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  1. You'll be lucky if it arrives in one piece. They beat the crap out of anything I have had shipped through them.
  2. Hmm, I'll have to try and see if I can hit it from my mobile. HT from my place would be pushing it. It used to have a voice ID'er on it, come to think of it I haven't heard that in a while.
  3. Question is, is that an open repeater or "members only" like the rest of their system?
  4. I would guess you may be hearing people using FRS radios that are required to be narrowband. If your receiver is set to wideband the audio from someone transmitting narrowband will sound low.
  5. Good info. I didn't know there was a repeater in Wilmington. I don't know if Gordon checks requests here, but he's got his phone number in the listing. I gave him a call late last year to request permission.
  6. The Dayton 700 repeater https://mygmrs.com/repeater/2093 has wide area coverage. Its listing sometimes doesn't show up here for whatever reason, but it is on the air. Just call the owner at the phone number in the listing to request to use it. The owner of the Tipp repeater says he's been able to hit it from a HT in the Nick's restaurant parking lot near the fairgrounds, so it may work for you as well. There's an unlisted repeater near Xenia that I have heard occasionally but it's been off recently. If you have DMR radios in your group and need a repeater to use here is the website for the DMR repeater nearest to Xenia. http://tim-yvonne.com/ham/dmr/index.htm
  7. I heard that chip issues played into Kenwood discontinuing or at least stopping production on some of their ham gear.
  8. I currently have a DMR radio and will be getting a P25 radio shortly. I'm in the Dayton area and got connected to the P25 group here so I'm going to work through their programming guide and see if I can get up and running on that system.
  9. Like anything, it's a mixed bag. The folks I've talked to on the local GMRS repeaters have all been pleasant. I got my ham license not long ago and discovered a good community there too locally. Many of the local GMRS users and the repeater owners also have ham licenses and I found out I work with quite a few hams as well. As for MURS, I don't think there is as much a community around it, but I found that it is useful for outdoor simplex comms in the woods away from town where you won't find the band busy with business users. However, in the next town over there's a group running a bunch of linked repeaters on GMRS requiring paid membership and the impression I get from the outside is that they would put the sad hams to shame.
  10. Back in the fall I got some MURS radios for my wife and I to use at a Scout camp because I thought they might work better than GMRS due to the wooded and slightly rolling terrain. The place has lots of trees and the leaves were still on at that point. I didn't get a chance to do an A/B test vs. GMRS radios but did get some anecdotal evidence from another family who had some GMRS radios and said they had found some dead spots. We didn't find any dead spots with our radios.
  11. Yeah, I meant the low power (<=0.5w) channels 8-14.
  12. My kids aren't old enough to have the maturity for proper handling of "real" GMRS radios, so I keep my good ones locked up. They have a couple of little blue radios that run about a quarter watt at most, and I keep them on the FRS channels only.
  13. I'm not too worried about that. I've picked up a different Kenwood radio for the ham bands that can be "opened up" but it will be some time before I have time to get it installed in the car. Have to run power for it, the Wouxun has a smaller draw and can be run from the lighter plug.
  14. I recently picked up one as well and have been very happy with it so far.
  15. Around here when I'm in town there is activity near the Walmart stores and something that is transmitting an electronic chiming doorbell like noise on one of the channels. I'm guessing that's either a wireless doorbell or driveway alarm. When I was out away from town all of the channels were completely quiet.
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