SteveShannon

I agree with Gil (wruu653). I’m curious what you disagree about. Do you disagree that the conditions of clauses must both be true (the literal and logical meaning word “and” at the end of the first clause), otherwise the repeater must transmit station identification? Do you disagree with our interpretation that the condition of the first clause is satisfied only if the people using the repeater are people using the license of the repeater owner? Literally “stations operating under the authority of the individual license under which it operates”. Do you disagree that the condition of the second clause is satisfied only if all people using the repeater follow the rules regarding identifying when they use the repeater? Or do you disagree on some other basis? Enhanced Content - Paragraph Tools URL https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/part-95#p-95.1751(c) Citation 47 CFR 95.1751(c) : c. Any GMRS repeater station is not required to transmit station identification if: (1) It retransmits only communications from GMRS stations operating under authority of the individual license under which it operates; and, (2) The GMRS stations whose communications are retransmitted are properly identified in accordance with this section.

Your repeater isn’t required to ID if and only if the only people who use it are people you have authorized to use your call sign and they identify correctly. If anyone with a different call sign uses your repeater, the repeater must be IDed. You can certainly do that manually and it definitely doesn’t have to be Morse code, but the repeater must be identified. Morse just happens to be built in for some controllers. Personally I prefer English language IDs also.

Welcome to the forum. Does the RICK controller have an ID function? The ID can be your call sign in Morse code if it’s easier. The RepeaterID breakout board can be used with the RepeaterID for use with “surplus repeaters” according to the website.

Okay, 55 years ago it was $20, then it was reduced to $4 (that was when I first considered getting a license because $20 was way too much!) The point is that the government has no problem reducing the cost of the license, even to zero.

Not really. CB licenses were $20 each 50 years ago when $20 was a lot of money. Then they lowered it to $4, perhaps hoping to entice more people to get legal.

Absolutely nothing prevents any person from simply buying a full power GMRS radio and using it unlicensed, thereby avoiding whatever gatekeeper challenge “programming a ham radio” might provide.

Yes, it’s possible. They’ve asked us for suggestions for simplifying regulations. Most (by far) of the people who use GMRS now don’t have licenses. One way to simplify this would be to combine FRS and GMRS into a single unlicensed service like FRS is today.

It’s possible for a person to hold different FRNs. GMRS.app will (I believe) find a person who holds different licenses under different FRNs. It appears to look at the address rather than just the FRN.

You can also use this website to see if a GMRS licensee is also a ham: https://gmrs.app

That’s exactly right. I tried hard to give @Socalgmrs his due. I even upvoted a few of his posts after others piled on just because it was him, wanting him to settle in and realize he didn’t have to act like that, but after the past few years where he has steadily gotten worse rather than better I realized that nothing I did was going to change for the better. It helps to understand that he was a member here under the name wrxp381 (his call sign), then changed his username to SocalGMRS, quit the forums, had all of his identifiable posts changed to come from username “guest”, and then came back as socalgmrs again to act exactly the same way he did before or worse. As Randy said, others will provide whatever good information that he might have injected into a conversation. You’ll literally miss nothing by adding him to your ignore list.

Best wishes as you go through ham licensing. HamStudy.org makes it easy and enjoyable and free if you like online learning. One of the things you might learn within a couple years of becoming a ham is that one radio isn’t enough. You might even find that the radios you have unlocked, thinking they could do it all, really aren’t enjoyable to use on those unlocked frequencies when compared to a radio certified for those frequencies.

That’s exactly how I feel also. A fine for using a radio that hasn’t been certified for a particular service will be a secondary charge and will only accompany much more severe primary charges, such as intentionally interfering with government agency’s communications.

No, unfortunately, when people quote his posts they still appear, unless you ignore the people who quote him.

I think you mean that you would like to be able to ignore specific “threads”. If you truly meant “threat” I would urge you to report any threats by clicking on the ellipsis in the upper right corner of the post that includes the threat. I would also like the ability to ignore threads.

I thought we were friends but now I see that you hate me.

I’ll add you to Buddy Watch Alert. I’m AI7KS. Okay, if I see you’re on the air when I’m on the air I’ll call you.

In the U.S., GMRS has no courses. It’s a personal radio service that simply requires paying for a license ($35 for ten years.) Amateur radio does have three levels of participation. Each require passing a test. Again, the license costs $35 for ten years, but in many places the test is free or very inexpensive. My club has free testing. Studying can consist of merely memorizing the answers (which still imparts some knowledge, regardless of how some people might act) or working through the questions and supporting information until you understand the principles. One source of free learning that I greatly enjoyed using when I studied for my ham license was hamstudy.org. It offers flash card type learning with references for every question in the amateur radio test pool so you can learn as much as you want. Based on your response I believe you’re in England. I’m sure they have something similar. Again, good luck!

Best of luck getting that figured out!

I have an Aoyue SMT hot air rework station. It works, but it’s big and clunky. The only reason I got it instead of something else was because it was cheap. I mean really cheap.

N9ZAS?

1. That looks like a capacitor, not a resistor. 2. This really isn’t an electronics lab kind of group, but many of us fiddle. You might get better results at one of the websites/forums dedicated to diy fixing consumer electronics. 3. Do you have a GMRS radio?

I’m on DMR very frequently, because i have a blind deaf friend that I write code plugs for. He travels as president of the deaf/blind division of the National Federation of the Blind and wherever he goes he asks me to prepare a code plug that includes local DMR repeaters and talk groups. I just built him a hotspot also which is set up for both YSF and DMR, with both Brandmeister and TGIF network talk groups. So, I’m constantly aware of them as I am fiddling and trying new talk groups for him, but I don’t personally spend much time monitoring or chatting on them.

Only the CTCSS tones are numeric values. Because that field also includes DTCSS values as well as words and abbreviations “Unlisted”, “No Tone”, “Hz”, “DPL”, etc, the field is alphabetical text field. But you could run a report and handle the extract however you wanted.

Since I have ignored some people I seldom have a reason to report any posts. The exception is when people have troubles that only Rich can solve. I do report those. I’ll try to remember the next time I report a post.

I do!! I was born in 55. I was tempted to say I bought 10 cent comics but I couldn’t remember for sure.