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You have your license and you are in one of the required areas. All you should need to do now is join mygmrs.com forums then you will have access to their web page on this site and hit the join button on their page. ? They have a webpage also https://midwestgmrs.org.

Is that what YES meant when they sang “shoot high, aim low”???

You are correct, it should. Try sending Rich a message https://mygmrs.com/contact you can report your own post too. Maybe log out and log in???

When it comes to repeaters (and privacy tones for that matter) I often equate tones to keys and locks. A TX tone on your radio is a key that can unlock the repeater (or radio with privacy tone) so you can transmit through it (or to it). The RX on your radio is the lock that prevents you hearing everything but what gets unlocked by the tone coming in from the repeater (or radio with proper tone). That’s why with no RX tone set on your settings you hear everything on the channel. As mentioned CTCSS and DCS are the tones.

Seems like most repeaters are CTCSS but in this case it’s DCS. These are still tones for repeaters and should be right in the same section of your manual that @Sshannon mentioned.

@WRXJ947 Those are the tones for both send (TX) and receive (RX) for both repeaters. Program those into your radio TX-DCS and RX-DCS in the appropriate repeater channel/frequency locations on your radio. you can leave the receive (RX) off if you like and you will hear all transmissions on the channel. This will help you make sure you are accessing the repeaters first then put them in if you only want to hear the repeaters transmissions in those channel locations.

You should become a premium member, Just saying… ?

I don't ever hear the coast guard on gmrs/frs or boats for that matter but I don't see why not other than it's one more thing to monitor. Boats are required to monitor channel 16. I do hear them on marine channels all the time where I am. I'm on the west coast. I listen in on these frequencies here...

REACT INTL ZELLO TEAM CHAT from Glendale? (actually looks like Gorman) looks like a possible better fit. It is in the coverage area and as the name states it’s on Zello. ...at least the map claims to have the coverage FWIW.

I guess, I mean he’s a dog so who knows why he says what he does ?

Check out the map page on the link above and go to your area. You have to log in there separately from here even though it’s Mygmrs also.

So if someone is putting a repeater up in the area they can avoid conflicting signals. A friendly heads up, it is not permitted to post repeater tones and info here in the forum unless it’s yours.

https://mygmrs.com/

This forum. ? FYI most GMRS radios (at least the ones I have) come with the offset already programmed in the predefined repeater channels.

My dog does this if it’s a radio, phone, iPad… and she is saying “put that down and pet me”! This happens multiple times a day every day.? for this photo though “this is w-o-o-f, do you have my food”?

I think it’s going to look great and I suspect the location will give you good performance. ?

You could possibly add in that position if you programmed the offset but then you would lose simplex for that channel and I don’t see that as being a good thing. Stick with the repeater locations after 22.

Channel 17 is simplex. You would need to program in channel 25 for repeater 462.6000. Repeaters frequencies can be programmed 23 and up.

I am not an expert on this stuff at all, my two cents worth (half off today) is the rear light mount has a few things going for it such as height, position and ground plane. I’d be interested to see how that scenario works with something like the laird antenna that @wayoverthere linked.

Last week I was talking with someone on GMRS via local repeater (he is also a ham) and a ham friend of his broke in to say hello (he had just gotten his GMRS lic.) he was welcomed to the dark side and he said do you guys say 73, the gentleman I was speaking with said yeah and 10-4 too ?. There are happy hams out there ?

@Lscott I am always impressed with the seemingly endless amount of information you have at the ready for download. Bravo sir. This is the limited amount I have programmed in that seems to get used here RR-ONBRD 160.440000 RR-PB 160.485000 RR-SLO 160.875000 RR-SL/SB 161.550000 On board, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara

I do like the KG-935G plus, that said you do receive more bands on the KG-1000G and 1000 Plus. It is also super het if that matters to you. A closer comparison would be the KG-UV9PX or KG-UV9G Pro if you want the more RX bands and super het. Just something to consider apples to apples so to speak. Which of course may or not matter to you. KG-UV9G Pro (KG-UV9PX) = Tx (MHz): 30 GMRS Frequencies 462.550-467.725 UHF (Tx locked to GMRS for Part 95E compliance) Rx (MHz, AM/FM): 76-108 FM Broadcast Radio • 108-136 AM AIR Band • 136-180 VHF • 230-250 VHF • 350-400 UHF • 400-512 UHF • 700-960 UHF KG-1000 GMRS (kG-1000 GMRS Plus) = Tx (MHz): 30 GMRS Frequencies 462.550-467.725 UHF (Tx locked to GMRS for Part 95E compliance) Rx (MHz, AM/FM): 76-108 FM Broadcast Radio • 108-136 AM AIR Band • 136-180 VHF • 230-250 VHF • 350-400 UHF • 400-512 UHF • 700-960 UHF KG-935G Plus = 30 GMRS Channels 136-174.995 MHz Receive Only VHF Frequencies 400-479.995 MHz Receive Only UHF Frequencies (70cm) FM Radio

I have only seen that specific issue when you try to program something you can’t. For instance if I grab some channels programed in a ham radio and move them to the GMRS radio in Chirp it will sometimes say some settings need to be changed or it will default to a non TX setting, something like that. Which is fine those are things I’m just putting it in for scanning anyway. You can’t do what you aren’t supposed to. There do seem to be some things Chirp doesn’t seem to do. For instance if I add a new channel via Chirp it automatically gets added as a “channel favorite” which is annoying because I have to go in and manually turn each added channel off in channel favorite settings on the radio. I tend to only go in and program things once and a while and when I do I will sometimes shift entire blocks of things around and then I’ll have to go in and change those all one at a time. For the most part though I am really pleased with how much easier front programming is compared to how my Baofeng UV-9G is. I really like the KG-935G Plus. Adding or changing things like tones on the fly or choosing a GMRS channel to skip in scanning because there’s noise on it just seems easier to me. The best advice I have for programming in Chirp (any radio software programming really) is to first save two copies downloaded from the radio, make all your changes in one while saving the first for backup.

One more line of sight tool for you @cavelamb, map and terrain tool. https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/rf-line-of-sight/

Well I may be chiming in a bit late but like @WRHS218 I have also picked up railroad traffic with my KG-935G Plus. Frequencies here are in the 160.’s