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On 9/10/2023 at 4:58 PM, OffRoaderX said:
My personal best in my Jeep is 93 miles to hit a repeater (over 150 miles if you count the guy I was talking to that was also using the repeater).. I did it once, and used the airwaves for about 45 seconds to do so.. But I still use GMRS to talk with all of my friends/acquaintances using their GMRS and FRS radios, within a mile or so of me, while offroading.. Something that is impossible to do legally with a ham radio and ham radio license.
Why is it impossible to do with a ham radio and license. Hams use HT's and do that all the time.
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That's hard to define. What someone thinks is best for them, you might not think is best for you.
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1 hour ago, wayoverthere said:
I don't see it listed as supported, nor the radioddity gm30 it seems to be twins with.
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home
does look like the gm30 is being worked on though: https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9237
I'm thinking about getting it, but I'll wait until Chirp has it. Thanks.
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Can the Tenway GM-55 GMRS be programed using Chirp?
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I have my roger beeps on, even on my UV5R's. When I'm talking on the local ham repeaters, I keep the roger beep on. No one has ever said anything to me about it. There's only one GMRS repeater in my area, and when I talk on it, I keep the beep on, no one has ever complained about it. It really doesn't matter to me if it's on or off. Now, if I could find a micro echo board to put in one of my GMRS radios, I'd be a happy camper.
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5 hours ago, Guest David Hardy said:
Hi I need some help programming a radioddity GM-N1 handheld I cannot figure it out. Ohio, Indiana boarder
Chirp does not support it as if yet. Do you have a programming cable? Try going here to program.
https://radioddity.s3.amazonaws.com/Radioddity_GM-N1_CPS_V1.01_20210824.zip
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Not that I know of. I may be wrong, but I don't know of any setting that will turn off 'B'. You can mute it, but it will still be there.
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Since I posted on here back in late March, the vice president of the ham club that I'm the president of got his GMRS license. He waited for the price to come down to get his GMRS license. So far as I know that's two of us in the ham club that are also GMRS'ers. I would like to see more hams in the club, and more hams in general get GMRS licenses. The vice president and I are both extra class hams. I also talk on the CB radio, but that's another story for another time. Also, I'm not the only CB'er in the club.
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I'm an extra class ham and the president of the Marshall County Amateur Radio Association in Marshall County, Kentucky. As far as I know I'm the only one in the club that also has a GMRS license. I would like to introduce GMRS to the club but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I do know there's others in my area with GMRS licenses, and there's a GMRS repeater just a couple of miles from me. Any suggestions?
Here's the QR code for the club's Facebook group.
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I got lucky and there is a repeater in my area that has a 40 mile radius. It's an open repeater and maybe around 3 to 4 miles from my location.
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On 3/22/2022 at 6:19 AM, WRPL668 said:
No need for testing it under water. I just want a decent radio to travel with me. I live in a dead area an have to drive/travel to get some comms. So if I’m home it just sits on the shelf. Don’t need a big buck to draw dust while I’m home.
Let me know what you like best from your uv9g please.
bob - WRPL668.One thing I like about it is that it's supported by Chirp.
Steve - WRPR990
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7 hours ago, WRPL668 said:
Just ordered mine today from Radioddity. Hope it’s as good as yours.
It's an awesome radio, and I really like it. In fact, I like it so much that I'm not going to do the water test. There's no doubt, you will like it.
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On 3/9/2022 at 10:20 AM, MichaelLAX said:
They probably had a Club License with its own callsign.
Licensed Hams could supervise and run the equipment and allow unlicensed Boy Scouts to talk over the equipment, using the Club's callsign and not have to use the individual callsign of the supervisor.
They do that all the time at major scouting events such as a jamboree. They will usually have it listed in the QST magazine in the special events page. I have worked a few and received QSL cards from them.
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I am a member, and the current president of the Marshall County Amateur Radio Association. My call sign is KM4JZJ, and the club call is KI4HUS. When we do field day as a club, we always use the club call. If we do other contests as a club, we use the club call. Groups, such as church's, scouts, VFW's, schools, and so on, that are not ham clubs do not have a call sign. With that said, if those said groups start or have a ham club, such as some schools do, then the ham club within that organization, such as schools, can have a call sign.
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I ordered one just a couple of days ago, and it will be here Monday, 3/14/2022.
Two groups on GMRS?
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Now that I see how you worded it, I think that's probably what he meant. I'm a ham, and that's why I couldn't quite figure it out. Besides having a ham license, I also have a GMRS license, and I know several hams that also have GMRS licenses. A lot of us use the UV-5R and have them programed for GMRS, FRS, MRS as well as ham repeaters. I do, and when I talk on ham, I'll use my ham call of KM4JZJ, and when on GMRS frequencies, I'll use WRPR990. If we don't use a repeater, we'll go simplex, or even FRS. Or maybe MRS. We don't care, we have several options to choose from.