SteveShannon

Welcome!

If you haven’t seen it, HamStudy.org is a great way to interactively study in a way that helps you understand the questions and answers. It’s free to use their website and inexpensive to buy their app for your phone so you can study almost anywhere.

Yes, a good mobile antenna would usually increase your range, but it all depends on what’s limiting your range in the first place. But it is definitely better than simply using a handheld with its rubber duck antenna inside of your vehicle.

Welcome, @Sparks46! You might find that GMRS isn’t enough and that you would like to become a ham like your grandfather. Many of us here enjoy both GMRS and ham radio.

It happens to my friend when I transmit on 2 meters from my FT5D handheld.

I use Win 7 with Chrome and Norton on my ham computer but my everything else computer uses Win 10.

I have two db20g radios and neither one exhibits that behavior, but they are both nearly two years old. A friend bought one recently and his hangs open like you described. I’ll let him know that he’s not alone.

Do you mean you want to understand what a talk group is? A talk group is simply an ID number. It can be used as an individual ID or used to allow people to share in a conversation as part of a group. They can be very wide or very narrow.

Try a different browser.

Then no.

I believe it. Long ago companies and organizations could get a GMRS license that covered their employees/members. Those licenses are grandfathered but if allowed to expire that’s it. No new organizations can obtain that kind of license. Nor may government entities. Now only individuals may become licensed.

It’s not a preference that every person who isn’t a relative be individually licensed; it’s a requirement.

Is this the ‘cover’ page you see? If so, just scroll down.

No, I’m saying they don’t result in a geographic disparity. I agree that to a person far from either line the rule is irrelevant. Unless they travel

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-2

Not really. We’re allowed to operate West of Line C which is in Alaska, or South of Line A which is in the continental United States.

You might not be sending the tone needed to open the repeater, or You might be transmitting on one of the simplex channels rather than the corresponding repeater channel, or You’re transmitting with 5 watts and a rubber duck antenna from your driveway and transmissions of the people you are hearing are being retransmitted at 50 watts by a repeater from a high gain antenna that’s 300 feet in the air, or All of the above.

There’s something that some people do when testing to see if they are on a repeater. It’s called “kerchunking” and it simply refers to clicking the PTT without saying anything, which caused the mechanical transmit/receive relay in older equipment to make a clack-clack or kerchunk sound. Most repeater owners (and many people who monitor the repeater during the day don’t appreciate that, so this owner is gently urging people to identify themselves rather than simply kerchunking. So, simply say “WSEZ526 testing”.

It’s not even possible. They are not licensees. You are authorizing them to use your stations and you are required to have them identify according to the rules Marc mentioned earlier. You are entirely liable for them following the rules.

Most do, it’s sometimes called “cross”, but if you just turn off the receiving tone you don’t need to do a split.

Turn off all tones on the repeater and try again.

Here are the actual regulations: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-96

Do you have a link?

Drats!

Yes, the DMR radio was an Alinco, but Anytone inside. The DMR Calculator is under the Settings menu. But now that I’ve used OpenGD77/UV380 firmware on a radio, I probably won’t recommend anything else to anyone who wants to use DMR. I’ll stop hijacking this thread now.