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Robert - Welcome to MyGMRS Forum... nice to have you with us. Your M1225 might be used for receive only on your Clark County EMS patch on 460.62500. As you know, most everything in UHF for State Operations is P-25, now, but there are a few Interoperability UHF channels in FM narrowband that might be used locally between agencies. Those would be RECEIVE frequencies of 453.21250, 453.46250, 453.71250, and 453.86250. These are interagency calling and tactical frequencies. Good luck with your project.

While some science exists to predict long range snowfall and temperature patterns with Jet Stream movements, in our area we rely on observing the winter coats of white tail deer and wolves. This autumn, the coats are coming in very thick and dark colored on both species. This is nature's way of protecting the deer and wolves from harsh low temperatures as well as providing a little warmth with sun energy being absorbed by the darker colored coats. This phenomena is very reliable and during the 2013-14 winter in the Upper Midwest, these observations in September were the precursor to an extremely cold winter and over 180 inches of total season snowfall. We are anticipating more of the same this season. Regardless of the junk science used by environmental activists, regional temperature trends come from the fact that we are still coming out of the last ice age some 16,000 years ago. Temperatures will warm slowly after an ice age and while the activists use short term records for their catastrophic warnings, the rest of us use long term geological and fossil records dating back roughly 3.5 million years. The earth has gone through these cooling and warming cycles many thousands of times and the current cycle is no exception. Regional variations will exist, but you will not hear about the cold areas on earth from activists - only reports from those locations that have small statistical upward changes. In the upper Midwest, for instance, our region had only one day this past summer with a temperature above 88 degrees. We own one 8000 BTU window air conditioner and did not install it at all this year because of the cool summer. The Jet Stream pattern for the 2014 Hurricane Season thus far has been producing very high velocity upper level shear ( winds that tear thundertsorm tops apart ) so Tropical Systems can not survive long enough to get to Major Category Hurricanes very often, and those storms that do form are short lived because they are kicked to the north from their origins in the central Atlantic this time of the year and travel over cooler waters so their 'furnace' can not draw energy from the sea surface thermally. We are getting to a point in the season where more activity in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico can be expected, however with upper level shear as it is, we are not expecting rapid development in general terms. There is always a chance that conditions in the upper levels will calm with high pressure and a low level storm may form as low pressure moves in. This year, those will be a bit rare... not impossible, but statistically a low probability as compared to a weak Jet Stream shear as we saw about a decade ago along with frequent high intensity Hurricanes.. TSRC is running computer modeling daily on all possibilities and will post in the Weather area if needed.

Saturday, 20 September Update: The National Hurricane Center has stopped issuing advisories on the remnants of Named Storm Edouard. As I mentioned earlier, the Atlantic High might surround the storm on 3 sides with dry air. That is exactly what happened overnight. While there is still a small area of disturbed surface weather, it has no chance to redevelop in the next week. Some of the residual moisture from the storm may get picked up by Invest 95-L as that disturbance moves westerly from the African coast. We are monitoring 95-L but the environment that it will be passing through for the next several days is not good for development and the back side of the same Atlantic high pressure area that tore Edouard apart aloft will be moving 95-L northward in just a couple days toward Europe. We are seeing no other Tropical Origin concerns at this time..

Our own TSRC tracking models have Edouard continuing in a generally southeasterly direction in roughly 30 hours. There is an Atlantic high pressure area with its clockwise wind patterns getting close. However, timing is critical. If the high gets past the rotational center of Edouard before it starts it's south track, Edouard will end up with dry air on three sides and this will prevent the storm from convecting and gaining strength again. If the high's easterly movement slows and it picks up Edouard on it's southeastern quadrant, Edouard will be in a very friendly location to be pushed westward again into warm surface waters and higher humidities aloft. This still doesn't mean that it will have a US coastal involvement, because IF the bottom of the high pressure area does start moving Edouard westerly, the southwestern quadrant of the high will kick it back to the north after approximately 5 to 7 days and it will follow it's original track east of Bermuda. That being said, there is another feature coming off the west coast of Senegal, west Africa, referred to as Invest 95-L. One of the models from a European tracking agency is showing a potential critical timing merge between Edouard and this new 95-L. IF that happens, all bets are off, because there are no current datapoints to calculate that event 8 to 11 days out.... just too many variables to get a reliable projection. All I can say is to monitor NHC and our TSRC unofficial advisories starting the middle of next week. We will have a handle on it much better by then. My gut feeling is that Edouard will get picked up by the bottom of the high and get kicked back north after a week or so. BUT, stay tuned...

Keep it going - there are more puns out there for this one...LOL...

The more systems in GMRS service that are operational the better communications will be in a regional or even national emergency. When public safety systems start failing because of poor planning and lack of interoperability, GMRS systems will shine !

If they get any worse, it might be a good idea to be UNDER your radio using the metal cabinet as a hat...

I would just like to add one comment to this "Thank You" thread - The staff has yet to have to use ANY of our moderation tools to dole out discipline to any member. This forum is one of the very few that I have moderated or administered, since the late 1970's, that has been self-regulating between members. That is very rare these days and once again, on behalf of Rich, William and myself, thany you all for making this forum the great success that it has become.

It is usually best if a person does research to find an owner - then send a postal letter requesting permission to use the system while including your call sign. Just keying up random repeaters without permission can make for some bad feelings and harsh responses.

Thanks for the info and hopefully this will assist WQUM460 with the search. Welcome to the forum.

Two antennas met up on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the 'reception' was fantastic.

Hi, Robert and welcome to MyGMRS Forum. Based on my limited repeater experience, the duplexer has to be 'super tuned' in order to work as designed with the rest of the system. The duplexer's tollerances are such that it won't respond well to something that it isn't tuned precisely for. I believe that one of the members mentioned about 5 months ago that 30 feet separation for a non duplexer repeater might be acceptable - but I'm not certain as to what ERP was that was being discussed at that time. Others may have info about a multi frequency, user selectable duplexer that I am not aware of...

Might not be the longest ever, but after some feedline upgrading to Andrew 1/2 inch hardline, I can access one of our LAGGROUP systems 83 miles from my location. This is with a 25 watt TK863G Kenwood and a PCTel Maxrad MFB4605 omni at 43 feet. On 'ducting days' I can access a system near the illinois/Wisconsin line 161 miles away.

Lou - Thanks for the info and Welcome to MyGMRs !!!

In Post # 1 in this thread, an access code was mentioned in the open. For owner security reasons, CTCSS and digital access codes should not be placed in the open forum. If someone wishes to share that info with specific members, please do so by way of Private Messaging where search engine 'bots' can not see the info. Thank you. Kevin, thanks for registering here at MyGMRS Forums. Nice to have you with us.

Hello Phillip and Welcome to MyGMRS. By the looks of your callsign, you have been 'around for awhile'. Nice to have you here and thanks for the inquiries and info.

Thanks, Billy - nice additions to our Museum Thread !!

Hello, Joe, and Welcome to the MyGMRS Forum. The radio that you are considering is Amateur Only. It is not type accepted for ANY radio service and can only be used legally under Amateur radio regulations. There are ways of increasing portable range to a repeater, but most of those are not legal in conjunction with GMRS frequencies. You can read about the most popular way of doing this here below from a discussion at RadioReference.com, but this is not something that is covered under Part 95 Rules for GMRS. Wish that we had better news for you. http://forums.radioreference.com/general-scanning-discussion/70926-mobile-extenders.html

Thanks for the inquiry, Anthony, and Welcome to MyGMRS Forums... Sounds like Rich, our site Administrator at MyGMRS is trying to get that info. I'm sure that Rich will update here as soon as he hears something.

Just bumping this thread in case anyone else would like to add...

VERY COOL !!!!!! Thanks so much, John, for adding to the interest here in this section. Here are two 1960's CB Base Stations... tube type, crystal controlled. Left one is a Halicrafter CB3A 6 channel all original and still works. The one on the right is a Robyn T-123B 23 channel tube type and fully operational. The little mobile in the center is a rare Cobra 19M 23 channel first generation solid state and fully functional. Bottom left is a mid 70's Cobra 21 23 channel - also operational. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q584/PaducahLuke/60sCBbasestations_zps78c6f735.jpg

No, please ask all your questions in this thread so it's all in one place for you.

That depends upon your budget, height of the antenna, feedline type, repeater output power (up to 50 watts max) and gain factor of the antenna with respect to your coverage area expectations. Give this some thought and then give us a little more info as to projected location, height, etc... and several of the members here, who can do RF analytics, can make recommendations on equipment.

Two repeaters in close proximity to each other using the same input and output frequencies and access codes will make both system just about useless if a mobile is close to half way between both systems. In basic terms, FM processing in a receiver does not want to have two exact signals coming in at the same time. This produces some really significant howling noises in the mobile and really distorted audio. Some state police agencies use that type of single frequency multi tower system regionally - but NOT as a repeater for mobile to mobile communications. If you wish to set up a new system, pick another frequency pair and to keep most unauthorized persons off, use diffrent input and output access codes or mix DPL and CTCSS input and output codes for even more privacy. (Looks like John and I were posting at the same time... like minds and all that...LOL...)

Hi, Matthew - Welcome to the MyGMRS forum... Hope that you get all the information that you need to set up your system.