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I'm extremely grateful for your local repeater and the amateur repeaters. They are a definite benefit for both services.Tell you what. How about I take all my shit off the air and you can sit and listen to static. Maybe some kids once in a while on FRS. Since I am the only one in central Ohio with a linked repeater, I am obviously the one wasting the precious spectrum that no one else seems to want to bother with putting a repeater on.
Balls in your court now buddy. You don't like what I provide for free. You put a repeater on the air. I will turn all this gear back into cash and make it someone else's issue.
It gets old listening to others complain about what I do with no cost to others because I can. If you don't like it, don't use it. I really don't care at this point.
I've always viewed GMRS as a local mode of communication. If I want to talk longer distance, then my amateur license comes into play.
Don't let me ruin your day. It's not worth it
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On this linked network. I.hear the same people over and over again going on and on for seemingly hours on end.
Always..the same 10 or so.people in different combinations.
Then, on a rare quiet moment, someone not a part of their clique gives their call, most of the time they go unanswered.
What a waste of percious frequency spectrum.
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Sometimes equipment falls thru the cracks. The testing lab assigns the FCC ID and just forwards all the test reports to the FCC. Sometimes, the test labs certify equipment that is in violation. The FCC eventually catches the error and yanks the certification .
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So now you are just hating all amateur radio operators?Just curious what tips all the licensed H.A.M. operators would give to someone thinking about getting their H.A.M. license.
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That's goodI have not run into that at all, been talking FM with a few folks here all weak.
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You used cb 10 codes. That's different from the ham radio q codes. You don't wanna sound like a cber.I was chastised by a "helpful" HAM two decades ago for inadvertently using a 10-code with a fellow off duty LEO on 2m. It just amazes me how HAMs will use Q codes on voice and end their transmissions on 2m with 73s and then complain about other people. Of course, I don't play well with others.
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Those modified rigs use a wider deviation than what is allowed for cb. You may find them a bit quiet and you will.sound garbled to them.I have the anytone 5555. Have talked to a few local guys on FM and it sounds great. Problem is that you have to ask one to go there as they still hang out on AM.
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I agree 100%! You get every Tom, dick, and Harry wanting to set up a repeater just because they want one. Don't ask for a new mode of communication to compensate for irresponsible use of spectrum.Then stop putting repeaters on top of other repeaters! Simple solution because you don't need more than a few. Here in Southern California we have idiots that need to shut up and allow others to periodically use the frequency. Those are the real issues.
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Handheld radios talking to each other will get the range you mentioned. They are operating normally.
The antennas you got are made for amateur radio use and not gmrs. The lack of performance is to be expected in this case.
There is nothing wrong with your radios.
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No. GMRS and MURS are 2 different radio services. You can't do that legallyWould it be legal to use MURS (with correct band width an power output) to link two GMRS repeaters? Opinions?
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No Roger beeps. Not proper etiquette. You'll find yourself with no one to talk to.As I have posted the other week, I am fairly new to GMRS, although I have been around two way communication for many years.
I have recently received permission to use a repeater in my area and am very appreciative of this. The other day, after listening several day to the local traffic to learn proper etiquette, I attempted to communicate through the repeater by identifying myself with call sign and location.
Some guy instantly acknowledged me and demanded that I turn off my roger beep because it raises havoc with the equipment. From my previous listening, I know that this individual is not the owner of the repeater.
Now, if the owner himself doesn’t like roger beeps, its his equipment, and he is gracious enough to allow me to use it. For this I’m am very thankful and will oblige any demands or requests that he has. If I don’t like his demands and requests, I don’t have to use his service.
My question to the forum is; a roger beep is a roger beep. As far as I can tell, it’s just an additional part of your transmission. I really need someone to explain in terms that my little rat like brain can comprehend how a roger beep is going to take out someone’s equipment.
The way I look at this whole thing….. Instead of idiots that like to deadkey and jam repeaters, it they are that malicious, why don’t they just send out a series of roger beeps and nuke the entire system. Apparently roger beeps can be as destructive as an actual EMP.
Thanks ahead of time for your feedback. I look much forward to learning more about the destructive powers of the roger beep.
On Cb, Roger beeps are known as "good buddy beeps" . The user is inviting people for a romantic interlude at a rest area men's room.
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Politics is certainly not meaningful.Religious and political statements are not, and cannot be, legally prohibited. It's just HAM tradition to not talk about anything meaningful other than your equipment.
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Not how I read it. If a base communicates with another base, then they are "fixed stations" bases can only talk to mobiles.Mostly that’s a convenient way to view it, but there are some fine details that differ. Base stations may communicate with both base stations or mobile stations. Base stations may not communicate on the any of the 467 frequencies, whereas fixed stations may communicate with each other on the 467 main channels.
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A fixed station is like a base station that communicates with other fixed stations only
A base station is a fixed station that only communicates with mobiles.
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I guess wireline is any non RF mode of transport of intelligence. Again...a guess.Define wireline using the CFR Title 47 definitions please. Same for where the rules state it must be a short range service.
There is no "must be". I believe it is more of a "designed as" or "originally intended for". Similar to where GMRS wasn't designed as a hobby service; but you know how that ended up.
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The applicable rule in this matter is §95.1733(a)(8) which prohibits any messages which are both conveyed by (any form of) wireline control link (which will include internet connections) and transmitted by a GMRS station.
GMRS was created with the intent of being a short range service not a bunch of interconnected repeaters for worldwide use (that’s the realm of amateur radio, common carrier services, and the internet).
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95/subpart-E/section-95.1733
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So let me ask the group about this…
Using a MURS channel as part of a Crossband system.
I , I mean “A Friend” would use 151.xxx on a vehicular repeater (commercially produced for this purpose) which is physically connected to a GMRS base.
Why on earth would e want to do this?
Can’t use a UHF HT, Need a base station to work the GMRS repeater I am a part of. Want to be able to walk around the house (yard, etc) with a VHF HT on .5w and talk.
This isn’t a Parrot and it’s a repeater but not a MURS repeater
The equipment is type-certified This setup is in practice nationwide in commercial and municipal situations. So if my example is not “legal” is it “illegal” strictly based on the frequencies being used?
Thoughts?
Not legal. You are cross banding between two entirely different radio services . You can't do that.
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OK.... The CHIRP developer is on it and has a test patch.
It is located in: https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9933
The test file must be downloaded, then loaded into CHIRP in its developer mode.
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