SteveShannon

I’ve certainly typed similar brain farts. Don’t be embarrassed. But one thing to be aware of is the power attenuation that happens at GMRS frequencies in RG-58A/U. It’s not insignificant as something I wrote recently was corrected.

That’s correct. They are digital codes and the I version has the bits flipped compared to the N version. They are definitely not the same. But DPL and DCS are two different names for the same thing.

Do you receive this annoying noise on all of those channels or just some? If just some, which ones?

All the extra power will really do is shorten your battery life. Your range will not be significantly greater. If you’re buried in vegetation it might help.

Do you have 19 set to AND or OR? Thinking about it, it seems like if it’s set to OR it would unmute whenever the CTCSS setting is satisfied. Try setting it to AND and see what happens.

Look in the manual for something called “squelch tail eliminator”. I don’t have that radio, but some radios have this feature.

He was found:

If you’re transmitting to the repeater while standing next to your wife while she’s listening to her radio, her radio might be desensing as a result of your transmission. That doesn’t explain why others on the repeater don’t hear you. Transmitting with the wrong tone would explain that, but you say you’re hearing the repeater pick up on your wife’s radio. It’s difficult to diagnose for certain but it sounds like a combination of desensing and possibly incorrect tones. Drive closer to the repeater. Separate from your wife (distance not marital status). Don’t give up. It’s not intuitive at first.

Nobody said anything about Spanish speaking. You responded to the post above that specific said Puerto Rico.

I was wrong. After looking more carefully I found this: § 95.931 Permissible CBRS uses. The operator of a CBRS station may use that station to transmit two-way plain language voice communications to other CBRS stations and to other stations that are authorized to transmit on CBRS frequencies. (a) Emergency communications. Any CBRS channel may be used for emergency communications or for traveler assistance. (1) Operators of CBRS stations must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to emergency communications. (2) CBRS Channel 9 may be used only for emergency communications or traveler assistance. It must not be used for any other purpose.

PL-259 is simply the connector, also referred to historically as the UHF connector. The actual cable type should be marked on the jacket of the cable.

Doesn’t exactly say that either. Go back and read Marc Spaz’s excellent summary on one of the first pages. But the most important requirement is this: § 95.1749 GMRS network connection. Operation of a GMRS station with a telephone connection is prohibited, as in § 95.349. GMRS repeater, base and fixed stations, however, may be connected to the public switched network or other networks for the sole purpose of operation by remote control pursuant to § 95.1745. Notice also that mobile and portable radios are not addressed at all.

According to page 60 (labeled 3-6) of this document, it was reserved by the regulations at one time. Since then much has changed. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/47617NCJRS.pdf

You’re correct. The convention of using Channel 9 for emergency purposes is not part of the FCC regulations. What I said above is incorrect. Channel 9 is reserved in regulations. § 95.931 Permissible CBRS uses. The operator of a CBRS station may use that station to transmit two-way plain language voice communications to other CBRS stations and to other stations that are authorized to transmit on CBRS frequencies. (a) Emergency communications. Any CBRS channel may be used for emergency communications or for traveler assistance. (1) Operators of CBRS stations must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to emergency communications. (2) CBRS Channel 9 may be used only for emergency communications or traveler assistance. It must not be used for any other purpose.

Once again, that’s not how regulations work. If it’s not part of the regulations, it cannot be part of a citation, because citations require a reference to the rule that’s being violated.

Here are the official regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95#subpart-D

This doesn’t make sense even from a conspiratorial perspective. Why would a friendly fcc employee throw a life preserver to the repeater owner and then cite the users? Second, show me a regulation that says it’s forbidden to use a repeater that’s linked.

Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

Just say the letters and numbers as if you were spelling in a spelling bee. There’s no “official” protocol. If you decide to speak phonetically my opinion (worth nothing) is that you should use the NATO phonetics. They are designed not to be easily confused. For instance, in your example you use the words sour and double, both of which can be easily confused with other words flower and bubble on a poor connection. The NATO words would be Delta and Sierra and there are no other words in the NATO alphabet that sound similar enough to be confused. But it’s entirely up to you.

That’s true, and unfortunately no, it’s not me. It’s possible it was a relative, but I don’t really know. The effect @pl4tinum was talking about applies to layering mixed metals in the shielding of coaxial cables. True LMR400 has a copper braid over an aluminum foil layer which some people claim forms tiny semiconductor elements at the points where the two “incompatible” metals touch. That’s different from the copper cladding over aluminum on the center conductor, which genuine LMR400 also has, but which nobody I know warns against. Are the deleterious effects of these spontaneous semiconductors real or myth? I don’t know. The warnings also say that these effects only cause an issue when full duplex transmissions are occurring, not the half duplex we do with our base and mobile stations.

As long as it’s only for receive neither the radio nor the FCC will mind. Try it and see.

You’re right and I’m wrong, but there are a lot of pretty good radios that can be programmed using Chirp: https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Supported_Radios

Most users can’t delete your own posts. Maybe premium users can or maybe only those who have risen to a certain level. I can delete my own posts, but I don’t know why.

I bet you already do! Part of what makes Chirp useful, but also sometimes difficult to understand, is that it has to store information for hundreds of different radios in a kind of least-common denominator database. Once you understand that you can program all of those radios.

Adam, We all make mistakes. Don’t be so hard on yourself.