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For the price, it is surprising the quailty the Baufangs offer.

No sorry,,, didn't hang around after spending 3 hours in a hot 106 degree afternoon.. The jeeper parade was a bit kool but most were Fancy Mall Crawlers. Lifted, looking pretty all set up for outlanding The Air Raid Siren was pretty loud and impressive and unexpected considering a large military base is just a few miles away.. Dang, i havent heard an air raid siren in 40 years. I was curious who the group was and what they were up too.. No one here has the dig.. O.K.

So we go out shooting today in are fine hot desert.. Packing up and starting to leave a caravan of jeeps with all types of advertising on them parade by us. Something big even going on with outlanders in our desert this weekend. As we are watching, one guy in his jeep parks up on a hill within eye site from us.. All of a sudden we are hearing an Air Raid Siren, Louder than hell.. Turns out the guy on the hill has some sort of a hand crank air siren mounted in the back of his jeep and he is up there cranking away... Then the GMRS radios let loose.. Everyone was enjoying the nosie and their fun.. We left them behind in their dust.. It was actually kind of neat. They all defiantly had GMRS Radios and they gathered on 10, 11 & 12

if i remember, that was yellow water too

Even the Baufang's are pretty tough. Couple years ago when installing solar panels on my RV roof one of my UV5R jogged loose from my pocket clip and took a 12' fall to the cement.. I just said 'oh $hit" let it sit there on the cement while I continued with my work. The radio was blaring away sitting there on the ground. When i got down on the ground i checked her for damage, nothing but a slight indentation on one corner of the radio bear the antenna. Today, its one of my favorte radios, only becuse its been battle tested.

All the fire fighters in my community have the green Motorola's.. I was joking with one of the firefighters at Panda Expfress last week,, "Can you accidentally forget that thing on the table" .

Is it a HAM Lic? you follow this copied cliped process: To request a vanity call sign that was previously held by a deceased individual, you can apply for it under the "in memoriam" provision or the "close relative of former holder" provision, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). You must have in your station records a written statement from a spouse, child, grandchild, stepchild, parent, grandparent, stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or in-law of the deceased confirming their association with the club and their consent to your request. Here's a more detailed explanation: 1. Check if the call sign is available: Use the FCC Universal Licensing System (ULS) or other databases like QRZ.com to see if the call sign is currently in use or available.

it its a HAM call sign there is a process you can take to acquire the call sign through the FCC via a Vanity Request. I don't think this would be abailable undere a GMRS lic though. Someone here may know. Steve?????? Of course you would need a HAM Lic

now thats pretty impressive,, a case twice the cost of the radios

think it is wishful thinking and a slight attempt to gain some support.. It's not right to try to bash a vendor, especially when the vendor would be left $$ out of pocket. Hopefully the OP will understand that and move ahead without trying to hurt someone

BSR is just a vender for the Wouxun product. His warrantee options are based on what the manufacture supports for their products. My very first Wouxun KG935G i bought developed a dirty volume control potentiometer 2 months after the warrantee expired. Like you, i contacted the vendor i purchased from, (BuyTwoWayRadios) hoping for some leniency on the warranty but no luck.. They said the manufacture would not support a replacement.. But they did give me some tips how to correct the problem with simple contact cleaners, it worked and I'm happy.

Well, you can always get you one of these..

yea, thats what i thought. I just didnt know for sure where this was heading. - thanks

I wonder, Can the FCC actually enforce their GMRS Linking ruling to require Zello to stop allowing GMRS traffic on their Network? I thought it was radio operator responsibility. Interesting ??

i haven't got one of thse yet. i do have a few radios where you have to initiate a process to discover tones...

Make an audio recording of the CW and upload here to decode. https://morsecode.world/international/decoder/audio-decoder-adaptive.html

only one time in 7 years of using GMRS was i ever asked to register, or request t to use a GMRS repeater. It was in Auburn, Calif in 2020. As i was travling through on I80 Ch 18 broke loose with someone asking for a radio check. This Ch happend to be programed with the same and PL codes of a repeater here in the desert After giving the other party a radio check and talking for 20'ish minutes. The owner just popped in introduced his call sign told me it was his repeater and asked me to submit a request here to use. It was no big deal, the guy was nice about everything. I never did fill out a request to use cause i havent been through that area since.. Frankly, i can't even keep up with the ones have requested access too.

he discusses a little on connecting the two radios to the RICK,,,, as far as programing the CW can you find anything on a Google search, along with the other aspects you are looking for? Repeaterbuilder.com might be the best resource for your questions and help.. Those guys are eager to help anyone. .. I once had a repeater made with two Maxon Mobil Radios (similar to two Motorolas). I used an ICS controller with OpenRepeater software, open source. I had to access the pinouts from both radios to make a custom pig-tail cable to communicate with the controller and radio. That setup cost less than $200, worked very well. Was able to program CW or voice on any interval i needed and also had a busy option..

DMR is defiantly a different game, which I have never used RT or Chirp to do since my Hytera CPM does it well. Right now the only DMR radios i have is Hytera and mostly because i like their overall package and ease of using their CPM. Not to mention some very good deals i've gotten on Ebay....

RT is defiantly easer to use but considering the amount of time, at least for me, you spend on programing, i can get things done almost as fast in CHIRP. I'm not a fan of the Wouxun software either but it does do everything needed. I don't use much of either anymore since i use mostly Hytera stuff now. Their CPM is extremely easy to use and learn and very powerful. I have a couiple Motorloa radios, which i like but never could get my hands around their CPM..

it's kind of funny with GMRS compared to HAM Radio like WIN or PAPA. The later being busy every single day almost every min of the hour.. GMRS on the other hand, at least in my area and places i frequent while camping, has it's cycles. Some days the spectrum is busy as heck and scanning will drive you nuts and other days it's so quite you begin to think your radio is broke. My repeater can go weeks with zero traffic then all of a sudden its a mad house, it sounds like grand central station. There is even a young crowd that come and go on my repeater, every once in a while they get on and zabber having fun then their gone but they always seem to come back. On the HAM side with PAPA and WIN, it's like wait your turn so can can speak. I prefer using GMRS becasue i dont line the pressure of following the HAM zargin. They like things done their way or you can't play, but i respect that.

yes, but with a price tag.. Some like RT, i have used both, I don't mind CHIRP, it's free and will get you the same results.

yup, its a good idea to auto identify your repeater station, especially if it is an open repeater. At the end of the day, Its operation is the owners responsibility. Also a good idea to set up for remote access to disable if needed.. I have never had to remote shut down mine but a nearby friend has a few times due to jamming. Another thing he does, that i don't, i probly should, if he is away from montering range he shuts his down.. His is set up for continuous 15 minute ID intervals. I dont like that, i think it is silly, so i set mine for ID on Busy only on 15 min intervals. It's a personal preference thing. He does it so people can find and identity that particular repeate which has a very very wide operational range.

this guy fibured it out

GMRS is actually not bad until you get into the bigger cities..Then it seem's 'Game off' time