How Do you Get Permission

[WRYS709]

On 8/7/2025 at 4:55 PM, WSJK595 said:

How do you get permission to use a repeater

When all else fails, I generally "sniff" out the access tone, and go on the repeater and ask for permission.

[CentralFloridaGMRS]

17 hours ago, Northcutt114 said:

Apparently the Ocala repeater is "down for maintenance" these days.

 

I wonder how they link them. They won't tell me 

[LilRedDog]

The timing of this is perfect for me:

 

I was listening in on a repeater and someone, that owns a different repeater, was driving through KY, (on a Ky repeater) trashing Ky.

They are on a repeater in Ky, their repeater is in Ky, they live in Indiana and trash talk Ky. It was not the first time.

So, I, politely, set the record straight; not on their repeater.

They lost that zone, came back on their repeater and started trash talking me, personally, (because he assumed if he was out of range of the other repeater I would be out of range of his?)

I told him I could hear him and he was just lying about what I had said.

So, he threatened to ban me from his repeater and get every repeater around me to also ban me and I laughed.

I sent out 'requests' in April, he replied with 'enjoy' to the official request and sent message saying he banned me, yesterday morning and saying he would talk to the other owners in the area... Threating me, again.

Well.

This is not about rude behavior, this is someone thinking they can group the repeater channels in the area and make them high school cliques.

There are 8 channels for repeaters. 

The section cited is who is allowed 'control' over the equipment. Not the use of.

It's America guys; you can broadcast on any frequency with any tone you are licensed to and if their, expensive, equipment cannot discriminate, I have no responsibility to spend a calorie changing the programming on my radio.

 

I should post screenshots and email chains but let's see if they want to have their $0.02 here.

 

 

[ChaoticRune]

1 hour ago, LilRedDog said:

I sent out 'requests' in April, he replied with 'enjoy' to the official request and sent message saying he banned me, yesterday morning and saying he would talk to the other owners in the area... Threating me, again.

Please forgive my incredibly dumb question here, and granted this could very well not be a thing, but technology for radios has changed since 1996 I have no clue: How does a repeater owner get around to banning someone? Is there some form of radio ID sent when you key up on one?

[LilRedDog]

3 minutes ago, ChaoticRune said:

Is there some form of radio ID sent when you key up on one?

There is.

The usual default is 0123 and I only see it in software.

It's editable; not hardcoded like the MAC on all network card/radios (Wi-Fi).

[Northcutt114]

19 hours ago, LeoG said:

W.A.G. for the win.

Enlighten me?

[Northcutt114]

2 hours ago, CentralFloridaGMRS said:

I wonder how they link them. They won't tell me 

I imagine it's some form of VOIP software. I'm not savvy enough to venture anymore of a guess than that.

 

[LeoG]

28 minutes ago, Northcutt114 said:

Enlighten me?

Wild azz guess for the win.