WRVZ808 Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 Newly licensed. Still learning. Still green. I’m in East Tennessee, listening to what I believe is the North Georgia net? (Forgive me if my terms are off) My question is…when I hear folks giving their call sign, some follow it with another call sign of some sorts with a state or city, followed by a number. Or they use that last part to identify only. What are those for? Example: “This is WRQN123-Alabama129” or just “Chattanooga133 clear and monitoring” WRTG259 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 14 minutes ago, WRVZ808 said: Newly licensed. Still learning. Still green. I’m in East Tennessee, listening to what I believe is the North Georgia net? (Forgive me if my terms are off) My question is…when I hear folks giving their call sign, some follow it with another call sign of some sorts with a state or city, followed by a number. Or they use that last part to identify only. What are those for? Example: “This is WRQN123-Alabama129” or just “Chattanooga133 clear and monitoring” My guess is that the part after the dash is the network node they’re connected to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayoverthere Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 It may be that the network operators have assigned them a user id of sorts on the network, based, as @Sshannonmentions, on which node on the network they connect through SteveShannon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerstuff Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 North Georgia GMRS use Tac numbers after their call signs. That's the way they "prove" they are paid members. SteveShannon, WRUU653, wayoverthere and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerstuff Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 https://nggmrs.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerstuff Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 This is their site. I live in Monroe County (Coker Creek) TN & listen to them daily. SteveShannon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRVZ808 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Thanks for the responses! I assumed that was the case, but I couldn't know for sure. Not knowing of anyone in my area that uses GMRS to ask. I'm sure I will meet folks in my general area to learn from as time passes, but this forum will be my source of info to learn in the meantime. Thanks again! wayoverthere, SteveShannon, kerstuff and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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