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Ah, I see. You were proposing it as an alternative to the aforementioned voice scrambling.

Sorry I miss read 12 as 120 (Tacoma’s have that as well). I was typing while the dog was begging for steak from the bbq. I didn’t mean to over complicate it. Now about that cup of water, is it half full or?

Just as your radio has a TX and RX so does the repeater. It’s basically a radio as well, one that forwards what it receives on one frequency 467.xxx to another 462.xxx.

It’s a conscious choice. So the party on the other end knows if someone is on the channel in simplex and/or the repeater.

Whatever you do don’t hook it up to the 120 volt (unless you like smoke). These radios are designed to run off the car’s battery. You can plug it into the 12 volt dc cigarette lighter type outlet if you want to keep it temporarily installed or for a more permanent use run the wires back to the battery, red + terminal for red wire and battery grounding terminal for the black wire. FYI I don’t remember what the fuse size is for the cigarette lighter outlet, check your Toyota manual if you decide to use that. The fuse size should be equal or greater than the radios 15 amp. I believe it is.

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You will need to get them from their club. Click here Texas GMRS Network

@JamesBrox what you may want to do and what I have done is program one set of the eight repeater channels with a TX tone of 141.3 then you will be able to use an open repeater with that tone. Don't set a tone for the RX if you want to hear everything on that channel regardless if the repeater is using that tone or not. When you make a contact verify it is an open repeater free to use. Most that use that tone are but some may not be.

I seem to recall that it is contingent on the last weather alert channel you set it to is the one that looks for alerts. So if you are not set on one for your area you won’t get the alert. I was surprised one day when I got an alert having not ever received one before. Check pages 39-42 and 55. [07: WX-ALERT] Weather Alert Function: Enables and disables the weather alert. Sets the alert for the currently select- ed NOAA weather channel. Options: ON/OFF Default: OFF

Here is a list of the numbers for Midland tones

What if, and this is strictly hypothetical mind you... you were just to follow the rules? No enforcement letter needed.

Sounds right. I’m certain I saw one on a Jeep. It wasn’t a rubicon though.

I prefer to refer to it as the Randy Beep.

You will need to contact Rich aka @rdunajewski to do this but it is possible as others have done this before.

I’m guessing you are right about that. Still not a bad call sign though.

Welcome to Mygmrs @DarrylLicht

Welcome to the forum @WRYQ685 and @WRYQ274 … When you go to the map page click on the little gear in the upper left hand corner and select stale and offline repeaters. Frequently when a repeater owner hasn’t updated their info to the site their repeater will fall off the map into the stale category but will still be available. It looks like there are several more repeaters on the island and some open with great coverage. Aloha.

I do not have this particular Boofwang (nod to Randy) but when I use chirp on another Baofeng I can and do use the duplex off selection in Chirp to prevent keying up on frequencies I want locked out. Yes, it works for my radio at least and to clarify I put it in the OFF position in Chirp as opposed to leaving it blank.

Fair enough. For the record my post was not meant as personal.

I have the same experience where I am as well. My My concern though isn't that you don't have another channel to use, it is with linked repeaters you may be stepping on other people using simplex and not know it. You might not even be on the same frequency or even in the same state. There are a limited number of frequencies in GMRS and as the FCC says "You must cooperate in the selection and use of the channels in order to make the most effective use of them and to reduce the possibility of interference". It's not as simple as if you don't like them stay off of them. It's not that I'm totally against linked repeaters, part of the reason I recently went for my ham license was so I could use linked repeaters and be able to reach out anywhere in my area (hiking or offroad) especially where the cell service drops out.

There's no need to be angry. I can see you have a personal attachment to this subject. So do you think it's cool for a GMRS repeater network where if someone keys up on one channel that they are also being transmitted in the same area on other channels/frequencies tying up two or three channels in the same area or other areas for that matter? This isn't hypothetical, it's been described as much in another thread where an individual is transmitting on one repeater and hearing on another channel because they are linked by repeaters. As I see it unless you are monitoring all of the other frequencies you wouldn't even know if you are stepping on other simplex transmissions. I mean it seems worth a conversation to take into consideration there are other people that like to talk on radios too and people on simplex have just as much right to the frequencies as those on repeaters.

... and if they want amateur radio why not go and get it? thank you for the laugh, got to clean up this coffee now.

I have a thought on a particular use case where I think having a linked GMRS repeater is okay (in my opinion) and that would be within the same local area on the same frequency with the same tones to get better coverage within that area. I'm not talking across a whole state but more like within the same county to get to places where the terrain or perhaps smaller wattage repeaters could help each other to cover a community.

There could be something happening with the Capilla repeater I suppose. It’s cool you can hit Caballo. With the repeaters antennas on mountains you’d be surprised how far and clear you can hit. Saturday morning I reached a local repeater where I live from 70 miles out because I was up on a mountain and had line of site. You may already be aware of this site but if not this is the tool I use to check line of site around me.