Over use of call sign announcements on GMRS

[SvenMarbles]

It kind of seems to me like so many social GMRS users are eager to shout out their call signs on the air. 
 

Why?

 

is it like a radio-cool thing? Or you just genuinely want to shout out your home address to goobers with mustard stains on their shorts?

It’s also legal to run it off in fast CW and ASSUREDLY no GMRS users would know how to deal with it. Legal.

Your license situation is between you and the FCC. You don’t need to share it with every mouth breather on the air…

[OffRoaderX]

[amaff]

It kind of seems to me like so many GMRS users are eager to police what other people do on the air. 

Why?

[OffRoaderX]

10 minutes ago, amaff said:

It kind of seems to me like so many GMRS users are eager to police what other people do on the air. 

 They have a mental/emotional defect that makes them crave power and control - often because in their life, they have none.

[UncleYoda]

56 minutes ago, SvenMarbles said:

eager to shout out their call signs on the air. 
Why?

There are more important concerns with GMRS use.

[LeoG]

I'm sparse with my call sign only because I'm lazy.  If I'm telling my wife "I'm on the way home" I might not even say it.  But usually because I said it earlier when she called me to ask when I might be heading home. 

And most don't know how to look up a license ID to make it into an address.  I think when you go to the FCC site it doesn't give out the address only the name.  I know here the lookup tells you everything.

[LeoG]

Front page doesn't show it.  You have to click on the linked license ID to get the address.

 

So my bad.

[OffRoaderX]

4 minutes ago, LeoG said:

And most don't know how to look up a license ID to make it into an address.

Someone should make a video on Youtube explaining how simple it is to do...

[LeoG]

Troublemaker.

[WRUE951]

Say What

[LeoG]

What

[H8SPVMT]

Using it when you sign off is all that is required, I thought.

[WRUE951]

Overuse of call signs are the guys that set their auto CW's on their repeaters every 15 mins of the hour regardless of traffic.  Especially the ones that have to announce the date, time, temp, and city..   Crazy as hell 

[SteveShannon]

12 hours ago, SvenMarbles said:

It kind of seems to me like so many social GMRS users are eager to shout out their call signs on the air. 
 

Why?

 

is it like a radio-cool thing? Or you just genuinely want to shout out your home address to goobers with mustard stains on their shorts?

It’s also legal to run it off in fast CW and ASSUREDLY no GMRS users would know how to deal with it. Legal.

Your license situation is between you and the FCC. You don’t need to share it with every mouth breather on the air…

Why does it bother you?  

[WRKC935]

12 hours ago, SvenMarbles said:

It kind of seems to me like so many social GMRS users are eager to shout out their call signs on the air. 
 

Why?

 

is it like a radio-cool thing? Or you just genuinely want to shout out your home address to goobers with mustard stains on their shorts?

It’s also legal to run it off in fast CW and ASSUREDLY no GMRS users would know how to deal with it. Legal.

Your license situation is between you and the FCC. You don’t need to share it with every mouth breather on the air…

Why do I catch this nonsense first thing in the morning and feel compelled to even bother to say something?

First off WTF are you talking about?  Are you referring to someone putting out there call sign on a repeater to see if others are also on the repeater?

You answered that question in your own before anyone else ever could, THEY ARE BEING SOCIAL  It's sort of HOW THEY CHOSE TO USE THE SERVICE.

WTF do you care?  You decided to post about it here so it must really effect you.  Do you loose sleep at might over it?  Does it plague your dreams?  Is effecting your performance in the bedroom?

The cure for any and all of that is tuning your radio to a channel without a repeater and turning off the scan function.  Then you will NOT hear those pesky SOCIAL GMRS users calling out their ID's morning noon and night being social. 

 

And Randy, if you are looking for a topic for a video how about No being a TROLL

 

[OffRoaderX]

1 hour ago, WRKC935 said:

if you are looking for a topic for a video how about No being a TROLL

I'm afraid that I am not familiar enough with that topic to make a video about it..