SteveShannon

Tonkatoy only made two posts nearly six years ago and hasn’t been online here since 2022.

Did you try right clicking on the executable and selecting “run in compatibility mode”? Also, you can type alt+prt SCR or ctrl+prt SCR to take screenshots rather than using a camera.

No taxation without representation!

Off road -> 16 On road-> 19 (by Queen decree) Those of us who live near or above “Line A” reserve the right to disregard His Majesty the Queen.

No, if it’s a ground plane antenna it needs to couple to either the roof, hood, or trunk lid somehow (or a sheet of conductive material of some type), otherwise it will not receive well. But it can do so capacitively even through a layer of paint or thin plastic or rubber. I’m saying it doesn’t need to be an DC electrical connection that can be verified with an ohmmeter. Because it’s RF a layer of paint isn’t an impediment. Nobody sands off the paint to use a magnetic base, right?

The traditional use of the word “skip” applies to hf radio signals bouncing off the ionosphere. UHF doesn’t do that, but it does propagate long distances sometimes when there’s a temperature inversion which causes tropospheric propagation, also called tropospheric ducting.

I don’t see how my question strikes you as a negative comment. I was just surprised to hear you suggest 11 meters needed more users when many users of GMRS are upset about congestion.

Is CB underutilized?

It is simply not necessary to have DC continuity between an antenna base and the body of the vehicle. Magnetic bases have no DC continuity to the roof and work just fine. The RF connection is easily made through paint. However, with that said, an intermittent electrical connection between car body parts and an antenna base can cause static interference. You will see people bonding car parts together using short braided jumpers in an effort to minimize noise.

It’s not as simple as that. Some of the thirty GMRS frequencies listed in four different groups have specific limitations for power and bandwidth. The easiest way to ensure you comply is to purchase a radio that has been certified for GMRS. A better way to think of this is to understand that your license doesn’t license you to use specific frequencies, but rather to use certified GMRS radios. There are amateur radios that are not certified but allow you to transmit on GMRS frequencies. It’s highly unlikely you would be cited; almost nobody ever has been. I don’t know if the UV-82 is one. Personally I buy GMRS radios for GMRS. It’s just easier. And I buy amateur radios for amateur radio use. That way I don’t even need to think about it. If someone tells me to use channel 20, I know what exactly they mean. Repeater channels only need CTCSS or DCS tones added because they’re already programmed.

§ 95.1763 GMRS channels. The GMRS is allotted 30 channels—16 main channels and 14 interstitial channels. GMRS stations may transmit on any of the channels as indicated below. (a) 462 MHz main channels. Only mobile, hand-held portable, repeater, base and fixed stations may transmit on these 8 channels. The channel center frequencies are: 462.5500, 462.5750, 462.6000, 462.6250, 462.6500, 462.6750, 462.7000, and 462.7250 MHz. (b) 462 MHz interstitial channels. Only mobile, hand-held portable and base stations may transmit on these 7 channels. The channel center frequencies are: 462.5625, 462.5875, 462.6125, 462.6375, 462.6625, 462.6875, and 462.7125 MHz. (c) 467 MHz main channels. Only mobile, hand-held portable, control and fixed stations may transmit on these 8 channels. Mobile, hand-held portable and control stations may transmit on these channels only when communicating through a repeater station or making brief test transmissions in accordance with § 95.319(c). The channel center frequencies are: 467.5500, 467.5750, 467.6000, 467.6250, 467.6500, 467.6750, 467.7000, and 467.7250 MHz. (d) 467 MHz interstitial channels. Only hand-held portable units may transmit on these 7 channels. The channel center frequencies are: 467.5625, 467.5875, 467.6125, 467.6375, 467.6625, 467.6875, and 467.7125 MHz.

I agree there’s nothing wrong with narrowband but what does your part 90 license have to do with your GMRS repeater?

Agreed, but the fact that radios may not be certified for GMRS if they are easily used for amateur radio, removes commercial motivation for producing an amateur/GMRS antenna. “No GMRS transmitter will be certified for use in the GMRS if it is equipped with the capabilities to operate in services that do not require equipment certification, such as the Amateur Radio Service.”

He often is!!

That looks right.

That’s correct but you must also send the correct CTCSS tone or DCS code in order for the repeater to pass what it receives to the transmitter.

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.

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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.