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  2. How to Make This Group Better for You?

    in General Conversations Related to NOVA GMRS

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    32 minutes ago, marcspaz said:

     

    Great feedback! I like it. We'll have to see if we can hammer out so.e details at dinner this weekend. Mike W will be there. Since he owns most of the repeaters in DC and Northern Virginia, as long as he's good with us doing it, we should be able to get that stuff going. Assuming the group is interested. 

    I think incorporating the trail rides is a great activity! Inclusive with a variety of ride difficulties and an excellent get out their and explore kind of activity. Good cross over of interesting and club populations. 

  3. How to Make This Group Better for You?

    in General Conversations Related to NOVA GMRS

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    On 9/5/2023 at 10:12 AM, marcspaz said:

    Question... what can we do to make this group better for you? We have a lot of talented people who love to help others. I would love to hear ideas on how we can improve.

     

    I was thinking about training classes (in person and virtual), radio install parties, gear reviews, weekly tips on fine tuning your setup, etc.

     

    Does any of that sound interesting? Also, please make your own recommendations. I definitely want to hear from you all.

     

    Thanks,

    Spaz

    BLUF: Explore purposeful uses of the local repeaters. 
     

    - real world field exercise simulating limited operating conditions. For example, and this is just an example, we could simulate the most convenient repeater is down and on the fly programming of an ht is required to make contact with a more limited reach repeater to get directions to the dinner spot for the evening.

    Another example, follow the poker run concept and have checkins on a designated route - get yourself from DC to Winchester maintaining comms along the various repeaters. 

    The reddish knob trip - making distant contacts and seeing what these things can do. Perfect! 

     

    - standard periodic monitored check-in time slots so that you can try out the antenna, new radio, etc. I understand there is adversity to mimicking ham stuff like nets but this would help and lot of newbie and tinkerers play with they toys without having to endlessly keechunk or randomly call for a radio check and rolling the dice with what you get back.

     

    _Just some thoughts - RIVRRAT 

  16. GMRS/FRS On the Outer Banks (OBX)

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, gortex2 said:

    Was out there last summer for a weekend. Had my mobile on the entire time and never heard a peep. When I went back to the mainland on the ferry there was one group of cars talking on ch1 waiting on the ferry. 

    Same experience for me. Heard nothing - from Ocean City (MD) all the way down to KDH .  I see on repeater book there is a repeater down by Emerald Isle.  

  17. Setting up Zello

    in Technical Discussion

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    On 4/21/2023 at 12:50 PM, Sshannon said:

    If restarting the Zella app on the phone allows it to work again it could be a memory leak or a buffer filling up.

    Yup - my guess is it's something with the phone itself. I'm kinda knee-deep in the same exercise. I did notice with mine a few days ago that 'notifications' would throw the zello connection off. Shut down what I could in the old phone's setting's and limited to running zello - we shall see. When it works, it works great lol 

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