arn Posted December 21, 2023 Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 North Jersey seems pretty dead in the way of GMRS. Just putting a feeler out there to see if maybe I'm just missing the action or if everyone in NJ is just boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OffRoaderX Posted December 21, 2023 Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 GMRS is not really intended to find anonymous men to chat with for "action". For that kind of "action" you might want to look into H.A.M. radio or the Grindr app for your phone. GMRS is primarily intended for things like communicating with your group while off-roading, hiking, caravanning, etc. so in many/most places it is very quiet. gortex2 and SteveC7010 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arn Posted December 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 GMRS is not really intended to find anonymous men to chat with for "action". For that kind of "action" you might want to look into H.A.M. radio or the Grindr app for your phone. GMRS is primarily intended for things like communicating with your group while off-roading, hiking, caravanning, etc. so in many/most places it is very quiet. Just to be clear I need the H.A.M license in order to use the grindr app? Or is that a different license? WRHS218, WRUU653 and SteveShannon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRHS218 Posted December 21, 2023 Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 1 hour ago, arn said: Just to be clear I need the H.A.M license in order to use the grindr app? Or is that a different license? You are going to fit right in on this forum. As our resident Youtube hobo alluded to, GMRS is more of a bring your own contact radio service. I was in a large city yesterday where there are several repeaters and there was no radio traffic, except for me, on the repeaters. I was trying to reach a friend who was on the other side of the valley. He had made some changes to his handheld by accident and couldn't find the repeaters that were programmed into the radio. I did find out that the two repeaters I can reach are now linked. arn, WRUU653 and SteveShannon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian3211 Posted December 26, 2023 Report Share Posted December 26, 2023 I'm in Somerset County myself. just got my radio set up. I wanna test it out. arn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arn Posted December 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 On 12/26/2023 at 9:07 AM, ian3211 said: I'm in Somerset County myself. just got my radio set up. I wanna test it out. I'm most likely going to buy a uv-5r gmrs and just let family members use it so I can have someone to talk to. I guess its more about the novelty at first rather than the practicality. Can't wait to use these things in the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian3211 Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 yea i know. i hear repeater traffic i believe, sometimes its music or as of right now it's the news coming in and out. wish i can get a contacts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveShannon Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 12 minutes ago, ian3211 said: yea i know. i hear repeater traffic i believe, sometimes its music or as of right now it's the news coming in and out. wish i can get a contacts. If you’re hearing music and broadcast news it’s probably not a repeater. Or if it is they’re operating in violation of the regulations. Repeater traffic should only be people talking to each other. Because the frequencies you hear repeaters on are the same frequencies you hear people transmitting on using simplex it can be impossible to know if something is a repeater based on an occasional transmission unless you hear the repeater ID. WRXB215 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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