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Probably Mr. JOHN SHAMLEY was no longer working for the company and his replacement didn't know that their license had to be renewed. Even if they wanted to get a new license, they cannot since the FCC no longer grants business licenses...
Find out what tone is used and hijack their repeater. Who are they going to complain to?
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13 hours ago, WyoJoe said:
Are you in Weatherford? As I recall from the last time I went through there, there is an astronaut from there, and possibly a related museum?
Weatherford is the hometown of astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, veteran of four space flights and commander of the Gemini 9, Apollo 10 missions and the Apollo-Soyuz project. The museum is located at the Thomas P. Stafford Airport. Weatherford also has The Oklahoma Heartland of America Museum, which opened in 2007.
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I have had six transceivers stacked on top of one another for close to eight years now. My only problem is remembering which mike goes to a specific radio!
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I've used my Comet CA-712EFC for the past six years and have been extremely pleased with it. I highly recommend using some 1.5" heat shrink on the connector that fastens the top/bottom sections of the antenna together. That will prevent any water ingress.
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22 hours ago, plarkinjr said:
the 1750Hz alert tone burst
The 1750 tone burst is widely used in Europe the same way that CTCSS/PL and DCS is used for repeater access in the US. I used tone burst exclusively when living in Germany. Tone burst never caught on in the US.
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18 hours ago, Lscott said:
The above isn’t just with radio programming software you find this with just about all the CAD software out there too. I use a number for hobby use and they are 10 to 20 year old versions before the companies moved to the same license scheme above or required hardware dongles.
Autodesk's 3D Studio Max changed to a monthly or yearly subscription model several years ago. It is horrendously expensive! Fortunately for me, the company for whom I work pays for the software for me.
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My fondest memories are of the really l o n g d i s t a n c e contacts I made using my 200 milliwatt handi-talkies to another young boy in California: from Ariington, Virginia to San Francisco, California! What a hoot that was back in 1958. Noise floor non-existent, skip propagation was King!
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On 11/1/2021 at 3:52 PM, Lscott said:
Did you need to re-tune the cavity filters?
Absolutely! Changing from 462/467 MHz down to 447.975 MHz was a "bridge to far..." Having 16 channels is useless as the duplexer is simply too tight to allow, especially for multiple GMRS frequency pairs. Fortunately I have three analog service monitors in my shop. I wish I could afford a digital service monitor!
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On 11/1/2021 at 3:56 PM, MichaelLAX said:
Great news: Where did you get your serial programming cable for the Yaesu FT-857d?
I think my Yaesu serial port is current being used either for my SignalLink USB or my LDG AT-100 II antenna tuner; I will have to check.
From my usual source: BlueMax49ers. I refuse to buy any programming cable that is not FTDI...
That may well work for you then. Good luck, either way.
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On 10/28/2021 at 4:26 PM, TOM47 said:
The Retevis RT97S is an exciting new UHF repeater certified by the FCC for use on GMRS! The Retevis RT97S has FCC ID 2ASNSRT97 Retevis RT97S Portable GMRS Repeater – myGMRS.com
I've had my "RT97" for several years, although I've since reprogrammed it for 70cm ham use. I have a 50' telescoping mast and antenna I can deploy in the field to help support our ARES group when needed.
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5 hours ago, pcradio said:
I remember CB, from the 90's.
Being an "old fart" I remember CB from the early 60's. It was wonderful. Folks were polite, everyone used their call signs, we formed local clubs and sponsored "Coffee Breaks" at the nearest Interstate Rest Area nearly every weekend during the summer and major holidays. REACT teams were a real thing then too.
About the same time the FCC eliminated licensing, it all went to shit and has only gotten worse ever since.
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On 10/29/2021 at 2:23 PM, IanM said:
If you're looking to chat with strangers at random while out on the road or the trail, you might get the most use out of a DMR transceiver, assuming there's networked repeaters in your area and depending on what national talk groups they host.
One can also use a DMR hotspot when not near an actual repeater...
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On 10/30/2021 at 12:45 AM, MichaelLAX said:
Now, I have never purchased RT Systems software, but I am tempted to do it for my legacy Yaesu FT-857d, because owning it for all these years, I still have NO channels in memory because it is a PITA to do so manually and there was no Yaesu software, free or otherwise, when they released it years ago.
CHIRP will quite happily program your FT-857D... I used CHIRP to program mine several years ago. I also left plenty of blank space between my 'grouped' entries.
I even have specific favorite 40m, 20m, 10m, and 6m frequencies programmed!
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On 10/27/2021 at 9:24 PM, Lscott said:
DMR isn’t that complex to setup. It’s just messy.
Analog radio programming uses a flat-file database (like an Excel spreadsheet).
DMR radio programming uses a relational-file data base, which is why it appears "messy."
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16 hours ago, WRKC935 said:
The other this that no one takes into account is horizon.
I am very cautious using "absolutes" when it should be obvious that many folks do take "horizon" into account...
...and not just "professionals" for that matter.
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CB idiots. I wouldn't want to be cooked by RF exposure!
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4 minutes ago, stockjock said:
It's not as if I have the need or time to do a lot of chatting
And so it is with many (most?) other GMRS operators. A lot does depend on the area one lives in. Here in NW Indiana we are blessed with no fewer than eight (yes, all of 'em) repeaters easily reachable by mobile or base, and in my area at least three are reachable by HT as well.
At least three of them have weekly nets, and many are busiest in the evening hours when folks are at home with nothing better to do...
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Those repeaters should be set for WFM not NFM...
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On 10/20/2021 at 12:29 PM, Lscott said:
You can't tell from the call sign format.
If they have a 2x1 or 1x2 callsign you can be sure they are Advanced or Extra, otherwise not really possible to know...
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20 hours ago, axorlov said:
SWR 1.7 is ok. Nothing to write home about, but not terrible. The difference between low and high power measuring usually (but not always) points to a crappy SWR meter. Surecom, right? I would not sweat over it too much.
Here is a handy colored chart listing VSWR ranging from 1:1 upwards. Note that 1.7 still allows just around 92% of the forward power being delivered to the antenna. In fact, anything lower that 2.2:1 is still considered "Good".
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3 hours ago, Lscott said:
For example if a GMRS user contacts myself on the air, using GMRS certified equipment and legal frequencies, and I respond I must also be using the same. I'm in fact dual licensed for both Ham Radio and GMRS. That doesn't preclude me from turning around and now using my Ham Radio to forward the message on legal Ham frequencies. When I do so I'm now operation under my Ham license and rules.
That describes precisely how we have ARES District 1 set up here in NW Indiana. Our ARES "group" has both ham and GMRS members. Some hams (such as myself) are dual licensed. Any GMRS operator can forward a message to one of us with dual licensed stations and we will then in turn forward that message to our Incident Command Center. The same operates in reverse as well of course.
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You cannot scan for the repeater's input tone with regular GMRS equipment, and that is what you will need to use the repeater if indeed it is a repeater.