SteveShannon

That’s available to anyone at the fcc website.

socalgmrs’s GMRS callsign is WRXP381. Here’s a website that will tell you whether a GMRS licensee is also a ham: https://gmrs.app Feel free to try it with my call signs: WROM258 is my GMRS call sign. AI7KS is my ham sign. Virgo is my astrology sign.

There are no FRS channels that are not also GMRS channels. GMRS and FRS use exactly the same first 22 channels. There are also eight channels, referred to as the 467 MHz Main Channels in the regulations, which are available in GMRS only to transmit to a repeater.

There’s nothing wrong with you talking to people using your GMRS radio. Have fun and welcome to the forum.

What are you talking about? If you’re using an FRS radio you don’t need to use a call sign. If you’re using a GMRS radio you are required to. There are no FRS only frequencies.

Power has nothing to do with the ability to transmit and receive on different frequencies. That’s strictly programming. I don’t know why the GXT100s are incapable of transmitting and receiving on different frequencies.

If you don’t have many channels to add the free software is okay. Unfortunately it doesn’t allow import, export, or copy/cut and paste. Starting with the factory software makes sense. You will know if you outgrow it. Maybe by then Chirp will include it.

Page 32 of the manual tells which menus to use to set the transmitting CTCSS or DCS. Menu 8 or 9, depending on which you need.

I’m seriously curious. Obviously you’re not here to ask for help, you inject negativity into the threads started by people who actually do help, and you make zero effort to get along with people socially. So, why are you here, Devin? Do you actually like the negative attention you receive? Is it somehow better than no attention at all?

Excellent post!!! Maybe the best first post by a new member! Welcome to the forums!

Hi Bill, Don’t feel like you have to apologize for that! RT Systems is an American company that has developed an entire series of programming software and cables for ham and GMRS radios. https://www.rtsystemsinc.com

I can understand how that would be confusing. With amateur radio and commercial radio, UHF can have either a plus or minus offset (I’ll clarify that in my previous comment). In GMRS however the FCC has established specific channels and groups of channels. The 467 MHz Main channels are for transmitting to repeaters. Repeaters may only transmit on the 462 MHz Main channels. Other radio types may also use the 462 Main channels for simplex communications.

Bullshit. We’ve had to correct your fallacious claims many times. This is only true in certain rare situations, like from the hill overlooking a massive desert between you and Vegas. Most people just won’t get that kind of distance before their signal is blocked by the earth’s curvature and terrain. Why lie? Does it make you feel better about yourself?

For GMRS, the usual offset (it’s not in the rules, but it is the common practice) is to transmit to the repeater 5.000 MHz above the frequency the repeater transmits on. The rules require that you transmit to a GMRS repeater on one of the eight 467 MHz Main Channels and that the repeater transmit on one of the 462 MHz Main Channels. To make things easy the programming for certified radios always uses a 5.000 MHz offset. So the pair you program in a radio that uses the repeater will receive on 462.675 MHz and transmit on 467.675 MHz. So the repeater must receive on the 467 frequency and must transmit on 462 MHz. For a user radio you MUST program the correct transmit tone, in your case 123.0 Hz. Programming a receive tone is optional. Leaving it empty will allow you to hear everything on that frequency and might help you troubleshoot. For the repeater you program both if that’s what you want. If you don’t program a receive tone on the repeater anyone will be able to activate it. The 0.600 MHz offset is standard for VHF radios, such as 2 meter ham bands. Welcome, @WRTQ263! One really nice feature of the forum is the ability to add people to your ignore list.

Well, no, again. The rules do not require that the offset be +5 MHz. They only require that the repeater receive on the 467 MHz main channels and transmit on the 462 MHz main channels. But 5.000 MHz is the usual offset. Some places do not use that offset in order to avoid interference, typically maritime locations. Channels 15-22 don’t have an offset at all. They are the simplex channels. The channels above 22 are sometimes names RP15-RP22, but they are 23-30 in a numbered list. You keep jumping new people about the rules when you obviously don’t understand them. Maybe you should go back and read them before you are a complete asshole to someone on their first post. That’s why you’re the most ignored person on the forum.

It’s actually fine according to the rules.

Nice job! I really appreciate the fact that you didn’t get bogged down in reporting the decimal place for SWR. Way too many people look at 1.59:1 vs 1.51:1 and think it’s meaningful. The way you did it is good enough.

Welcome!

Welcome, @CaptainSarcastic! You’ll fit in very well!

Well, you’re right about that. @WSGZ436 go ahead and chat. Dipshit has no authority.

But I call “cq xyl only”

Also disable VOX and set the TOT to something reasonable. Then other people on the road will only hear you for a limited time. I’ve heard idiots transmit household noise for hours because they used VOX.

Now that I am thinking about it, and because this discussion seems to irritate @Socalgmrs, hysteresis in a PTT switch is nice. The old Shure mikes had nice hysteresis. Hysteresis makes it easier to hold the button down and it gives decent tactile feedback.

I haven’t thought about it. I could see either too light or too heavy being objectionable, but none of the radios I have bother me.

yin to yang?