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    Wildzebra reacted to SteveShannon in GMRS travel channel   
    I think your post did help, Marc.  If nothing else it took the edge off.  ?
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    Wildzebra reacted to marcspaz in GMRS travel channel   
    Well, I hope my post may help clear things up. I doubt it, but hopefully. 
     
    I know I stir the pot with some of my posts about this, but reality is, this is my current and typical daily situation while I'm driving around...
     

     
    I'm probably still go a stir the pot when this topic pops up though. LOL
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    Wildzebra reacted to OffRoaderX in GMRS travel channel   
    Correct - A (simplex) channel to talk to other travelers/get road checks/etc, while on the road - just like good old CB Ch19.
    Discussing it here doesn't matter though, because none of the discussion, arguing, and bragging about who has "worked in the industry" longest is going to make any difference at all.
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    Wildzebra got a reaction from back4more70 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    Hang on, hang on, hang on, HANG ON! 
    It is very clear to anybody who is watching that I, me, I, aka not someone else, is his favorite viewer.
    I think we need someone to adjudicate this ruling, and as i'm the one who bought up that adjudication is required, I will be appointing myself to the role.
    Phew, glad we got that sorted
    Adam
    p.s - the official travel channel for GMRS in CH 19, no tone.  #neverforget
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    Wildzebra reacted to OffRoaderX in GMRS travel channel   
    ...as predicted...
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    Wildzebra reacted to back4more70 in GMRS travel channel   
    Based on my subjective and nerdy calculations, there are a little over 10,000 licensed GMRS users that are affected by this, which works out to about 7% of the United States licensed GMRS users.  I say we (the 93%) use channel 19 anyway hahaha
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    Wildzebra reacted to WRQJ683 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    Nooo, no no. It's not worth all that. I can learn to accept that I'm his second favorite viewer. I just think that it's only fair for me to expect him to address me as such, though.
     
    Congrats, you're his favorite. ?
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    Wildzebra reacted to back4more70 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    [ slams mouse, rushes outside for a fight ]
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    Wildzebra reacted to WRQJ683 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    Wait, what? That's just not possible. He very clearly pointed at ME in his last video and told me I was his favorite, and he didn't want to waste MY time. 
     
    We need to get to the bottom of this.....
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    Wildzebra reacted to back4more70 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    Excuse me, he clearly states in every video that I am his favorite user, and he doesn't want to waste my time.
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    Wildzebra reacted to WRQJ683 in Looking at buying a new GMRS radio, suggestions plz?   
    The big question is, where does the BTech GMRS-V2 fall into the mix? I checked your YT channel and noticed that you haven't reviewed that one yet. Is that on your schedule at some point?
     
    Love your vids by the way. It feels good to know that I'm your favorite viewer.
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    Wildzebra got a reaction from BoxCar in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    Ok team, I have solved the issue - and along the way learnt a great deal about how PL/CTCSS/DCS/etc tones work.
    That said, before I get started I wanted to shout out to @wayoverthere @BoxCar @wrci350 and @Screech for all the suggestions, followups, ideas and collectively all the information that I needed to get this one solved.
    With that said, while I now understand it all, and I got it to work, I also realize that while it's easy in my head, it's hard to write down - i'm going to give it a try though so maybe someone stumbles across this one day and it helps them out.
    So through my journey I found out a few things:
    There are actually two repeaters on the 462.55/467.55 frequency that are relatively close to where I am located - one uses input tone 131.4 no output tone, the second uses input and output tone of 241.8  When i've been testing what has been suggested in this thread, I did have a variable that I hadn't thought to share/I didn't think mattered. I've had the van parked in different spots - and while those spots have been less than 20ft away, that's been the difference between hitting both repeaters clear as day vs barely at all.  I've done this several times, it's quite consistent. So my solution is
    Setup two channels, each using their own output tones and both using no input tone. Set one of the two channels as my secondary channel on the KG1000 - I keep the primary channel on for my simplex comms with my friends When I receive a transmission I will return transmit on the frequency i've got set as my secondary - if i'm heard, awesome - If i'm not I quickly switch to the other channel and that inevitably gets through without an issue. What did I learn?
    Having no PL/privacy/CTCSS/DCS tone on the receive side means you hear everything on that frequency (I did not know this!) Line of sight/obstacles do and will have an impact to your transmissions I'm somewhat lucky that I have two overlapping repeaters that effectively extend my transmission range Hopefully this explains it all and clarifies the combination of items that happened.
    Adam
    tl;dr - radio works fine, user needed to better understand radio theory
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    Wildzebra got a reaction from wayoverthere in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    Ok team, I have solved the issue - and along the way learnt a great deal about how PL/CTCSS/DCS/etc tones work.
    That said, before I get started I wanted to shout out to @wayoverthere @BoxCar @wrci350 and @Screech for all the suggestions, followups, ideas and collectively all the information that I needed to get this one solved.
    With that said, while I now understand it all, and I got it to work, I also realize that while it's easy in my head, it's hard to write down - i'm going to give it a try though so maybe someone stumbles across this one day and it helps them out.
    So through my journey I found out a few things:
    There are actually two repeaters on the 462.55/467.55 frequency that are relatively close to where I am located - one uses input tone 131.4 no output tone, the second uses input and output tone of 241.8  When i've been testing what has been suggested in this thread, I did have a variable that I hadn't thought to share/I didn't think mattered. I've had the van parked in different spots - and while those spots have been less than 20ft away, that's been the difference between hitting both repeaters clear as day vs barely at all.  I've done this several times, it's quite consistent. So my solution is
    Setup two channels, each using their own output tones and both using no input tone. Set one of the two channels as my secondary channel on the KG1000 - I keep the primary channel on for my simplex comms with my friends When I receive a transmission I will return transmit on the frequency i've got set as my secondary - if i'm heard, awesome - If i'm not I quickly switch to the other channel and that inevitably gets through without an issue. What did I learn?
    Having no PL/privacy/CTCSS/DCS tone on the receive side means you hear everything on that frequency (I did not know this!) Line of sight/obstacles do and will have an impact to your transmissions I'm somewhat lucky that I have two overlapping repeaters that effectively extend my transmission range Hopefully this explains it all and clarifies the combination of items that happened.
    Adam
    tl;dr - radio works fine, user needed to better understand radio theory
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    Wildzebra reacted to BoxCar in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    It's entirely possible the repeater is transmitting a tone but your receiver by not requiring one will hear anything transmitted on the frequency.
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    Wildzebra reacted to wrci350 in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    Pretty sure the OP said the issue was with *transmitting*.  If it was a receive problem, then this would be a useful debugging step.  But the receive tone doesn't come into play with transmitting.
    @WildzebraHow far apart are the mobile and the HT when you are testing?  If they are only a few feet apart and you are transmitting on high power, it's quite possible that you are desensing the receiver in the HT ... that 50 watts going out on 467.x makes the HT deaf on the corresponding 462.x frequency.  Have you tried moving the HT further away?
     
    Many (but not all) repeaters also have a courtesy tone or a squelch tail that gets transmitted after a radio unkeys.  Do you hear that?
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    Wildzebra reacted to wayoverthere in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    You're reading it correctly, but it's one of those "doesn't hurt for testing" kind of things...getting the "filter" (tone) out of the way to confirm things are working. Keeping "tone" is what you need to still get into the repeater (assuming it's transmitting as it should)
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    Wildzebra reacted to wayoverthere in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    So...I'm expect some of the other members with experience with that model may have some better suggestions in the morning.
    That said, a couple things come to mind:
    First, can you set the retevis (or another radio) to listen on 467.550 to see if the wouxun is indeed transmitting? That would help narrow if it's a transmit issue or tone issue.  Second, the only thing in that config screen that stands out to me is the "ptt-id" field. can that be set to 'off' just to rule out the possibility of that interfering with the tone, since it appears to currently set for "beginning of transmission"? (I think my 805g has "bot", "eot", "both", and "off" as options)  
     
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    Wildzebra reacted to wrci350 in WOXUN KG-1000G not transmitting to repeater using CTCSS codes   
    Sounds very much like it might be desense.  Your HT can hear the 467.x transmission just fine ... but that's ALL it can hear.
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