SteveShannon

I’ve seen “YouTube reports” that both sides have adopted Baofeng radios when needed. I wouldn’t be surprised. And, yes, Ham Radio 2.0 had a YouTube video with a representative from the Polish Amateur Radio Club where they were actively soliciting support for Ukraine. I don’t remember the details, but it’s an easy video to find.

I sure can’t tell. I was kind of hoping to see a “Pofung” label. ?

He said it looks like a Motorola DP4400.

I certainly couldn’t identify it either, but if you read the comments one person “identified” it as a particular unencrypted Motorola model. ?

This video purportedly show a Ukrainian drone picking up a Russian handheld that was dropped. Personally I have my doubts, only because with all the Russians who have been killed in Ukraine, the Ukrainians probably don’t need to do this, but I don’t really know. It’s fun to think that this might have happened, anyway. Steve

Did you bring it back to the present afterwards?

The QuadNet Array - D-STAR, DMR and C4FM Fusion II Done Your Way! ?

And another:

462.575 MHz is used by many repeaters in many places. I’m pretty sure you’ll need to figure out something unique, such as a node number, for use on the network. Where are you and what’s the name of the repeater? That will give someone a chance to assist you.

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And DMR Plus is promised to be the next big thing! ?

Oops - never mind. I misunderstood the question, even though it was plainly stated. But really, just do two separate antennas separated vertically.

The interstitial channels do in GMRS: (b) 462 MHz interstitial channels. The effective radiated power (ERP) of mobile, hand-held portable and base stations transmitting on the 462 MHz interstitial channels must not exceed 5 Watts. (c) 467 MHz interstitial channels. The effective radiated power (ERP) of hand-held portable units transmitting on the 467 MHz interstitial channels must not exceed 0.5 Watt. Each GMRS transmitter type capable of transmitting on these channels must be designed such that the ERP does not exceed 0.5 Watt.

Not in the ham market. Although not considered one of the big three, Alinco has both handheld and mobile radios in DMR, which appear to be Anytone OEM. All are type 90 certified. I like mine.

My Alinco Ham radio has the ability to program in different tone sequences and no-tone sequences in a custom roger beep, but I don’t think the level is configurable. I don’t know if my Garmin Rino GMRS Radio has a similar capability; I doubt it does.

Two separate antennas on the same tower? It’s done all the time, but I don’t believe you’d need a third duplexer. Just be sure to separate them vertically.

You can use either. Personally, I would choose metal for the added rigidity. Having a Yagi on the end of a flexible mast would be counterproductive.

You didn’t provide much background. I don’t know if the preprogrammed channels will survive a reset. Your seller can advise you. What I would suggest is to download the configuration from the radio before performing a reset. As far as your second question, whether CTCSS should be on, it depends on whether whatever radio you’re transmitting to is set to expect CTCSS. If you’re just transmitting in hopes that someone will hear you and chat with you, then leave CTCSS off. If you’re trying to get into a repeater that requires CTCSS, then turn it on, but you must make sure to set the right CTCSS tone to transmit. When getting started it’s usually better to leave CTCSS off on the receive side, at least until you know what you’re doing.

My Yaesu FT5DR has automatic mode select. I tried to use it. Once I was listening to an analog net and when I tried to check in it switched to digital when hit the PTT. It’s entirely possible that I had it configured incorrectly, but it was sure annoying to everyone else listening. I turned AMS off and haven’t had any problems since.

I think it’s still possibly multipath.

I understand that the FRS radio is fine. It almost certainly has a less selective SOC receiver than the superhet KG-S88G, not necessarily less sensitive. Thus it will be less affected by things that can disturb the repeaters transmitted signal. Usually that helps reduce interference from other sources, but it could also cause a poor signal to be rejected, even though you want to hear it. When I suggested trying other radios I was hoping to detect a pattern of more than a single sample. If other superhet radios do the same thing then you might be able to rule out problems with the Wouxun. Are there any wind generators or similar large moving surfaces near you or the repeater? Or the fading in and out maybe caused by multipath propagation.

Maybe it’s a problem that affects the more selective receivers. Try it with some other radios.

So for purposes of this thought exercise, a bunch of hams would network their ham repeaters and then discuss GMRS? Of course to be compliant we wouldn’t allow any GMRS repeaters to connect to the common network, right?