SteveShannon

One of the things that you’ll quickly learn, either by recommendation here or by use there, is that power is highly overrated as a predictor of range. A good receiver that has both sensitivity and selectivity and a good antenna are much much more important than getting an 8 watt output radio versus a 5 watt radio.

That’s not inclusive!!! You must say “Radiosy Radios”.

Not the same kind of map, but a very comprehensive listing is at repeaterbook.com.

That’s right, double down by blaming your mistakes on others’ courage. As @WRQC527said, it had nothing to do with courage. It doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with sexuality and frankly that thought never occurred to me. Your choice of words was insulting, just as you intended it to be, and like every other intentional use of nicknames to put others down. By the way, you might want to take it out of your signature.

What kind of traffic were you hoping for?

That’s not enough information. Are you talking about the speaker output? How are you generating the tone?

Except that you have now announced in an online forum where you store your keys. If you want to delete that part of your post, I’ll edit this post.

That’s the “Hello, World” of two way radios! Good job!

A friend asked me to fix his MFJ 269D Pro. I fixed it yesterday. Someone had broken the N female socket on the top. That was not designed to make it easy to fix!

It’s like speakers for an audio system.

The meter arrived today. Stupidly I didn’t order a short (about 18 inches) coax jumper; don’t be me. So, I used a 12 foot ABR 400 cable. It appears to work just fine but I have no reference. My Radioddity DB20G measured 18 watts at 146.940 MHz. At 147.500 it measured a little over 20 watts. A digital meter might’ve reported more figures to the right of the decimal, but I don’t know that it would mean anything. The SWR of my Comet SBB5 antenna measures 1.1 at 146.940. That’s the frequency of our local repeater. Again, that is meaningless as an endorsement of the meter without a reference of some kind. The only negative that occurs to me is that it seems small. I didn’t pay attention to the dimensions.

And this site explains what those three characters each mean: http://fcclicenses.blogspot.com/2011/10/fcc-emission-designators-what-do-codes.html TL; DR: So, for instance, F1D means Modulation type: F Angle-modulated, straight FM, Nature of modulating signal: 1 Digital, on-off or quantized, no modulation, Information type: D Data, telemetry, telecommand

Although I don’t have this particular radio, it just wouldn’t make sense for the manufacturer to do that. I tried searching for “cloning Btech GMRS Pro” but came up empty. Sorry.

But do they have FCC ID labels or are they just for the export market?

Unless you put the repeater someplace where that 300 foot hill doesn’t block your signals, it’s not going to help. You might have led with that information.

I don’t debate politics on this forum.

Feel free to use the ‘h’ word in all its variants, but quotes are not necessary. I had a friend who was a drafter who always had his caps lock key on for text on drawings. He would get on email and folks cringed because he was always yelling.

That’s correct; it doesn’t appear in the right click menu, but you can click on Edit in the menu bar and all the usual editing options are available.

Yes, constantly putting the word ham and its variations in sneer quotes rankled me also at first. It was a little like being at a party and having a drunken guest constantly doing air quotes where they really didn't belong. ?

I see nothing wrong with what you propose. It's your repeater so you can impose rules that make it more enjoyable for you and your users. I am a ham and I am a GMRS user and I see them as different radio services, used for different purposes, but as I said earlier, it's like the Wild West still with lots of people finding new ways to use GMRS that don't always fit others' concepts. I think it's too simplistic to blame that on others, but we can all share in developing solutions.

The repeater that doesn't require an input tone will repeat everything it hears on its input frequency. The repeater that requires an input tone will only repeat those things that it hears which include the correct tone. So, if you transmit using the input tone for the repeater that requires tones, and if you are within range of both, both repeaters will retransmit your transmission.

Exactly this ^^^ Repeaters don't have reserved channels. If a channel is busy, I'll go somewhere else, but if I listen and the channel is free, am I obligated to know that a repeater might use that frequency? How is it possible for me to even know that a channel is the output channel of a repeater? Once someone is using a frequency, whether for simplex communications or as the output of a repeater, others should respect that. That's only right. Having a repeater tone set on your receiver will invariably lead to a collision because a person using a repeater won't hear someone who is transmitting without a tone or with a different tone.

I would like to see the list. If I'm doing something that is a problem I want to know about it. I can always learn and improve.

Here's an article about Ukraine ham radio silence: https://www.arrl.org/news/ukraine-maintains-ham-radio-silence-in-state-of-emergency

You can still renew it, but after 10/29/2023 you will have to completely redo it. It expired 10/29/2021 Go here to find out how: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/support/knowledge-base/common-amateur-filing-tasks/common-amateur-filing-task-renewing