informal Nets held at 9am, Noon and 4pm. 12:19pm 8/9/23 checked AREDN microwave link Waialae Iki to Haleakala PtP link operational LQ 100% both directions. Microwave to internet crossover on Oahu is Kaimuki one hop from Waialae Iki. Received AREDN call little while later from Mitch advising the KH6MP-3 gateway on 145.09 available and reachable from West Maui and Upcountr and/or Digipeat WH6FVX in Kula. Normal Weekly HF ARES Net on Wednesday night 18:30 on 7.088 LSB DMR-Hawaii- Lost Kula and West Maui repeaters. Wailuku is still up on 444.9500 + CC3 Mauna Kea Repeater at the top of Big Island is on the air for EMCOMM purposes, 146.720, Negative Offset, - pl100.0 FM (4:33 PM 8/9/2023 Haleakala Digipeater Protocol: Should KH6COM-10 encounter connectivity problems, it will continue as a Digipeater. KH6ML and digipeat via KH6COM-10 on 441.000. Change to 441.000 KH6ML Winlink Gateway to service Maui -Station: KH6ML: 441.000 VARA FM Kaneohe, Oahu Status: Operational as a Winlink Gateway with internet Note: Please limit testing to affected areas. Hawaii Allstar Repeaters on-line on Maui County: Maui WH6AV - Wailuku 443.025 (+) PL 103.5 Repeater WH6CYD - Pukalani 147.000 (+) PL 88.5 Repeater WH6YF - Lahaina 147.540 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) Fire related WH6FQM - Lahaina 444.800 (+) PL 88.5 Repeater (Offline) Fire related WH6FGS - Wailuku 442.525 (+) PL 100 Repeater WH6FEO - Wailuku 446.175 PL 100 Simplex AH6MA – Napili 147.495 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) WH6FGX – Waiau 147.510 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) Molokai WH6IT – Ho’olehua 147.420 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) WH6IT – Kaunakakai 145.370 (-) PL 88.5 Repeater Lanai KH6CED - Lanai City 147.435 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) WH6DNN – Lanai City 147.510 PL 100 Simplex (Offline) Please stay vigilant and safe. We extend our gratitude for your amateur radio service. 8/9/2023 10:00am LOCAL AND Visitors that are displaced and do not have accommodations on Oahu can go to Hawaii Convention Center. Maui wildfires 8/9/2023 Noon Impacted areas are approximate and provided for informational purposes only. Check official sources for more information. Help & information Shelter information and family reunification hotline American Red Cross 800-733-2767 Please text for emergencies - Maui 911 back up 2-911 Maui County Emergency Management Agency twitter.com/Maui_EMA Traffic updates on TwitterHawaii Twitter.com/DOTHawaii Situation updates on Twitter County of Maui twitter.com/CountyofMaui

Poorly maintained transmitters can transmit on secondary frequencies or spill over widely around their primary frequency. Poor quality receivers can receive nearby frequencies. Several UHF TV channels exist in the 470-490 MHz range. You may just be hearing one of them.

If you’re a ham and want to listen, but don’t have a DMR radio you can register with RadioID to get a Brandmeister ID and then log into Brandmeister and listen to any talk group using the Hoseline feature.

The net controller from Hawaii did come on and speak briefly about how Maui needs help, but he didn’t go into detail. I was their last check-in. I think I’ll go see if there are Hawaii related DMR talk groups I can monitor.

I’m listening to the California Hawaii Pacific net on 14.340 MHz. They’re just now doing check-ins. The net controller is in Hawaii but hasn’t been talking about Maui, at least while I’ve been listening.

Thanks for helping folks.

if you're a ham, you won't be able to help regular folks with radios. Apparently you assume that hams don’t have FRS or better yet GMRS radios, like “regular folks”.

How do you know you’re not transmitting any sound?

Please explain how having their radios MARS/CAP modded is necessary to coordinate with friends with personal radios.

Good luck in your quest. I read the title and thought it was about the new Kenwood handheld which has a very similar name TH D75A:

The GMRS Pro handheld radio is capable of sharing its GPS location with other GMRS Pro hand held radios. I think the OP is asking if there are mobile radios that are compatible with the location sharing feature. @FreqieRadio: Digital data, such as location data may only be transmitted by handheld portable according to the GMRS regulations: (d)Digital data.GMRS hand-held portable units may transmit digital data containing location information, or requesting location information from one or more other GMRS or FRS units, or containing a brief text message to another specific GMRS or FRS unit.

No, 65 is not the same as 165N. Unfortunately some of the manufacturers have included non-standard digital codes. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list. About the “N”, that means normal. If you see an “I” it means that the bits of the code are inverted. There’s also a document “out there” that reveals equivalent codes. It has been attached to forum posts in the past. You might find it in the files section.

This should really be in the amateur radio forum rather than here, but I agree mostly with you. I think it’s a matter of training for all users. It’s a reflection of the fact that technician class opens up two bands to people with the least training. There are calling frequencies for digital modes and most DMR traffic is on UHF, rather than VHF, but people do make mistakes and sometimes our smart radios don’t always help. I had to turn off automatic mode detection on my FT5DR to avoid accidental transmissions using C4FM. It’s also indicative that people are misusing the 2 meter national calling frequency as an emergency frequency. If a person is going somewhere where they might need emergency communications they should probably get a PLB of some kind. For those interested in a discussion of simplex frequencies and digital modes, here is a page listing the simplex frequencies for digital voice modes: https://0x9900.com/dmr-or-c4fm-simplex-frequencies/

Good job!

PL was Motorola’s term for CTCSS, which is an analog tone that’s sent to open the squelch on the radio you’re trying to reach. It stands for Private Line, but it doesn’t mean your conversation won’t be heard. Look in your manual for CTCSS. There’s a similar feature called DPL for Digital Private Line. It’s commonly called DCS or DTCSS.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy it!

Try menu #19, sub channel display

Are those areas where they “shouldn’t be using it” frequencies that have already identified for use somehow, such as the National calling frequency 146.520, or do they violate the area band plan? If not, a person with a digital radio (Fusion, DMR, or D*Star) has just as much right to use the frequency as anyone else.

YES, assuming the repeater uses DCS, the “input tone” for the repeater is T-DCS on your radio, the tone that you must transmit. For the receive side you must either program the right receive tone or code OR tell your radio to not require a tone or code. That can be helpful when first starting. In that case your radio reproduces everything received on that frequency.

You referred to it as an antenna, but the rest of your question seems to indicate it might be a tower. I’ll answer it as if it is an antenna. My answer would be different for a tower. A picture of the antenna might help, but the things that come to mind first are as follows: First I would put an antenna analyzer on it to see if it’s resonant anywhere close to the GMRS range of frequencies. Channels 2-13 were VHF (30-300 MHz), not UHF (300-3000 MHz). The UHF channels may have been covered by antenna also, but most TV antennas were targeted at VHF. Second, TV antennas were designed to be 75 ohm. Most two way radio antennas are 50 ohm. That’s not a bad problem, but may require some ingenuity. Third, the structure of this antenna might be usable as a tower to raise a GMRS antenna. That might be a useful thing! Good luck!

There’s no GMRS repeater here. For 2 meter 146.940, 100 Hz tone, -0.600 MHz offset (146.340 xmit) is probably the most monitored channel. It can be reached beginning at about Dillon. Drive safely.

That’s what I did.

As a condition of buying this tower the guy insisted that I take a Mosley TA-33 antenna, no extra charge. Unfortunately, it exceeds the boom length that Rohn specifies for this tower, which is 10 feet as you said. I haven’t decided on anything else yet. I know I will probably also use it to support a wire antenna and possibly some side arms with VHF and UHF vertical antennas.