Photoman5k

This is the funniest F*king thread i've seen in a long time.  You guys are a great resource for me!

That is actually much better and clearer than what the FCC gives as a definition. And you managed to do it without using "Fixed Station" as part of your definition. ?
 
As an aside I give you all this from the office of the federal register pulled from the website of the federal archives. It's a guide on writing definitions for regulations. If you read through it then read through the definitions in the FCC's regulations you will very quickly see that the FCC itself has a hard time following guidelines. ?. Pay close attention to #4 ?
And of course for those that don't like following links I quoted it below.
Now I hope with the answer to the question finally out in the world we can allow this thread to go the way of the Dodo. 
 

Don't know how it could be misinterpreted the regulations are pretty clear on it.
 

Don't know how it could be misinterpreted the regulations are pretty clear on it.
 

You wouldn't be suggesting people use the busy channel lockout function on their radios would you? ?
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who actually uses that function on their radios lol.
Seriously though, I'll sit and listen to 4 or five or more people shoot the shit on any given night and always hear people walking on one another and it annoys the crap out of me because it doesn't have to happen.
I'm the keeper of the radios for my little group of people and every single one of our radios is programed the same and every single one is set up with BCL on every single freq on GMRS for repeaters AND Simplex channels that we use. There should be no reason anyone is walking over anyone else's transmission because the radio has a feature built into it to keep that from happening. Why people don't use it is mind boggling to me.  (ETA: It annoys me more than people using roger beeps and call functions)
What types of groups? When I read that I pretty much read it as people using GMRS for purposes outside the scope of what the service is intended for. Oddly I think a lot of GMRS use by most people (myself included) is outside the scope of what GMRS was intended for.
Yes most of my use is also outside that scope as I mainly use it with friends more then family however it's used to facilitate our activities, on fishing trips, backpacking, hunting, camping, hiking, road trips, things of that nature. We don't use it for long conversations that are better had over the phone. We still use phones while doing those things if we need to talk to someone about something and that conversation is going to be more then something quick like hey were jumping off at this exit or need help dragging a deer or hey everyone come back to camp lunch is about ready, things like that. About the only time we use them for more then that were doing something like paintball or airsoft. But that's the type of stuff that it was meant for. It wasn't/isn't meant for nets and fat chewing sessions and a lot of the stuff that it's being used for.

I gave you an example of what a fixed station is. Other people gave you examples of what it is. From the example I gave you alone you should have been able to figure out that whatever it is you want to do or buy, a fixed station is not something you have to worry about.
You're overthinking this whole thing. A fixed station has nothing to do with whatever it is your wanting to do, not knowing what that is exactly you want to do I'm still 1000% sure of it. If you're looking to set up a base station, you don't have to worry about it because a base station isn't a fixed station, and a fixed station isn't a base station.
Unless your looking to use a GMRS radio to set up some type of alarm system, or two-way intercom system or something similar you don't need to worry about what a fixed station is.
Stop overthinking things and just do what it is you were planning to do. 

I gave you an example of what a fixed station is. Other people gave you examples of what it is. From the example I gave you alone you should have been able to figure out that whatever it is you want to do or buy, a fixed station is not something you have to worry about.
You're overthinking this whole thing. A fixed station has nothing to do with whatever it is your wanting to do, not knowing what that is exactly you want to do I'm still 1000% sure of it. If you're looking to set up a base station, you don't have to worry about it because a base station isn't a fixed station, and a fixed station isn't a base station.
Unless your looking to use a GMRS radio to set up some type of alarm system, or two-way intercom system or something similar you don't need to worry about what a fixed station is.
Stop overthinking things and just do what it is you were planning to do. 

It's been answered. 

That is actually much better and clearer than what the FCC gives as a definition. And you managed to do it without using "Fixed Station" as part of your definition. ?
 
As an aside I give you all this from the office of the federal register pulled from the website of the federal archives. It's a guide on writing definitions for regulations. If you read through it then read through the definitions in the FCC's regulations you will very quickly see that the FCC itself has a hard time following guidelines. ?. Pay close attention to #4 ?
And of course for those that don't like following links I quoted it below.
Now I hope with the answer to the question finally out in the world we can allow this thread to go the way of the Dodo. 
 

FFS, are you still arguing over this?  4 pages of trying to prove who's smarter over something that the FCC (based on their history of action) doesn't even care about? ..."some people" .... Need to go outside more often...
Just sayin...

For as smart as you seem to be I cannot believe that what I said went over your head the way it did. A definition should not include in it the word/term/object being defined. 
 Thats what the FCC did. That makes the definition clear as mud.
That definition tells you what a "fixed station" can or cannot do, not what it is.
If I ask you to define what a door is you can define it without using the word door in the definition can u not? Ok then so lets define a fixed station or give an example that would be a bit easier to understand rather than just keep regurgitating the same FCC definition that doesn't actually define what it is, but only tells us what it is allowed to do or not do.
@UncleYoda I found this on an old thread on radioreferance.com forums thought i'd share it with you maybe it will help you a bit.
 

This is why you should never use the word/term that you're defining in the definition of it... You would think the FCC would stay away from doing such things to avoid confusion. But then again government agencies aren't known for doing things that make sense...

3 pages of arguing over a control station, fixed station....yet we help guys use non certified radios for use......im baffled...
 

See that very last line? re-read it. As long as the person using the station(repeater) properly IDs there is no requirement for the repeater to ID. Thank you have a nice day.

It's been discussed way more times then i can count on this site alone and the consensus is that they do not have to ID. If they did have to ID don't you think a crapload of repeater owners would have already been ticketed/fined/ whatever by the FCC for not IDing? And we would have heard about it from them? I think so. Your interpretation of those regs is different than other peoples interpretations of those regs. I trust the explanation/interpretation given by someone else who runs multiple repeaters that are part of this very linked system as it would be in his best interest to have a very good understanding of the issue or not.

Im sitting here in SE Wisconsin about 7miles southeast of the Armored RX repeater and Ive been picking up a couple of ya'lls repeaters, one on 700, I think It's the VALPO 01 based on the RX tone and one or maybe 2 on 675 earlier today. I could hear traffic using two different RX tones, so I'd have to guess it was from both the Valpo675 and LaPorte675 as the tones matched both of those. Still picking up the one on 700 as I write this and I'm sitting in my basement writing this. We aren't linked into the system tonight, so I know for sure i'm not hearing you through the system. What are ya'll feeding those things? They are beasts tonight. ? 
 

I dont normally program from the properties like that. I programed a channel into my radio using the freq and rx tx code. 
if i open up the memory properties mine looks like this. 
Frequency: 462.625
Name: RPT18
Tone Mode: Cross
Tone: 229.1
ToneSql: 85.4
Tone Mode: Tone->Tone
DTCS Tone: 23
Rx DTCS Tone: 23
DTCS Pol: NN
Duplex: +
Offset: 5.000000
Mode: FM
Skip:
Power: High