SteveShannon

Do you do that under Call Roster, add the call sign as a “watcher” and then set an alert for wanted call signs?

Oh, I understand. But out of all the radios I have only one doesn’t create a virtual serial port. But I never have to do anything with IRQ. Sometimes I have to set baud rate. Usually, I have to set the port so the software knows, but not always.

Unfortunately, most of the computer software creates virtual serial ports and require the user to determine which ports are being used.

15 started fading for me so I went to 20 m.

Okay, everything looks good now. FT8 on 15m I’m AI7KS

It won’t be this morning. I’ll have to retune. Mother Nature played a little April Fool’s Day trick on us. What’s your call sign?

HF, often 15 or 20 meters. I have to add your call sign also!

This! Use logging software that makes use of CAT to automatically log everything other than the call sign. I use Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook. All I have to enter is the call sign and click log this contact. But FT8 is even easier Also, depending on the software I can set alarms for call signs, states, counties, grid squares, countries, continents, etc that I want to watch for. Today I’m going to create my own contest: “Worked mygmrs members!” using these ham call signs for folks who are MyGMRS members: KF0NYL KC8LDO KE8OWX KO6BIK KD2TWM K4BJW N0TXW

It was difficult for me too and I’m just one state to the west.

Ha! No problem. Sorry to be so OCD.

@OffRoaderX: this is your stomping grounds. What’s your opinion?

Not very much; every user is still required to use the proper call sign (even though all of them are using the same call sign), but in this situation the repeater is not required to ID separately.

Rich can’t possibly read every post so I’ll report your post to catch his attention. This sometimes happens where the Premium status at one level of the website doesn’t carry over to the forum level. It happened to me a month or so ago. Rich is good about fixing it.

Set your TX frequency to 467.600 MHz. Your receive frequency is as you’ve already listed.

Step defines the spacing between frequencies when in VFO mode. Because GMRS has predetermined channels set in regulation it really doesn’t apply but if it’s set too high it can block entering an approved frequency from the front panel. Set it lower than 6 kHz.

Given that people are reticent to report such things and the FCC’s dismal record at enforcement, nothing will probably ever happen about that, but honestly, their range probably is no better than that of your repeater.

I’m not sure how you would ever get a full 50 watts out of the duplexer while remaining within GMRS regulations. Regulations mandate a max of 50 watts out of the transmitter and there are always insertion losses through a duplexer.

Speaking of someone not having anything better to do…

Here you go:

I’m guessing the OP ordered it, then shifted into overdrive while waiting for it to arrive. Once he receives it he’ll hopefully notice the directions. On the other hand if he took it out of the box and shitcanned the box without reading it, he’s going to suffer some serious ribbing.

No problem; I wasn’t criticizing you, just offering a way to correct without creating a new post.

You can simply edit your original post by clicking on the three dots in the upper right corner and choosing edit.

Maybe a CR.

Well, no; that $20 retail price was probably $6 when purchased by the importer. So a 25% tariff would be $1.50 which could easily be absorbed or partially absorbed rather than passed through. A 100% tariff might add $3 to the price.

437.815 to 437.785 is 30 kHz, much less than 1 MHz. So you’re shifting +/-15 kHz not MHz.