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Maybe he uses the GMRS Pro to prop up his HAM HT so it doesn't tip over?

Saw this in an article just now: "The SKA-Mid array in Karoo (will) scan the sky for sources of radio waves in the middle frequency range from 350 MHz to 15.4 GHz using 197 dishes, each 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter." How soon do you think it will be before Midland starts advertising FRS radios capable of reaching Africa? ?

Good for you! I'm packing up for Wyoming, where NOBODY lives.

a/k/a Retevis RA25. But I believe the DB20-G and AT-779UV are easier to program via computer, from what I read in other forums on this site.

Long Live the Queen.

Thus explaining Randy's recon of the Salton Sea... I guess he is looking to solve the Sad Ham problem once and for all...

Agreed, but when I joined I didn't know what to search until after I read a bunch

Way to kill the dream. I hear the ladies love his belt clips.

Pretty sure the license only takes a day or two after paying the fee. If you just want to listen, maybe start with a $22 UV-5R, until you have a handle on your needs a bit better.

I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago and listened in to a GMRS net for a bit, and it was the most boring thing ever. First, there was 15 minutes of "check ins" followed by a few more minutes of "did I miss anybody?" Never again lol

I've purchased from mygmrs, Amazon, eBay, and BTech. No problems so far.

Although we ID as required, my wife is "Fortune Cookie" because she is of (mostly) Asian heritage, and I am "Stink Bug" because I don't smell so good...

I could see a pretty cool use case in which a Retevis RT97 repeater is used for a campsite (or a church), and a bunch of little BF-T11 satellites for the users

I got my orange BF-H5 for $33, but is was only the radio and charger. I do think the sound quality is good. In fact, I may order another. Any idea what the power on GMRS frequencies may help? I doubt it is ten watts, but maybe six or seven?

I bought my first pair on Amazon, and then two more pairs on eBay ??. I do like these radios.

Based on these helpful answers, it seems that I should be transmitting from my radio on 467.575 with tone of 200DPL (encode), then receiving on my radio on 462.575 with a tone of 100DPL (decode)? Thanks all, this is good info.

I had a 50/50 chance lol

Hi all, I am trying to setup my Retevis RA25 to add a hypothetical repeater with tones via the Retevis software (as a learning exercise). In my scenario, my fake repeater has this info: Name: TEST575, Frequency In: 462.575, Frequency Out: 467.575 (standard offset), Input Tone: 200DPL, Output Tone: 100DPL My confusion is twofold: Is the Input Tone the CTCSS/DCS Encode, and the Output Tone is the CTCSS/DCS Decode? For a tone of 200DPL, do I use D200I or D200N? I included a screenshot of two different settings, not sure which would work. Thanks all.

Interesting. My guess would be one is narrow and one is wide, but you probably already programmed them both to be wide, so that wouldn't explain it. I don't think that happened to me, but I probably turned mine to different volumes without thinking about it.

I seem to have more than enough programmable channels on my cheap radios, but perhaps I need more friends/contacts ?

Which model? The BF-H6?

I have the Retevis RA25 version of this, and I really like it. I paired it with Nagoya UT-72G, since I mostly bought it for GMRS.

I don't own this model, but your question inspired me to research a little. It seems this radio is functionally the same as the prior version BF-H5, which I found a good deal on the big website, so I think I will be purchasing one. Thank you for the idea

If anything is exposed that was not designed to be exposed (such as the inner socket area), I would not trust this exposed area to be IP67 anymore. Think of it like a drain plug on a boat, if that plug is not sealed all the way then the boat will leak.

It's not about the number of syllables, it's about uniformity between radios (FRS & GMRS) when communicating with others. Does this assume that the radio setups (i.e. channel/frequency assignments) are the same? Yes it does. In another example, when the police dispatcher tells Adam-12 to go to a different frequency, the dispatcher says something like "TAC-12" and not "135.7865 MHz."