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I seriously doubt anyone is literally yelling at you. I could whisper something to my kids when they were kids and if they didn't like what I was saying, they would say I was yelling. Furthermore, me and every one of my ham friends, in addition to expensive Yaesus, Kenwoods and Icoms, own at least one, if not multiple CCRs. And we're certainly not going to tell people we're on an Icom if we're really on a Baofeng. We're proud of being cheap fiscally-responsible.

I have a Jetstream JTM3B that covers 2 meters, 70 cm and GMRS. It also doesn't need a ground plane. It's a bit long at about 40", so I use it on a Comet RS520 lip mount that I can lay down so I can pull in my garage. It does have a built-in fold-over feature but I find it easier to just loosen the mount and fold it over. You'll need an nmo to uhf adapter to run it on an nmo mount. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235219942423?epid=1342624531&hash=item36c4337c17:g:VwkAAOSwarpbcflx&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0Hx7RUSLBzH%2Bmrp08JcdEUeMHTGRDHp6vveWBqPE9F8gmNlwFUZ%2B2TntICLwtxxRx%2BqD5K6yy%2B9cangZOpvWMWTBH4dIgoH%2FaB8PPAkg7DGhBUTAVUT8qlRCx16%2B5COXhbEEhULJ4PujiBt5zoY6sr9yvjPHOrnMwlhOkt5vOKL%2B5w7kbcGAsOzNQ5REk43P%2F91SyLSKk0ZeQ8fUbny2gwRItB%2Fc2f8l2GrPeyutqmL6pPLqAjHRHp4PU%2F6Fjucw9oqgFZdt%2F%2F5mo3zqlRY38W0%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4Sqke-jYw

CB has better slang, too. In fact, I think that's one thing missing from GMRS.

Use slang like "seat covers" from the old CB days.

I assume you're not talking about all of us.

Give it another six months or so of mass pontification and I'm sure it will be covered ad nauseam. This topic refuses to die. On the contrary, it keeps reproducing. Like mitosis in the biology realm.

Snoop around the MyGMRS forums long enough and you'll soon find that it's far from self explanatory, and that it's absolutely necessary to explain Every. Possible. Means.

There's always this classic that actually did make it on the air with zero fact checking.

In his head it does, and in his head it's funny. Just another hit-and-run guest post.

I shamelessly copied this from a Yahoo! article this morning. “I can guarantee you they were not our products,” said Ray Novak, a senior sales manager for Icom’s amateur radio division, in an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, Rhode Island. Novak said Icom introduced the V-82 model more than two decades ago and it has long since been discontinued. It was designed for amateur radio operators and for use in social or emergency communications, including by people tracking tornadoes or hurricanes".

That's an Icom IC-V8. https://www.rigpix.com/icom/icv8.htm

Anytone had a series of radios under various names, most notably these two. Knowing what I do now about exploding HTs. I don't think I'll be seeking them out on the used market. Can't be too careful. https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=12231 https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=12926

Not only is there no rule I've ever heard of prohibiting traffic reports on GMRS (or CB, or MURS, or FRS), traffic reports and other public safety issues are part of personal radio services. CB radio, arguably the granddaddy of Part 95 communications, probably owes its very existence to folks providing traffic reports to each other. In the mid 80s we used to have a guy here in Orange County, CA who went by "Quiet Man". He took traffic incidents every day from all of us on our CBs and called them in to the CHP and told us where the wrecks were. Unless someone can cite an actual rule, they can, as my dad used to say, go pound sand.

I scan all the GMRS frequencies here in Orange County, CA every day on my way to and from work. There appears to be a lot of radio traffic. The issue for me is that I don't know Spanish.

Let's back up. Try your question again. This time, try to be very clear. Most of us, (although not all, as you've seen), are more than willing to help. But that's only if we understand the question. Hopefully you're still reading responses and the ass hats haven't discouraged you, as so often happens here.

It works for me. It sounds just like a lot of repeater courtesy tones I hear. It's loud enough to work as a courtesy tone. On the Baofeng, I can set the duration of the tone as well.

Are you sure your radio is set to the correct channel for the repeater you are trying to reach?

For what it's worth, the much-maligned, but still world-famous Baofeng UV-5R (and perhaps its variants) can be set up to transmit a customizable DTMF series of tones of up to 5 "digits" either on key-up, (BOT), after PTT release (EOT), or both. It can be set up by channel. It's much less annoying than the standard roger beep. I have two radios set up this way with EOT transmissions.

Lots of evacuations from this one, probably over 10,000 acres burned. We have 3 big fires going here now, the Airport Fire, the Line Fire, and the Bridge Fire. Our repeater site is down for the foreseeable future because the power is out. Fortunately no fatalities that I know of.

Almost lost ours to the Airport Fire last night.

Ahhh. In that case, !

Ours came from other clubs that were taking them out of service years ago, so our trustee at the time knew them. At one time we had a 440, we now have two 2-meter units. They're all over Ebay if you want to roll the dice, but I also see them on Haloid Radio and Used-Radios.com. I'd be inclined to get one from one of those two or some other actual business since they have some sort of support. Ebay is, well, Ebay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start an argument, but how do you figure?

The issue is that people keep responding to him instead of putting him on their Ignored User list. That just exacerbates the problem.

This is for Part 90. GMRS is Part 95. The rules and definitions of terms from one to the next vary, since Part 90 regulates things like public safety and business radio while Part 95 regulates personal radio services.