SteveShannon

WHAT??????? You only brought 12 power rings for all of us?????
 
Happy Easter everyone.

Happy Easter, Gil!

Crap, there’s 30 of us? I only brought a dozen doughnuts. Happy Easter everyone! ☕️

There's always that "one guy" that walks into the room and instantly puts out that "I'm here to complain" vibe. No doubt he could create a website that would be much better 😄
 
Sheesh
 
 
 
 

On any given day there may be many posts.  I’ve seen as many as ten pages of online users (including a bunch of guests) at any one time. Easter weekend might not be typical. If you are only seeing older posts you are doing something wrong.  If you spent $50 to “unlock your computer from windows” you are doing something wrong. This site pays for itself by including advertising, but you can purchase levels of membership that completely block all advertising.
It’s not unheard of for people to do something wrong, but it’s fairly stupid to blame everyone but yourself. There are some very smart people on this site who would be willing to help you but you kind of burned that bridge before you crossed it.
Yes, you appear to be lost.

The saying "never bite the hand that feeds you" definitely fits here.
A lot of people over there like to give long and convoluted replies trying to show their superior intellect while proving just the opposite. I made a reply on radio reference one time and kept things as simple as possible so anyone could understand the answer and quite a few jumped on me for it.

EDIT: I didn't read onto the next page to see you answered my question haha.

As I mentioned on my last post (just above your reply) that I downloaded a copy last night and the restriction notice is no longer there.

Can you post a screen-grab of what channel 26 looks like either through the ODMaster app or Chirp, if you're using it? That'd be the simplest way to actually see what the radio is trying to do.

i have a Harbor Freight Telescoping flag pole mounted on my 5th wheel trailer (rear ladder mounted) that i slide a home brew Copper J-Pole with 3D printed clamps. This set up is for a portable repeater when camping.   Fully extended im getting about 20-25' and with no obstructions around me i get pretty decent coverage.  It doesn't take much to hamper the signal, a few trees will kill the signal quality.  You should see the same type results.  

The site guidelines (see number 8 ) ask that tones not be posted outside of the private area and tones that are not listed need to be obtained from the owner of that repeater on the repeater map site of mygmrs. You’ll need to send a request to the owner if the repeater isn’t open and tones are not posted. 

It appeared on mine from 2021, but as of a few months ago if you redownload it, it wasn’t appearing on people’s licenses. There was a thread about it a few months ago. 
Merely reprinting a license that you downloaded a couple years ago would not reflect the change. 
Here’s the thread:

 

This really isn’t ambiguous:
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.

This is exactly right. Increasing the power results in more ERP, you never completely make up for the losses. And increasing the power does nothing for reception. 

I just downloaded a copy and yes the restrictions are no longer on the license.

No not yet.  Either Tuesday or Friday I think I'll be doing the swap out.  Borrowing a bucket truck and I will be swapping out the antenna from a generic 7.2dBi to the Comet CA712EFC and the 25' run of M&P Hyperflex 13 to 1/2" Heliax.  Also going to be putting up some guy wires because I'm always worried when the wind whips up.  I have 15' of mast with a 5' antenna and now I'll be putting a 10' antenna up there so more torque.  And I don't want to go through all that work only to have it blown down.
Not sure what will become of that cable.  Not even sure that's the problem, could be the antenna itself.

This really isn’t ambiguous:
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.

This really isn’t ambiguous:
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.

This really isn’t ambiguous:
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.

This really isn’t ambiguous:
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.

For GMRS, the FCC allows plain language voice communications:
95.1731 Permissible GMRS uses.
The operator of a GMRS station may use that station for two-way plain language voice communications with other GMRS stations and with FRS units concerning personal or business activities.

Earlier, in the overarching Personal Radio Services definitions (which apply to all of the personal radio services) the FCC tells us what is meant by plain language voice communications:
95.303 
Plain language voice communications. Voice communications without codes or coded messages intended to provide a hidden meaning. Foreign languages and commonly known radio operating words and phrases, such as “ten four” and “roger,” not intended to provide a hidden meaning, are not considered codes or coded messages.
Even with an executive order to establish English as our official language changes to the above rules would need to be made if the government determined that radio communication must be done in English.  Of course legislation could do it, assuming it withstood a constitutional challenge.

Some people have concerns about the mixed metals in the shield of LMR 400 for actual full duplex use.  They claim that the contact points between the two different metals become a semiconductor material that causes problems.  I don’t know whether that’s true or not but one simple solution is to use M&P Broadcom 10 or some other cable that doesn’t use mixed metals in its shield.  The size and performance is almost identical to LMR400 in terms of attenuation but all of the shielding and the center conductor is copper.  They also have even larger cables, such as their 13 mm cable.

Just for the sake of correctness.  It is not + .5 MHz ; it’s + 5.0 MHz. That’s a big difference.
Some repeaters continue to transmit for a short period of time after a person lets up on the PTT. You might be hearing that.

That's what I'm using at home M&P Hyperflex 13.  It's been water infiltrated. 😪

Not exactly true.  In order to pump the same amount of water you need to increase the flow rate through the 1/2" pipe.  As you do this the friction loss increases and eventually regardless of how high the pressure the flow rate will actually decrease.