WSBZ540 Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 Keep getting "Invalid call sign pattern. Please return and enter a valid GMRS pattern into the Owner field." When trying to add my repeater to repeaterbook. There's never been an 'owner' field so I assume its wanting the repeater call sign. But I continue to get that error over and over. Anyone have a thought on what I've gotten wrong here? Im using the website, not the app. Quote
SteveShannon Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 8 minutes ago, WSBZ540 said: Keep getting "Invalid call sign pattern. Please return and enter a valid GMRS pattern into the Owner field." When trying to add my repeater to repeaterbook. There's never been an 'owner' field so I assume its wanting the repeater call sign. But I continue to get that error over and over. Anyone have a thought on what I've gotten wrong here? Im using the website, not the app. Four letters followed by three numbers: in your case WSBZ540. Are you possibly putting in an O instead of a 0? Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 6 Author Report Posted May 6 No I thought I was, and just in case I went to the fcc site, copied the call sign, pasted in the browser. It just keeps on saying its invalid. I had to have a call sign to create the repeater book account, which seemed to be fine. Im a little stumped Quote
SteveShannon Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 14 minutes ago, WSBZ540 said: No I thought I was, and just in case I went to the fcc site, copied the call sign, pasted in the browser. It just keeps on saying its invalid. I had to have a call sign to create the repeater book account, which seemed to be fine. Im a little stumped I don’t blame you for being frustrated. I’ll report your post so Rich sees it. He’s the only one who can help. I hope it helps. Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 6 Author Report Posted May 6 well on the bright side, I could add it to myGMRS no problem. And it would storm the day I activate it..... Quote
SteveShannon Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 2 minutes ago, WSBZ540 said: well on the bright side, I could add it to myGMRS no problem. And it would storm the day I activate it..... Oh, you’re talking about Repeaterbook. None of us here can help you. I thought you were talking about this site. (Sorry Rich!) rdunajewski 1 Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 6 Author Report Posted May 6 Just now, Sshannon said: Oh, you’re talking about Repeaterbook. None of us here can help you. I thought you were talking about this site. (Sorry Rich!) Oh No.. Not a prob here. just repeater book... Quote
SteveShannon Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 Just now, WSBZ540 said: Oh No.. Not a prob here. just repeater book... I just misunderstood your first post. Quote
WRXB215 Posted May 7 Report Posted May 7 They have been making changes to the website and may have introduced a bug. Have you used the "Admin Contact" link to let them know you are having a problem? SteveShannon and WRZK593 2 Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 7 Author Report Posted May 7 I tried. Not sure where it goes. Still no luck today. Probably just won't worry about it at this point. Quote
WRQC527 Posted May 7 Report Posted May 7 13 minutes ago, WSBZ540 said: I tried. Not sure where it goes. Still no luck today. Probably just won't worry about it at this point. On a scale of 1 to 10, the MyGMRS repeater directory being 10, Repeaterbook is not very good. You're wise not to worry about it. WRUU653 1 Quote
WRXB215 Posted May 8 Report Posted May 8 Repeaterbook is primarily for ham repeaters. They added GMRS but isn't very well populated yet and will likely never catch up to myGMRS.com for GMRS repeaters. For GMRS, like @WRQC527 indicated, myGMRS.com is the gold standard. WRUU653 1 Quote
nokones Posted May 8 Report Posted May 8 Maybe Repeaterbook hasn't updated their tables/data base yet. Your licensed was issued a little over a month ago. Just be patient. WRXB215 1 Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 8 Author Report Posted May 8 1 hour ago, nokones said: Maybe Repeaterbook hasn't updated their tables/data base yet. Your licensed was issued a little over a month ago. Just be patient. My gmrs license was issued same day as others and they were able to add them. I suspect they have a bug in the web site. Maybe they will get it corrected this week. Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 8 Author Report Posted May 8 Well the call sign entry got fixed, now there is an error for 'Location'. So maybe later this week it'll be working. Quote
WSBZ540 Posted May 8 Author Report Posted May 8 Oh this getting comical. They wrote back and said location was fixed, but now you can't pick a state... I'll just give them a couple weeks to get the kinks out. SteveShannon 1 Quote
Davichko5650 Posted May 8 Report Posted May 8 8 hours ago, WRXB215 said: myGMRS.com is the gold standard. Platinum!!!! Quote
jnr0104 Posted May 12 Report Posted May 12 I gave up on repeater book for GMRS, they are good with ham, but too many glitches on GMRS in my opinion. Quote
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