SteveShannon

It's possible to be slightly off from 5.000 MHz and still be well within the rules for GMRS. It's nitpicking, but there's nothing in the rules that specify a 5 MHz offset. What is required is that the repeater input frequencies come from the 467 MHz main channels and that repeaters transmit only on the 462 MHz main channels. But, doing that breaks the repeater channels for all certified 95E radios.

I can understand that, but it really is easy to get a technician license. Then the eight channel limit is a thing of the past.

How are linked GMRS repeaters less cumbersome than ham radio? With eight repeater channels in total, and untrained users operating in panic mode on both the repeaters and on the eight simplex channels that share frequencies with those repeaters, linking GMRS repeaters, except on a prearranged published schedule like an amateur radio sked or net, could be useless. You're better off using personal services for proximate communications and get your news from battery powered receivers capable of tuning HF and the broadcast bands.

Collapsed? If one of my friends who worked for an enforcement group called me and gave me a heads up that might keep me out of an enforcement action, I would not argue. I would simply say “Thanks!” And take their advice. An early warning system is nice to have. Why argue with them?

What did you try? Setting the default program?

Customer Programming Software

The default program to open .KG files was somehow set to Notebook. That’s an easy thing to fix but it doesn’t mean that your radio will be damaged. Right click on a kg file, click on open with, choose the name of the Wouxun CPS, and click on “Always use this program “.

What about it? I guess I don’t understand what you’re having trouble with… What is it that you think has changed?

Why? Always read from the radio first, but if it reads from the radio okay you should be able to write to it.

This! If a person only goes where there’s guaranteed cell service (that’s not overlanding!), and only wants to talk to one person at a time (possibly two) and doesn’t want the convenience of pushing one button, and doesn’t need to monitor others in the party, then cell phones are fine.

That’s because you’re trying to write the wrong frequencies. Most likely you have it configured as a ham radio and you’re trying to write GMRS frequencies to it. Or you’re trying to write the frequencies to the wrong channels, such as a repeater frequency to a simplex channel. Please! Give us information we can use to help you, such as receive frequency, transmit frequency, and which channel you’re trying to write to.

Yes

FCC writes the regulations.

I agree.

I suspect that was just a timing thing. After creating the page on Wikipedia and then coming here and posting a link, Wikipedia probably quarantined it while their bots made sure it was Wikipedia worthy.

Yes. Almost all repeaters have either CTCSS (aka PL) or DTCSS (DPL) to prevent being activated by every random transmission.

A link to the draft Wikipedia page appears at the link. It’s for people who want to learn more about an audio aggregator. Everyone else can easily ignore it. But I don’t really see much use for the Audio Aggregatoron a PC as a way to connect a radio to the internet, when a raspberry pi running allstar or Shari does it easier and with a lot more community support.

Great to finally have you here!

Welcome! Insert “At Last” song!

Our ham radio club will be providing communications for a bike race called Race Around The Pintler in One Day, RATPOD for short, which raises money for Camp Make A Dream. We’ll travel along the course with mobile and handheld radios making sure the racers are safe. By afternoon most of the racers are exhausted. https://www.campdream.org/events/ratpod/

It certainly would not work as a simulcast system or have voting, but is there any reason it couldn’t be reconfigured as separate repeaters?

Are you trying to register using wsci776? Earlier you were trying wsc1776, which is definitely wrong. Call signs are four letters and three numbers.

I would do as @LeoG said, turn off the linking and keep the repeaters up unlinked. Then, with no possible violations present, have a lawyer contact the fcc enforcement department to find out if they sent an email.

How long do you wait for something that might never come.

Except for the last sentence I fully agree. And I admit that the last sentence is a possibility; I just don’t know enough about the situation to suggest it as the motivation.