SteveShannon

I reported your post to the admin. Hopefully he can assist you with this.

Okay, nice to know you. Reporting your thread is a way to actually send a notification to the administrator. It should be obvious that serial bumping your original complaint hasn’t exactly worked out.

Did you try reporting your post and using the comment field to explain your issue? I have had good results doing that. Simply being tagged might not attract his attention.

When I joined, which was very late last year, I had the option of creating a username. I still had to provide my call sign so they could verify my license, but I didn’t have to use my call sign as my username.

Not that I’ve found, Tom, but the KG-UV8h appears to be a ham version that might be able to be used on GMRS frequencies also according to the comments accompanying this video:

It’s impossible for them to even know. It’s a victimless and harmless violation that can’t be detected. The very epitome of government uselessness.

I am an engineer ? When it comes to antennas, everything affects them. A metal roof certainly would. Foil backed insulation between rafters would as well, but usually insulation is between the ceiling joists rather than the rafters unless the attic is heated. Even roofing nails can have an effect. Attics are also not terribly elevated. However, antennas are frequently placed in attics, including a lot of wire dipoles, and they sometimes work well enough. That’s all we need right? Good enough? Try it. You can always decide to put it outside. Note from personal experience: be careful about roofing nails that stick through the sheathing. More than one person has holed his head on them.

From the sticky at the top of this guest forum: Note to Guest Users: To participate in all Forum threads, you must be registered at the main MyGMRS.com website listed below. In order to register at the main website, you must have a valid FCC issued GMRS license and call sign. It can sometimes take up to a week for the FCC database to sync with the MyGMRS.com database, so if you try to register at the main website and get a note stating that the license listed in your application is not valid, please wait a couple days and try again. Once you are registered at the main website, THEN you can also register here at the forum. Thank you.

Check the Accessibility settings in your device. That’s typically where I make changes that allow my wife to see things better.

@rdunajewski- How can I ignore or mark as read an event or invitation to join a club. Currently there’s an event which leads to an invitation to join Southdade GMRS club. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s simply not something that interests me. It’s in the wrong part of the USA for me. If I click on the event I am asked to agree to the terms and click join or cancel. I click cancel but the event continues to appear whenever I filter for unread content. I don’t see where I can ignore the post either. How I solved it: I clicked “Mark site as read”. That did it. Now, when I click on show unread content, I have an empty list. But I’m still curious why visiting an event post doesn’t mark it as read. I could only click “Mark site read” because I had truly read all other posts, otherwise I would lose track of what I truly had read or not.

Threads don’t get deleted. They remain so that others may learn from them. With that in mind what did you figure out about the receive audio?

Go to ULS Advanced License Search and look for all GMRS licensees in Texas: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAdvanced.jsp;JSESSIONID_ULSSEARCH=NmlSvfQf3LLCynDMknHT40XzHm1LpkTbTyJJNL2ZVqb332mzGd2J!-1761060429!-1920965459

I’m from Butte. I don’t know of any repeaters in the state other than the ones shown on the listing here, which includes one in Kalispell and three in Billings. There is a pretty good DMR network for the state if you are a ham.

Leave the receive tone empty on #2 and try again. If it receives, then the problem was the wrong tone on one or the other. The other possibility is that #2 is too close to #1 and is desensing.

Regarding your two questions: 1. Possible, but improbable for any period of time. If there is a configuration issue that doesn’t match the published value it’s probably related to the tones. When you communicated to the tower owner did you ask to confirm the published tones? 2. Highly unlikely because it would require not only mistuning the repeater but also the duplexer. It wouldn’t be accidental in any case. It’s more likely that the repeater just doesn’t hear or respond to your signal for some reason, but at least you now know that you are on the right track. Since you have two radios you could set one of them to listen on the repeater receive frequency with no receive tone and just leave it on to detect when someone is transmitting to the repeater. Then, if the other radio is set to receive on the repeater transmitting frequency you can possibly verify the right tones. Some radios can be set to scan for tones on a particular frequency; if yours supports this it could be useful.

There are some special packages almost all the time. Right now there are three different bundles where you get two handheld radios for no extra charge. https://www.retevis.com/rt97-long-range-full-duplex-mini-portable-repeater-promotion I have no connection to them and couldn’t tell you which package would be better for you.

This is a very good use for the Retevis RT-97, which is an all in one repeater and duplexer. Add an antenna and cable and you have a small low power repeater.

If you don’t already, binge watch Notarubicon videos on YouTube. That will give you a background that will help you choose. One thing to keep in mind is that no matter what radio you get now you’ll get another.

I said other. I look for an easy to use interface and clear audio on both transmit and receive. I also like a small size and high quality construction.

Rather than bumping your own thread why don’t you report your own post so the administrator sees it? I understand that the $70 figure on the website bothers you.

What do you mean “those are different watts”? His statement is correct. It’s impossible for a radio to emit more power (or even as much) as it consumes. There are always losses. Thus his comment about perpetual motion. A radio that is drawing 50 watts of power will emit a portion of that as heat and some portion of that as RF power.

Yes, repeaters can be connected as part of a network to provide wider coverage. This site has a listing of repeaters on the MyGMRS network. You might even find that there are repeaters that are already part of the network that allow you to speak with your family.

Report the post so Rich knows.

You must transmit on the tone the repeater expects or it will ignore your transmission. So, you must set the tC tone. You can leave the rC tone empty. You’ll receive anything sent on the frequency. Later, when you know that your transmissions are being received and relayed by the repeater you could set the rC, but you don’t have to (and I would urge you not to until you’re sure your transmissions are being received.

You probably meant amperes or amps in the part of your quote I underlined and bolded. For my 100 watt amateur radio transmitter I have a 30 amp 13.8vdc power supply. At full power the current is around 23 amps I think. For a 50 watt transmitter you probably need at least a 15-25 amp power supply just so you’re not running the power supply at full power output. Watts out can never exceed watts in. A car’s electrical system puts out 13.8 volts when the car is running in order to charge the battery. When the car is turned off the voltage of the battery drops down to somewhere around 12.7 or 12.8 volts DC. I routinely charge several sealed lead acid batteries and they are all very close to 12.7 or 12.8 volts when I need to use them (charged and sitting around for a few weeks on a shelf). You may not get 100% of the power from your mobile radio when it’s strictly on battery, but you probably will never know the difference. As far as wattage, it depends on the capacity of the battery, but nearly any of them will put out many amps of current. 8 amps at 12 volts is nearly 100 watts, . You only need that while transmitting. Receiving takes much less power.