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GMRS is perfect for using with family while camping and hiking. Anything can be a hobby. Even the way Randy uses them they are at least a tool for his hobby. Most of all grandkids are the best and certainly a reason to be around. Best wishes on your health. I think you will be happy with your choice. Hobby - "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure."

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I have the Ham version of this radio. It works well, supper het and has AM bands if you want that. It is not waterproof, it is IP55 which means it can handle water to the face so would likely be okay in the rain. It comes with lots of preprogrammed scanner frequencies. The screen is not great outdoors. Of the Wouxon GMRS radios I would go with the KG-935G Plus. Although It isn’t waterproof either it is slightly higher rated at IP66. It isn’t supper het but you can’t tell. It won’t receive AM air bands but I don’t really listen to that and as for all the scanner frequencies I mostly put my own in. The KG-935G Plus is my favorite GMRS radio, solid and a bit easier to see outside. That’s just my opinion. On a pricier side the KG-Q10G will get you there with the waterproof IP67 rating. It scans a bit slower. My only gripe with the KG-Q10 radios is the lack of an indicator telling you if it was the upper or lower display that received the most recent transmission which would be nice if you happen to be monitoring two channel/frequencies at the same time. Edit- this turned out to be an issue with my radio and apparently is not indicative of the KG-Q10 radios. I recommend watching some reviews on YouTube and think of how you plan to use it. I hope some of this helps. Good luck.

Again you are stretching the facts. What we heard was someone who works at the FCC and had a relationship with the owner advised him to shut it down. That's not the same as the FCC saying shut it down and it's still second hand. You can "maybe this" and "maybe that" all day but the fact is we have no confirmation from the owner of anything. You are entitled to opinons on what may have happened, we all are but it doesn't make it so. Hell I'm not a fan of the idea of linking GMRS repeaters but that doesn't mean I'm streching the facts to support how I feel.

Am I missing something here? Why do you need an inverter for a power supply for your mobile radio to use in the car? Did I understand that right? The Midland MXT500 will run off the car power, it’s already 13.8 volts. Or is it for something else?

Welcome Gary

What we think we know happened is only hearsay as we have never directly heard from the repeater owner himself or the FCC on the subject. Exaggerating what the facts are doesn’t make an opinion fact. As long as there is no comment by the actual parties involved and I mean the FCC or the actual repeater owner, then this argument will go no where. I really can’t get all worked up over some private citizen shutting down his own repeaters if they are not saying anything on the subject. Nothing to see here. It’s like saying Alvin said Bob up the street won’t let his friends use his bathroom anymore because the city is going to fine him for using too much water. But you don’t know Alvin. You don’t know Bob. And Bob has never said anything to you. And the city hasn’t said anything to you. And who cares if Bob doesn’t want anyone in his bathroom. It sure isn’t conclusive that you or anyone else can’t share their bathroom. Even if it was on YouTube.

@WSCW485, @Lman57, @AZCOP any and everyone else new to the forum recently that I might have missed welcome to mygmrs!

I hope you don’t mind, I took the liberty of fixing it for you.

I would support @OffRoaderX's statement of testing the radios outside. Make sure the radios work and it's not some interference from one or both vehicles taking place. Also try different channels (frequencies) and see if that makes a difference. As an example my fathers Subaru Forester hates 444.100 (local ham repeater) for some reason, but just that frequency. One of these days I may see if I can figure out what causes it, maybe.

I can also say I have not had this issue. For context I’m a Mac user so I never bothered with the programming software as none was available from Chirp and I hate digging out the old XP lap top. I found it easy enough to program from the radio and I think I’ve been using it for about a year with no issues. I like Randy’s ( @OffRoaderX ) suggestion, I would go with that. Good luck, let us know how it goes.

Thanks, I guess I goofed that. Went back and fixed it. I guess I entered the wrong linking code to the electronic device… thank goodness it wasn’t an emergency depending on that

I understand your point here which makes sense for radio geeks like us, the problem I see is thinking that non radio people will understand tones… I mean how many times do people come here asking questions about tones? Here is one just from today. Most people that get an FRS radio just use it out of the box with whatever tones are or aren’t there. This is a large percentage of people that could be excluded from emergency monitoring.

Absolutely or even better they shouldn’t use tones. If I am in a situation where I’m using a radio in an emergency I think I’d like to be sure anyone could hear the call. The idea that someone has to have a particular tone set for an emergency call added with the fact that one manufacturer numbers may well be different than another seems to be promoting a problematic situation. I imagine the thinking is with tones set specifically for an emergency that one only needs to monitor those transmissions but this only helps those that know and understand tones. My two cents at today’s discounted price of zero cents.

FRS radios won’t transmit on repeater input frequencies but they certainly can hear them and their ID tones as the receive frequencies are the same.

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I personally don’t like hearing two channels at once so I turn simultaneous receive off. You can still use duel display but only hear one at a time.

African or European?

Okay, okay, I get it… These repeaters are close to The Mars Rover (161.64 million miles give or take) when compared to Voyager 1 (15.2 billion miles). I have no idea how long that takes in a boat. This is fun.

Click on the link in my first post.

Have you tried resetting the frequency range via front programming first? Make sure to save all your programs first as this will wipe out anything on the radio.

I don’t think anyone can at this point. It seems to me there is a lot of speculation and assumptions on the topic and we are lacking real information about this. A few things we don’t know that might shed some light on the subject like what is the reason they were requesting the system be shut down? What is the relationship of the owner of the system and the FCC? I for one would be interested in the interview with the person who was actually requested to shut down the system. Anything else is second hand information at best.

but not the second part which says "for the sole purpose" and at the end of the day it's all from the FCC and they make the rules. Also no dog in this fight.

“You cannot directly interconnect a GMRS station with the telephone network or any other network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications, but these networks can be used for remote control of repeater stations.” § 95.1749 GMRS network connection. Operation of a GMRS station with a telephone connection is prohibited, as in § 95.349. GMRS repeater, base and fixed stations, however, may be connected to the public switched network or other networks for the sole purpose of operation by remote control pursuant to § 95.1745. This what they say...

Once you obtain your GMRS license you can join the repeater site as well as this forum. It may take a few days after getting your license to join here as this site gets it's data from a download at the FCC.