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WRTH574

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  1. For Christmas I got a GMRS radio for each of my boys, both of whom are teens. While I'm covered with a license for the whole family I wasn't prepared for what they did. I guess I should have seen this coming, but the next thing I knew they were playing music to each other, kerchunking, and screaming on channel 9. We had to sit down and have a little talk about etiquette.
  2. I don't know about you, but I can't remember my new call sign without looking. The times I thought I remembered it, I butchered it. So, I got a desk plaque that has the call sign and if I mount my mobile in the car, I'll get a smaller one for the car. I suppose I would remember it if I used it daily, but I don't.
  3. I saw something about a bench power supply needed to be about 30 Watts output at 13.8 V to have a 50 Watt radio actually transmit on 50 watts. Now I don't know a thing about this, but I'm wondering if connecting a 50 Watt radio to a car battery has enough juju to let it transmit at about 50 watts. In other words I guess, I'm wondering if the mobile radios are designed to output their max power when connected to a vehicle? I would assume and hope so. I have no idea how much wattage is output by a car battery.
  4. True, an amazing amount of info is gathered on all of us and can be found by a determined person. I just want to frustrate anyone causally snooping into my affairs and not make it easy for them. A government agency that wants to find someone has even more resources depending on the need. Credit card and phone records, vehicle registrations, tax returns, cell phone calls and GPS data, etc. It's hard to be invisible these days.
  5. Some probably don't care, and I used to not care, but there are so many wackos out there that I want to keep my physical address as hidden as possible. Anyone with enough research can find it, true, but making it more difficult to uncover seems to make sense. I'm not a celebrity, but I still don't want someone that I talked to on the radio, or online, showing up at my door, no matter how nice they are. I don't like unannounced visits even by family and totally hate door to door sales. That being said: When one gets a GMRS license there seems to be no way to squash the address given to the FCC. They proudly display it for anyone that wants to see it. Other agencies like the FAA which licenses pilots gives people the option of keeping the address private. That seems to make more sense. Unless I missed it, the FCC has no such mechanism. The solution of course is to rent a PO Box and list that as the address, or, if you own a business, use that. If the FAA can do it, the FCC surely could. I'm told the rules don't allow it. Yet the FCC has all kinds of information on how to keep your private information private when using phones. They state "Protecting the privacy and security of the personal information FCC collects and uses is very important to us. " but allow anyone with a computer to see your home address if you have a radio license. Seems to me this could be changed.
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