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that's why i refer to them as two little girls in a powder room...

Southern and northern Calif is extremely busy with CB like Chatter on every channel. . Bay area is just as bad. North from Palmdale gets pretty quite and some of the repeaters are actually a pleasant to use. . One of my favorite repeaters on El Paso Mtn can talk from Acton to Lone Pine and Hesperia and Lone Pine about 175-180 miles. Los Angeles basin has it's share of 'Spanish speaking guys as well and yes they can talk like two little girls in a powder room.

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sure looks like your are ignoring me LMAO

it already has in many parts of the country, most notably in bigger cities like the LA Zoo

common sense is really not that hard to come by,, A little goes a long way.. Try it some time..

Like Randy say's. The FCC 'doesn't care' and would rather sit on their desk sucking loli pops than come after violators, so fuk the lic.. Who needs one...... Besides,, GMRS and FRS is nothing but a free for all zoo anyway.. If you can't beat em' join em'

yea, they write those 40 pages for morons that refuse to understand simple language..

well no $hit

very clear to me, i knew better.... I guess if you want to do something, your gonna find a way around something to do it...

understanding now and not before??? The rules never changed...

Sorry, can't help you.. Common sense seems to be in demand for a few.. Good luck !

should have know better,, the rules have always been clear.. They never changed, same 'ole rules.. Put it on Ebay... Lots of UHF repeater stuff posted lately.. Good luck....

Funny,,, money don't grow on trees... these linking guys were dependent on membership money to keep alive and we know that evaporated. (buff) Now many of these linking guys, whom 'had' 20+ repeaters in operation are stuck with all this equipment.. Wondering if this is why EBay has an uptick of UHF repeater equipment recently.

the way i look at it, SHTF would de a major emergency so having a radio capable of many bandwidths would be ideal (both portable and mobile). As you all know, during an emergency, Amateur Radio bands along with GMRS are open for emergency use without need of a license. Also having a few EMP bags around that can protect radio transceivers, laptops etc is a must have and easy to obtain through the 'right' channels. Also, keep a laptop you can easily stash in an EMP bag that has repeater sites, contact info, local police and emergency freqs, etc and other radio freq contact info for your immediate area. And old ammo can works well for storing extra batteries, chargers, some gold and extra pair of eye glasses.. Get her ready... Be prepared.

Na,, Not into the 'fratty' stuff.. Arguments and Politics is what makes life spin.. If i can't enjoy what i want to talk about,, screw em'. Have fun. Even most HAM clubs are learning not to fuk with our freedom of speech... It is what it is..........................

Living in Southern Calif and around a ton of repeaters, i can tell you that a very low percentage use their dam call sign. Nada.. In fact the ones that do are the funny ones... They are the ones for the most part asking for radio checks or 'reporting in'. All the others are 'where the fuk are we gonna eat, i need fuking gas, the deserts sucks, that jerk that just passed me is gonna get a fuking ticking and so on.. And every once in a while you'll hear some chick say her hubby passed out and she is coming over

True, but do you remember many people that used their call sign? 396 out

Don't mind Randy he is fixated on using Zello to chat with this men friends, but Zello is basically a walkie talkie app. Better explanation here. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/zello-app-guide,news-25805.html

we traveled further north from Houston. The highest GMRS traffic areas encountered were through Phoenix, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, St. Louis. Ohio ,Penn and New York really bad. Also noticed a lot of trucker traffic along the long interstates. They like to hang out on 18 and 6.. I talked with a few truckers, they all seem to have both CB and GMRS radios and they chit chat on both. Many of them saying they prefer GMRS. Not a single Trucker i talked with had a GMRS lic and most said they wouldnt even bother with getting one.. I would say 70% of the traffic i listened to, didn't use a GMRS lic call signs. But i did notice the Traffic in parts of Ohio, all of Penn and New York did use call signs and many using phonetic alphabet. Just like the CB, you get all the foul mouth chatter in most areas. I could not use the scanner function during most of the trip, else it would drive you nuts.. I did program my radio to scan my 4 favorite ch's and those kept pretty busy.. Also used many repeaters through the trip and most of them worked pretty good.. Repeater traffic seemed most prevalent in parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, Penn and New York. GMRS traffic was definaly pretty busy for most of the trip and having the GMRS mobile radio kept Highway boredom from kicking in..

GMRS is full of un-licensed users and jerks are wild. . The further you get away form metropolitan areas the better and more decent GMRS gets.. A few months ago traveling east from Arizona showed just how bad GMRS linking really was.. Hopefully GMRS will now recover a little bit but nothing is going to keep the 'jerks' from using the bands to chit chat as if they were on a CB.. Half of them don't have a license and never will.

i would say he is refering to electronic warfare which will undoubtedly be the aftermath of a nuclear war. We all know the effects and purpose this level of an attack will have on our the ability to communicate with other people across wide areas.. Yes you can stash your portables in a lead bag but what good will those radios do when all 'mountaintop repeater' is useless.. I think a lot of people underestiamae the potential this 'large-scale' event is feasible and i won't say what i think of those 'fools' Anyone with an open eye can see we are closer now then ever in history of pretty much total destruction. I do have a few portables and batteries stashed in lead bags which i acquired from someone that has easy access to them.. Do i really relay on them to communicate in event of a 'large scale' electromaganitic event.. NOPE, not really but doing a little is better than doing nothing.. just sayin..

Na,, they listen to Randy more then listening to the repeaters.

FCC will never sacrifice the GMRS band for repeater linking. There are places in the Amateur Radio Band with tons of bandwidth to accommodate the Hobby.. Way too much would be needed to allow it in the GMRS arena, The only way i see them allowing it is allocating the GMRS band to the Amateur Radio Band and require at minimum a Technicians Lic.. I don't see that happening and one reason i among many people have wrote the FCC objecting to any such moves.

Four listed nearby you (4=11 miles. One appears to be offline