SteveShannon

I agree, but I think it buys more than it used to. On our road home to Butte from Phoenix this past week quite a few places were advertising for help. At convenience stores the starting wage appears to be $21.00/hour. So $100 worth of stuff is now equivalent to about five hours of work. When I was a sophomore in college (1974), I worked on a farm for $15/day and they were long days. Within a couple years I got a job at an appliance store for $1.25/hour. Compared to what my wages would have purchased then, five hours will buy a much better radio, antenna, and cable than it would have then.

Same thing. Did either of you report it to Rich? I did anyway. I think he’ll forgive me if I’m duplicating your reporting.

Why would you have to pay the tariff on a warranty replacement? Contact customer support. If they want money tell them no.

Welcome!

Cable can detract from the best antenna. It’s guaranteed you’ll have too much attenuation with 50’ of rg8. LMR400 won’t hurt you so much. It’s possible to get a cheap antenna with decent gain. I would get the LMR 400 and shop for a decent inexpensive antenna with gain figures you want. N connectors shouldn’t cost much more and they are more water resistant than UHF connectors, but if you do a good job of waterproofing you can get by with UHF connectors. The losses through uhf or sma vs N connectors aren’t enough to worry about.

That sounds more like they were both set to narrow and the other radios were set to wide.

As in much of life the easiest way to find out is to try it. So, I started to add a repeater and then cancelled after discovering what the drop down list contains. I think they’re self explanatory:

Once you turn on the ability to use repeaters, the Garmin Rino turns off digital data. Last choice on the contact ^. Right after “Add to Emergency Contacts”

You don’t really need an additional app with Apple. You can simply go to a person in your contacts and choose the last option “Share my location”. For the Garmin Rino if you transmit to a repeater or if you select the option not to share your location the radio won’t. The first is required in order to comply with regulations. The second is (as I pointed out earlier) simply an option.

Yes, the Garmin Rino. I don’t know whether the location is stored in memory unless you activate breadcrumbs or create waypoints, but your instantaneous location is live at any given time. But you can tell it not to share your location.

Okay, I reported your issue also.

Okay, check your email to see if you received a password change link. Follow it, bla, bla, bla.

The duplexer is passive. It can’t command a transmission. Presumably you powered off the radio before connecting to the duplexer because the noise generated while connecting it to the antenna port could cause VOX to activate. Second, although the duplexer might filter it all out, I recommend turning off your B channel. You almost have the national calling frequency (146.520 MHz) tuned for both radios. I’ve not built a repeater using two handhelds so I can’t answer your other questions, sorry. But you make me want to try just to learn.

I’ve reported your issue to the admin. He’s the only person who can help. What’s your call sign?

The configuration you pasted definitely has tones set: 67.0 Hz for both encode (TX) and decode (RX). Did you have the same tone set on the UV5R for transmit? If you were transmitting from the UV5R with no tones that would explain why you didn’t hear it

Using compander adds some audio elements that are not always pleasant. There’s almost always some background hiss in audio. That hiss is compressed along with the desired audio at the transmitter and expanded at the receiver. Some refer to the sound as resembling loud breathing or pumping. I started with compander turned on but didn’t like the sound. I have turned it off now.

It’s not really an oversight. The manufacturer simply has to present data for certification that shows adherence to the ERP value as manufactured. Users are required to comply with the regulations but don’t and as we know, the FCC does nothing about it.

Manufacturers could design mobile radios to put out half a watt, but because FRS regulations require handheld radios and because GMRS regulations limit 8-14 to handheld radios, mobile radios could not be certified, even if they complied with the output power requirements.

The allowed channels for FRS in 95.563 do not include the eight repeater input channels. Although it might be possible to program in those channels, it would be a violation of regulations. Of course the FCC never enforces that, but it’s always a good idea to comply.

His request doesn’t make sense. Any GMRS mobile radio will talk to FRS radios except for channels 8-14 which may only be handheld portable units by regulation. GMRS handheld radios can talk on 8-14.

If you broaden your search to “SQG duplexer” you’ll find several hits.

The logical assumption is that there’s are CTCSS tones or DTCSS codes somewhere that you don’t realize are there, either on the FRS radio or on your other friends radios, or the radio is transmitting on frequencies the other radios are not receiving. We can’t really know for sure without more information, such as you posting a screenshot, a chirp file, maybe a device like the SW102 showing the output power and actual frequencies of the transmissions that others are not receiving. But we can speculate a bunch: Bad programming. Bad firmware. Both. But here’s something to try. When it’s transmitting and other people’s radios don’t seem to receive it, put your UV5R into “scan for tones” mode to see if it’s actually sending with a tone that the other radios filter out.

Transmit briefly and move frequently.

This! Absolutely nothing unusual about the results.

The extracts used by this site are not daily. You’ll appear in the live FCC database nearly immediately, but it can actually take three or four days for this site to get the data in an extract and sometimes even longer. That affects other sites as well, such as this one which lets a person know whether a GMRS licensee also has a ham license: https://gmrs.app/?wsir477# The other common thing is that people sometimes supply the wrong call sign. You didn’t, but it definitely happens.