SteveShannon

Thank @OffRoaderX, he made the video.

YouTube, look for videos from the Notarubicon channel. One specifically describes configuring a radio for a repeater.

Mine can, but it’s an older model.

It hadn’t been nullified at the time of the video and banter. The FCC really should have made at least an attempt to announce it.

Portable devices typically are not grounded.

When I worked in Taiwan in 1992 that was something almost everyone there did, pick an anglicized name. It wasn’t done to mislead anyone, but rather to make it easier for English speakers to meet them and remember them. In my opinion there were way too many people who fit the mold of the “Ugly American” who couldn’t or wouldn’t even try to remember how Chinese names work. More than once I heard jerks say “Why can’t they have normal names like us?”

Some radios allow “selective calling” where you can send a code to one specific radio and it will listen while other radios ignore you.

The output power isn’t meaningless, but it has much less of an effect than the antenna height and gain. A 20 watt radio can easily transmit 100 miles if there are no obstructions, but obstructions are common. A fifty watt radio cannot overcome obstructions, but it can power its way through vegetation which might attenuate the signal of a less powerful radio until it cannot be detected. There are lots of threads which discuss which antennas work well and how and where to mount them. And attenuation affects signals in both directions. So, more important than the output power is the cable, the antenna gain, the antenna mounting position, and the antenna height. Personally I use a db20g radio with a Midland MXTA26 antenna on the center of my steel roof using a magnetic mount from Midland.

If you set the mode to “Tone”, the Tone Squelch frequency setting becomes meaningless. Tone mode means your radio doesn’t (or isn’t supposed to) filter on receive. Tone mode is the same as having no receiver tone. If you want the Tone Squelch setting to be effective you must set mode to TSQL. As far as the random offset frequency, when you transmit are you on 467.725 MHz? If so, the offset doesn’t matter. The best way to ensure your radio works with the repeater is to get on the air and test it. The issues above may be things that the chirp developers would explain better than I can.

You assume disposability. I don’t know very many people who buy Midland or Baofeng radios with the idea they’re disposable. While some people do indeed reduce the choice to only price rather than considering features, user interface, performance, and reputation. Considering features certainly doesn’t make a person “borderline delusional and severely mistaken”; it reflects intelligence and thoroughness.

Terri, Again I want to express my appreciation for your calm and thoughtful comments and informative posts in response to curmudgeonliness. Happy Independence Day!

That’s true, the owner and those authorized to use the owner’s call sign, which is limited to the owner’s relatives except in an emergency.

Premium members can run reports and download files that can be used offline.

Yes, they need to be connected together. Surecom makes a couple of controllers (628 and 629) which might work. However, desense frequently occurs when trying to cobble together a repeater from two transceivers and you might want to run the transmitter at low power if you anticipate much use.

Repeaters are required to transmit the call sign at the end of a conversation and every 15 minutes while in use. Most don’t transmit their call every 15 minutes when not in use because that would be annoying to anyone who monitors the repeater. So, after a repeater has been on standby for awhile and someone tries it or kerchunks it, many repeaters will issue their call sign. As far as what inverse and normal means, DCS is a digital code rather than a tone like CTCSS. So it’s really a series of 1s and 0s. For instance 5 is normally 00000101. If you invert it, it’s 11111010. Often, DCS codes are expressed with either an N or an I as part of the code to denote whether it’s Normal or Inverted. If neither is included most of us assume N for Normal.

No, not for most radios. His combination of previous batteries resulted in charging voltages after charge completion, that were too high for the radio.

Thank you for sharing your insider knowledge.

This is the perfect place. I’m glad you’re feeling better and I hope for the best for you.

No it wasn’t. The Q codes started in 1912. QSL started in the 1920s. 10-4 was created in the 1930s.

No, but it might only be the cool people who got the notification.

Either because you have the wrong receive code (better to use none at first) or because your transmitter radio is causing the receiver radio to go deaf, which is called “desense.”

WSHY770 is a GMRS call sign. RadioID only issues DMR IDs to services which allow DMR. DMR is not available on GMRS under normal circumstances. If you have an amateur call sign you can get a DMR ID at RadioID.

So the repeater heard your transmission and gave a call sign.

Try leaving DCS empty on the receive side and make sure you keep the transmitting radio some distance away from the receiving radio.

Then the stupid bastard should respond to their emails.