GrumpyGrunt Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 Best hide yer chillens! WSDR581 has joined the Fray! Quote
SteveShannon Posted July 11 Report Posted July 11 1 minute ago, WSDR581 said: Best hide yer chillens! WSDR581 has joined the Fray! But not our women? Welcome! I think. Quote
WSDR948 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 On 6/16/2024 at 8:35 PM, BoxCar said: Yup, welcome to the zoo! Oh, I should fit right in then! Hi, I'm Gary and I'm a recovering CBer! WRUU653 1 Quote
BoxCar Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 31 minutes ago, WSDR948 said: Oh, I should fit right in then! Hi, I'm Gary and I'm a recovering CBer! 10-4 Good Buddy! WRUU653 and WRXR255 2 Quote
WRUU653 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 2 hours ago, WSDR948 said: Oh, I should fit right in then! Hi, I'm Gary and I'm a recovering CBer! Welcome Gary Quote
WRXR255 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 3 hours ago, BoxCar said: 10-4 Good Buddy! RayDiddio 1 Quote
WSDR948 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 Hmmm, I wonder what kind of response I would get if I said "recovering HAM"? (W4GSK) WRXR255 1 Quote
WRXB215 Posted July 12 Report Posted July 12 1 hour ago, WSDR948 said: Hmmm, I wonder what kind of response I would get if I said "recovering HAM"? (W4GSK) Is that even possible? WRXR255 1 Quote
WRWH867 Posted July 20 Report Posted July 20 Finally getting around to joining up. Got my ham license just to prove they'll give those to any yahoo, but I'm currently only using my GMRS radios for SXS adventures, mostly in the TN area. WRWH867 / K8GRX LeeBo 1 Quote
GrumpyGrunt Posted July 24 Report Posted July 24 Thanks for the welcome... WSDR581 is in the house! LOL! Lman57 1 Quote
Crazy Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 WSDX855 New license here. Just got a tid H3 ham/grms radio. Seems tho that the ham side has way more activity than gmrs. I do nothing all day but try to respond to someone that I hear, but figure they are on a repeater and can't hear me. No one is local so the radio in gmrs mode doesn't do much for me. Should have spent more time listening first. But, so far, definitely not impressed with the gmrs side of my radio as I can't talk to anybody in 5 states, (I travel). So I don't know what to do in gmrs. I'm not a business with 20 radios on site. I'm just a one man band looking to communicate with others. But find it really hard to do with gmrs. My radio scans all day and evening, (all 22 channels and all the repeaters) but nothing but a repeater noise or a good clear signal from someone over the ohio river in kentucky while I'm in lower indiana this month. When I get back to texas will try to see if anyone uses gmrs in the DFW metro area, as I work on my amateur license. I watch so many youtube channels, but none of them get into really programming a unit, purpose of having them, etc. There is good useful info, but nothing to get you on the air. My main issue is, when I put my radio in normal mode; amateur and gmrs, I have to figure out how to manually create channels with codes etc. In gmrs mode it programs the radio for all gmrs, weather and I think am/fm radio, but haven't figured out how to get those channels yet. Hoping to one day find a book that is easy to read to help with that. In the meantime, I'll just keep calling out CQ WSDX855, looking to talk with another. If you hear me (lower indiana, lower illinois, across the mountains of arkansas (little rock sucks to drive thru, the mountain routes are sooo much nicer, and the views!!!) across the middle and southeast part of Oklahoma and into north Texas, holler back..... Crazy Eagle, Lakota Sioux Quote
SteveShannon Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 Crazy Eagle, if you don’t have the repeater input codes set correctly people listening on repeaters won’t hear you. Take a look at Notarubicon videos. They’re the most complete videos that explain GMRS. Calling CQ isn’t really a thing on GMRS. Welcome to the forum! WRUU653, WRXB215, RayDiddio and 1 other 4 Quote
Socalgmrs Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 Sooo 1. gmrs really is a bring your own friends. Not really ment for finding strangers to talk to on the radio. But if you use this site and others to find local repeaters and get them programmed in with tones and off set you MAY make new radio friends. 2. Ham is for that reason and many bands travel many many more miles then the gmrs bands. 3. Dfw has many gmrs users. 4. the best/easiest way to program a radio, ham or gmrs, is with software and a laptop/computer and a programming cable. Quote
OffRoaderX Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 29 minutes ago, Crazy said: I'll just keep calling out CQ WSDX855 If you pull that sadhamkrap in these parts you will get laughed off the repeater. RayDiddio, back4more70 and Davichko5650 1 1 1 Quote
SteveShannon Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 On 7/11/2024 at 5:24 PM, GrumpyGrunt said: Best hide yer chillens! WSDR581 has joined the Fray! Welcome! Quote
RayDiddio Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 36 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said: If you pull that sadhamkrap in these parts you will get laughed off the repeater. You forgot to remind him about the roger beep! WRXR255, GreggInFL and WRZU673 3 Quote
Horsesrear Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 Just got my license and a couple handhelds. Still learning the basics and looking forward to belonging to this forum RayDiddio and WRUU653 2 Quote
Socalgmrs Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 37 minutes ago, Horsesrear said: Just got my license and a couple handhelds. Still learning the basics and looking forward to belonging to this forum Welcome to the gmrs world. Quote
BoxCar Posted August 3 Report Posted August 3 2 hours ago, Horsesrear said: Just got my license and a couple handhelds. Still learning the basics and looking forward to belonging to this forum 37 minutes ago, WRUU653 said: Welcome to the forum @Horsesrear Ahh, let the spending begin! The best hand held/mobile radio are the ones that meet your needs - and no, you don't need a repeater! WRUU653, Socalgmrs and RayDiddio 3 Quote
WSEB618 Posted August 8 Report Posted August 8 Hello there to everyone! My name is Jim. Brand new GMRS user here Recently joined on after paying up to the FCC. Hope you all are doing well and in good spirits! WRUU653 1 Quote
WRXB215 Posted August 8 Report Posted August 8 @WSEB618 Welcome to GMRS! WSEB618 and WRUU653 1 1 Quote
WRUU653 Posted August 8 Report Posted August 8 52 minutes ago, WSEB618 said: Hello there to everyone! My name is Jim. Brand new GMRS user here Recently joined on after paying up to the FCC. Hope you all are doing well and in good spirits! Welcome aboard Jim WSEB618 1 Quote
SteveShannon Posted August 8 Report Posted August 8 3 hours ago, WSEB618 said: Hello there to everyone! My name is Jim. Brand new GMRS user here Recently joined on after paying up to the FCC. Hope you all are doing well and in good spirits! Welcome! WSEB618 1 Quote
WSEB794 Posted August 9 Report Posted August 9 Hello from Louisiana. Just got my License and a couple cheap radios to play with. My main purpose in doing this is, small town emergency com and travel with family. If I enjoy it long term, I may move on to ham. We shall see. WRUU653 and SteveShannon 2 Quote
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