SteveShannon

It was a nice thing for him to do. He didn’t lecture anyone; he just tried to make it easier for us. 
You’ve been grumbling about things lately. Are you becoming infected with the socalgmrs bug? 😁

I’ll make it easier for you. Here’s the interpretation.  I suspect you’re referring to the part that I underlined:
A GMRS user can expect a communications range of one to twenty-five miles depending on station class, terrain, and repeater use.  GMRS stations cannot be interconnected with the public switched telephone network or any other network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications, but these networks can be used for remote control of repeater stations.  In other words, repeaters may not be linked via the internet—an example of an “other network” in the rules—to extend the range of the communications across a large geographic area.  Linking multiple repeaters to enable a repeater outside the communications range of the handheld or mobile device to retransmit messages violates sections 95.1733(a)(8) and 95.1749 of the Commission’s rules, and potentially other rules in 47 C.F.R.  Repeaters may be connected to the telephone network or other networks only for purposes of remote control of a GMRS station, not for carrying communication signals. 

Au contraire, the rules tell us exactly what a fixed station is and the rules tell us exactly what the limits are.  You just haven’t extrapolated from the rules how you might use one.  Others have described how they could be used.  A pair of fixed stations could be dedicated to provide an intercom between two households such as on a family farm, for example.  Or for telemetry and control. 

Yeah them boofwengs are going to a gold mine 🤣

These are usage limitations.
Fixed station. A station at a fixed location that directly communicates with other fixed stations only.
I have a house in town and a cabin sixteen miles away in the mountains. If I buy two radios and locate one at my house and the other at my cabin and the only thing I do is use the two to communicate to each other, I would argue those are “Fixed stations.” In this usage I am responsible for limiting my output power to 15 watts. That doesn’t mean the transmitter must not have the capability to transmit at a higher power!
Base station. A station at a fixed location that communicates directly with mobile stations and other base stations. 
If I use a more or less permanently located radio, transmitting only on the 462 MHz main (not interstitial) frequencies to talk directly to my friends and neighbors, that is a “base station.” 
Control station. A station at a fixed location that communicates with mobile stations and other control stations through repeater stations, and may also be used to control the operation of repeater stations. 
If I use that same station to talk through a repeater on the 467 MHz frequencies, that is then a “control station.”
Hand-held portable unit. A physically small mobile station that can be operated while being held in the operator's hand.
If I hold a radio with a battery in my hand while I’m using it, that’s a “hand-held portable.”
Mobile station. A station, intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified locations, that communicates directly with base stations and other mobile stations, and with control stations and other mobile stations through repeater stations.
If I mount a radio in my car, that’s a “mobile.”
Finally,
Repeater station. A station in a fixed location used to extend the communications range of mobile stations, hand-held portable units and control stations by receiving their signals on one channel (the input channel) and simultaneously retransmitting these signals on another channel (the output channel), typically with higher transmitting power from a favorable antenna location (typically high above the surrounding terrain).

Au contraire, the rules tell us exactly what a fixed station is and the rules tell us exactly what the limits are.  You just haven’t extrapolated from the rules how you might use one.  Others have described how they could be used.  A pair of fixed stations could be dedicated to provide an intercom between two households such as on a family farm, for example.  Or for telemetry and control. 

Well, it seems that my Motorola XPR7550e also has cold solder joints (in fact 177 radios all from the same batch) near the top of the board. Dreaded issue with many series of radios, with wave soldering being used in production, the top of the board (where the antenna, channel selector, and volume/on/off knob are located) gets the cooler solder joints that fail over time. 
Or, as I put it.....Motorola Planned Obsolescence. Often times, Motorola (and other brands/model) radios end up in auction sites as they have intermittent issues related to their antenna connectors, power and volume settings (radios get bumped "Off" when the potentiometer begins to fail), or channel select issues when worn on the belt and the knobs are rubbed. 
This can often be cold solder joints from manufacture. This is not limited to Motorola (I have seen this with Kenwood as well 5100/5300 series handhelds). The fix is to re-solder the connections if the pots or antenna connector is just loose, to replacement of potentiometers if volume/on/off or channel select is too loose.
3D printing also came in handy as shields can also prevent torque on the top knobs and antenna connection, preventing wear on the circuit board connections that may be prone to poor soldering during manufacture. 
As for Motorola XPR7550e radios, Motorola has repaired them under warranty, or via flat-rate repair if out of warranty.....but will only support them for another three more years (the model was discontinued and replaced by the Motorola R7 series radio), you often get five years of production and five additional years of support. For those buying second hand, buyer beware, or use for negotiation of price. 
Anyone else experience this with their radios (any manufacture), if so, what was the fix?

It's really easy to unlock. Buy the KG-UV980P instead. Same basic radio, HAM version, Chirp unlocks it to transmit GMRS. Contrary to one persons opinion, these are solid radios (the 1000 or the 980P), they perform very well, sounds great on TX/RX.
No you can't just put the 980P config on a 1000, that wont "unlock" the 1000 because as it's been said, the 1000 has additional firmware burned into the thing to prevent out of GMRS bands/power levels/offsets etc. As it should as a part 95 certified radio.

It goes on far too long for a very simple thing. I’d rather link to it than repeat it. 😂

May God bless and comfort your joints and spine. Thank you for your service!
Best Regards!

“Fixed station. A station at a fixed location that directly communicates with other fixed stations only.”
Here is an entire thread on the subject.
a double post for your double post. 😉☕️

That's why I use a lot of commercial LMR radios. Many of the older Kenwood UHF models have Part 95 certification. Being freely programmable you do have to watch what you're doing when setting one up.
This one I carry around often. It's the "Type 1" UHF model, which covers the GMRS band, listed at the bottom of the brochure linked to at the link below.
https://forums.mygmrs.com/gallery/image/263-tk-3170jpg/?context=new
 
TK-3170 Grant.pdf

These are usage limitations.
Fixed station. A station at a fixed location that directly communicates with other fixed stations only.
I have a house in town and a cabin sixteen miles away in the mountains. If I buy two radios and locate one at my house and the other at my cabin and the only thing I do is use the two to communicate to each other, I would argue those are “Fixed stations.” In this usage I am responsible for limiting my output power to 15 watts. That doesn’t mean the transmitter must not have the capability to transmit at a higher power!
Base station. A station at a fixed location that communicates directly with mobile stations and other base stations. 
If I use a more or less permanently located radio, transmitting only on the 462 MHz main (not interstitial) frequencies to talk directly to my friends and neighbors, that is a “base station.” 
Control station. A station at a fixed location that communicates with mobile stations and other control stations through repeater stations, and may also be used to control the operation of repeater stations. 
If I use that same station to talk through a repeater on the 467 MHz frequencies, that is then a “control station.”
Hand-held portable unit. A physically small mobile station that can be operated while being held in the operator's hand.
If I hold a radio with a battery in my hand while I’m using it, that’s a “hand-held portable.”
Mobile station. A station, intended to be used while in motion or during halts at unspecified locations, that communicates directly with base stations and other mobile stations, and with control stations and other mobile stations through repeater stations.
If I mount a radio in my car, that’s a “mobile.”
Finally,
Repeater station. A station in a fixed location used to extend the communications range of mobile stations, hand-held portable units and control stations by receiving their signals on one channel (the input channel) and simultaneously retransmitting these signals on another channel (the output channel), typically with higher transmitting power from a favorable antenna location (typically high above the surrounding terrain).

Nor should anybody post the details about your repeater here for you. If you become a member you can do it yourself.  That also enables the mechanism people can use to contact you with questions or to notify you of problems.

I recommend that you add @Socalgmrs to your “ignore list”.  Life gets better.  
Personally I prefer to have a link to the CFR page on the internet rather than capturing a point in time with PDFs:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95

Yes I have rucked plenty. I was both airborne and air assault qualified, assigned to airborne units. And when my assigned weapon was not the M60, then I would get assigned to carry the PRC-77 radio. So yes I know a thing or two about rucking extra weight.
Now go strap on a 75-80 pound ruck sack, carry the M60 machine gun with 1000-1500 rounds of ammunition along with your main and backup parachute before you say anything else about how I supposedly don't know anything about carrying weight.
I was also a combat engineer so I carried even more stuff than the average infantryman. And I have done so in combat on a few occasions.
Let's break down the weight
infantryman ruck -70 pounds combat engineer ruck - 75-80 pounds Main and reserve parachutes - 53 pounds. M60 machine gun unloaded - 23 pounds 500 rounds of spare ammo - 35 pounds Those weights didn't even include any explosives or mines I also had to carry. 
You showed your rear again by assuming that I don't have any experience rucking heavy weights. And we all know what assume actually means.

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Your group should invest in radios on a service that allows encryption. 

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Hello Steve, 462.6875 is channel 6 not 8. One thought is the radio may have an issue programming it in the wrong position if it is one of the initial 22 channels but I'm not sure as I don't program mine out of sequence. Usually the repeaters will be programmed into channels 23-30, 31-38 and so on.
The fact that you got the others to work though makes me question the PL tone. Not all radios have the same number of tones. Retevis CTCSS #2 is 69.3 while Motorola is 71.9 so you may have the wrong tone programmed.  So you may want to check that. How are you programming your radio? Direct? Using Chirp or possibly Retevis software? Can you show us a screen shot of the program? 
Edit: On second thought the fact you are getting the beeping has me back to the wrong frequency idea. That's usually what that indicates. This may or may not be do to the position it's been put in. 
 
Edit #2: please see @amaff and @WRYZ926 responses for correct answer.

And there ya go with the negativity yet again.
@WRVK513 If you want an actual Part 95 certified radio then yes the firmware will be locked. And this goes for pretty much all Part 95 certified consumer grade radios.
We know plenty of people use non certified amateur band radios that have been unlocked/Mars modded on GMRS, but those radios are not Part 95 certified. 
And if you don't want a locked down radio then look else where.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a portable GMRS setup that will put out 20-50 watts. I like using 10 AH or 12AH lipo4 batteries for 20 watt or less radios. Most 10 AH lipo4 are the same size as the batteries in computer battery backup systems. The lipo4 batteries are quite a bit lighter.
I like the Redodo brand of lipo4 batteries when it comes to 50 AH or 100 AH batteries. A group 24 lipo4 batterie will be half the weight of a standard group 24 lead acid deep cycle battery.
And just ignore Negative Nancy with his negative waves.

It was a nice thing for him to do. He didn’t lecture anyone; he just tried to make it easier for us. 
You’ve been grumbling about things lately. Are you becoming infected with the socalgmrs bug? 😁

It was a nice thing for him to do. He didn’t lecture anyone; he just tried to make it easier for us. 
You’ve been grumbling about things lately. Are you becoming infected with the socalgmrs bug? 😁

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