SteveShannon

Scammers count on that level of fear to avoid getting caught.

Exactly.

I think several of us are waiting to see exactly what really happened. I haven’t heard of the FCC emailing someone telling them to shut down a repeater before. This sounds more like someone running a scam. You did nothing wrong.

Where would the additional pairs come from? Any petition would have to solve that.

I don’t use repeater networking on gmrs, but I know that for DMR each node has its own ID number. There are different networks with Brandmeister being the largest by far. But in order to prevent conflicts all of the ID numbers are doled out by a single clearinghouse. So my brandmeister ID isn’t a duplicate of one on MARC or Western States DMR network. That also allows gateways between the different networks.

Thank you. How does a person selectively connect to another node? DTMF?

Okay, but how does it apply to GMRS? Our conversations still cannot be individually routed or muxed. There’s still just one conversation per channel, audible to everyone else within range. How does this benefit us?

Sometimes things are called by different names and it’s easy to miss them. These were called “Side buttons” in the table of contents.

That’s what I have also.

I’m glad you posted this explanation because I thought your other post implied that Randy posts BS. I’m glad to be wrong.

About an hour ago I posted the manual pages showing the instructions.

Start on page 82 of the manual.

No, it’s a forum. Feel free to ask. If it’s something that would have been easily found in the owner’s manual you should be prepared to be teased.

No, I haven’t. Personally I wouldn’t use something like that. I was just trying to respond to your query. I would find or make an internal coupler that would fit between two tubes like scaffolding couplers. I use a Spiderbeam 12 meter telescoping fiberglass mast to hold up my efhw antenna wire. I also have four sticks of chain link fence top rail that have a swaged end that fits into the next. I would only put a couple together rather than try to stack all four. They will be used for vhf antennas.

You missed the previous post which explains the voltage limitations of the duplexer (??) I don’t understand the limit. The duplexers I’m aware of are not powered.

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Someone using the built in scrambler in some inexpensive radios will sound like they’re on the wrong sideband. It’s really just inverted frequencies.

That’s just how it works. You copy the url from the browser address and you paste it in your post. Then you click on it and you click on the next page arrow to follow it to page 3. I could have used this link instead: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service/amateur-call-sign-systems#vanity-call-signs

No. Existing networks have either primitive routing (everyone goes for the ride) or no routing. It’s more like a one to many relationship.

You’re right. I stand corrected. From page 3: Note: You cannot receive a vanity call sign from a call sign group for which your operator class is not eligible. For example, if you are operator class T (technician), you can only receive call signs from groups C & D. https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service/amateur-call-sign-systems#:~:text=There are up to three,)______" will be dismissed.

I’m not a member so I don’t know if you are required to request access after joining the club and receiving the tones, but I would not expect that to be the issue. It sounds like you’re on the right channel and you’ve double checked the tone. The only thing left that I know of is as you mentioned in your original post, getting closer. Once you are closer, when you hear traffic, try listening on the input frequency and scan for the input tone.

It seems obvious that the “Audio Aggregator” combines audio from multiple sources so a person can hear them using a single set of headphones and enables them to route other audio elsewhere, but there’s no telling what the OP’s point is, whether they have a question or are just using the forum as a documentation archive.

Yeah, it sounds like he doesn’t understand how to set up his spam blocker and whitelist notifications from my GMRS.com.

Happy Father’s Day to you as well. First, are you on a repeater channel? You didn’t say what channel you’re on. On all GMRS radios there are the simplex channels 15 - 22 and there are the repeater channels which are numbered 23 - 30 or something like RP15 - RP22. The repeater channels and the simplex channels receive on the same frequencies, which is in the 462 MHz range. So, channel 15 receives on exactly the same frequency as 23 (or RP15), 16 receives on the same frequency as 24 (RP16), etc. The difference is that the repeater channels transmit at a frequency that is usually 5.000 MHz higher than the simplex channel. So channel 15 receives and transmits on 462.550 MHz, channel 23 (RP15) transmits on 467.550 MHz. Because you mentioned that you’re able to receive just fine, it could be that you’re transmitting on the simplex channel, which would never wake up the receiver.

Here’s why it’s important: SWR is calculated based on the relationship between forward power and reflected power. Higher SWR by definition means higher reflected power relative to the forward power. When you measure it at the radio, you’re seeing all of the forward power, but you’re only seeing some of reflected power. So, measured at the radio you always see a lower SWR. One of my RigExpert analyzers has Bluetooth so we connected it directly to ann antenna before raising the antenna. We could see that SWR was 1.6:1. Measuring at the radio end of the cable using the same analyzer the SWR was 1.1:1. That was with 50 feet of M&P UltraFlex 10, which is as good as LMR 400. It was also at 2 meters where the cable performs even better than on GMRS.