SteveShannon

That’s what we see when also we click on your screen name. It’s when we click on the image in your sig that we get the 403. I don’t think that’s anything you’re doing wrong. I think it’s just a permissions setting for the site where the image is stored.

All my life I’ve been interested in astronomy. When my class had its eighth grade graduation we had a skit where we dressed up to look like our future selves. I stood on the school stage dressed in a long black robe with a mortarboard on my head looking through a mocked up telescope. This was supposed to depict me as a future scientist. Yet oddly enough, despite my basic interest, I never really got into astronomy. Oh, I have a couple telescopes. Over the years I’ve used binoculars and spotting scopes. Maybe 20 years ago I bought a 4” Orion Dobsonian. I use it seldom, although I have used it to see Mercury pass across the sun and to view solar eclipses (with a solar filter of course. 15 years ago I bought a 10” Cave Astrola (big reflector scope with equatorial mount) that one of my engineer’s father was selling. I should have paid better attention. He was selling it because he was switching over to viewing streaming images on the internet. I believe it’s a nice scope but I have never looked through it. I ought to remedy that. @OffRoaderX I hope you love your new telescope and I hope that you will do a series of YouTube videos with your new equipment. Maybe that will get me off my butt.

No, I have never been able to see it either. I see a huge blank area at the bottom of every one of your posts that says dead sticker.jpg, so I have an idea what it’s supposed to be. But if I click on it I also get the 403 warning. You’re definitely not on my ignore list.

I’ve not heard of ANI ID’s being displayed on the screen of another radio, although it makes sense that some devices can interpret them. Nor do I know if they are delivered through a repeater. This has been discussed before on the forum but I don’t recall anyone having great success using them. They’re more of a feature used by commercial radios and maybe the people here who deal with commercial radios can advise you more. @nokones, @Lscott, @gortex2, @marcspaz Here’s a thread on radio reference that discusses the various settings and how they’re used referring, to a Baofeng UV-82. It might be useful anyway. https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/baofeng-uv-82-need-help-with-understanding-ani-id-signal-code-ptt-id.282829/ The post that appears to have the most helpful information about the subject is #10. I haven’t tried any of this. I’m curious what you intend to do with ANI-ID?

Maybe it doesn’t really send it. I believe you have it set correctly although are you waiting slightly to allow the code to be sent before you speak? Try it in the ham mode (assuming you’re licensed appropriately.)

No, the station has nothing to do with the building your station is in. You can have a GMRS station placed right next to your ham station on the same desk, in the same jeep, or on the same belt. You simply use the other radio. But only if you have the appropriate license. I have both and as long as I remember to grab the right microphone and use the right call sign I can have a two way conversation to either service. But I agree with you that hams should not be lecturing GMRS licensees and vice versa. I don’t agree with your premise that amateur radio operators are necessarily more educated and experienced. They are more tested however.

As far as communicating between a ham station and a GMRS licensee, it could be easily done by having the ham transmit on a ham frequency and received on a ham receiver by the GMRS licensee. No rule prohibits any person from receiving on ham frequencies. Then the GMRS licensee could transmit on the GMRS station. No rule prohibits any person from receiving on GMRS frequencies. But both transmissions would violate the regulations against one way transmissions.

Nearly everything of significance is defined by the FCC. GMRS is one of the Personal Radio Services. Here’s the definition of a station: Personal Radio Services station. Any transmitter, with or without an incorporated antenna or receiver, which is certified by the FCC to be operated in one or more of the Personal Radio Services.

Welcome Mark! 462.675 is the frequency you receive the repeater on. So it’s sometimes known as the repeater output frequency. If you use a GMRS radio the offsets are automatically set. On GMRS you always transmit on 467.xxx MHz frequencies and receive on 462.xxx MHz frequencies when you use a repeater channel. Disregard user socalgmrs. He’s having a bad day. Apparently he feels better about himself when he’s scolding new people. Feel free to ask questions. Welcome to the forum.

@WSFP666 - feel free to add socalgmrs to your ignore list and feel free to ask questions.

Correct. The offset should be automatically added for the repeater channels (RP15 - RP22) and the other channels (1- 22) shouldn’t have any offset. Channels 1-7 are limited to 5 watts. Channels 8-14 are probably not available to you. Channels 15-22 are limited to 50 watts, as are the repeater channels.

Atan(70/2640) = 1.5° The height difference should not matter.

That’s exactly why we work in decibels. You just add them together. So rounding off all to -3 db per 100 feet for lmr400, 1.40 x -3 db = -4.2 db. -4.2 db + 11.9 db leaves you with 7.7 db gain. I assume the 11.9 db you quoted for the antenna is dBi. So, compared to an isentropic antenna you’re radiating a little better than four times as much power horizontally. If the antenna gain was actually expressed as dBd you add 2.15 db to it and the result is 9.85 db gain which is about eight times as much power.

I think he most frequently acts like this in his early morning posts. Perhaps he sought medication the night before?

Some manufacturers confuse the issue by naming repeater channels RP15 through RP22. Other manufacturers simply continue the numbering from 23 through 30, so when you said Repeater Channel 17, you were really on channel 17, which is not a repeater channel. Second, I am not familiar with the radio shown and I don’t want to add confusion. It appears to show T-DCS is OFF. Does that mean it isn’t sending a DCS code, @OffRoaderX?

Monitoring for traffic can have a couple connotations. Radio traffic or highway traffic reports on the radio. When I first read the question I wasn’t sure which was being asked.

You’re right. I misunderstood what this device was. Here’s a picture of it in use (as a marketing model).

People come to forums to ask questions. That’s perfectly normal. In fact it’s good that they have someplace to come and ask questions. The OP may have been confirming his own understanding of the regulations. Responding like a total buttplug every time someone asks about the regulations is abnormal.

I’m not a telescope expert, but I believe this is the kind of device my friend used to take the Spaghetti Nebula photo above: https://www.highpointscientific.com/zwo-asi2600mc-duo-built-in-dual-sensor-astronomy-camera?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1360885342&utm_content=61324494144&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD-khUbxpGaSORu3Yipm-cdS4E-5t&gclid=CjwKCAiAxea5BhBeEiwAh4t5K29icn6xlqXGdkcmxvtZZ3axpIhvgIy1FW0364WYcUTIhPHYiy-tnhoCpaQQAvD_BwE

Is it possible you’re on one of the simplex channels instead of one of the repeater channels? Both receive on the same frequency but the repeater channels transmit on a different frequency 5.000 MHz higher.

No. New GMRS Licenses are only issued to individuals. For your CERT team to use GMRS each person would require his or her own license, except for family members of a license holder who may be authorized to use the license holder’s stations.

You don’t need a physical com port like a db9 or db25. Your USB ports are mapped as virtual com ports by the drivers that come with the programming software. You will be able to see them appear in Device Manager.

A mobile antenna on a pie plate in front of a window can do a pretty decent job. If I lived closer I’d help you put one in your attic.

The VX-6R is the radio to have in case of the apocalypse. Immersion proof, metal chassis, and reliable. I like it. It’s not cheap and it isn’t loaded with features like APRS or digital audio, but it receives across a very wide range.

Although I don’t use it on GMRS, it’s a fine little radio. It fits nicely in a jacket pocket. I use it mostly for short distances and I put a stubby antenna on it for that reason.