SteveShannon

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.

Get a good temperature controlled soldering station. I like Weller, but lots of people use Hako also. Second, get someone who knows what they’re doing to show you the basics (or watch YouTube videos). Third, don’t be stingy on using flux.

Done

I was always interested in electronics but before going back to college to become an engineer I spent eight years as a retail jeweler. Soldering small components while wearing my eye loupe was part of the job. That worked well for me in my early engineering career because the company I worked for needed surface mount prototypes and I could do them in-house.

Thanks to @OffRoaderX for the suggestion! Here are the steps necessary to add a user to your “ignored users” list. First, click your screen name in the upper right hand corner. A drop down dialogue appears. Right next to the bottom it says “Ignored Users”. Click on “Ignored Users”. You’ll see a dialogue asking you to enter a member’s name to your ignore list. Start typing the screen name they use. You’ll see a listing of usernames that match what you’ve typed. Select the name from the list for the user you wish to ignore. Select the check boxes that define what you wish to ignore. If you never want to see their posts, check “posts”. If you want to block messages from them check “messages”. If you don’t want to be notified when they mention you, check “mentions”. And finally, if you just don’t want to see their signature at the bottom of every one of their posts, check signature. For example it makes sense to check signature but not posts if their signature bugs you for some reason. It really doesn’t make sense to select signature when you’re going to be blocking their posts, but that’s the default. Then click the blue button that says “Add User”: You’ll get a quick confirmation message saying you added the user to your ignore list: It’s that easy.

Look at the selections you made for ignoring him. It’s possible not all are checked.

Listening with no RX tones will allow you to hear traffic. The call sign will tell you the licensee and their mailing address so you can send a snail mail request. What’s the call sign?

That is very cool! Congratulations! You’ll hear conversations on the ham bands like that too, but you’ll have a LOT more places to go to get away from them.