So I heard a conversation happening on my TD-H3 today while I was doing a scan, nice people girl and a guy, the channel showed as 30, RPT 8 (default GMRS channel). I have looked up all the repeaters in my area and there are only a few. I live in a fairly decent sized city. 500K population in the metro area. 200K in the city itself. Unfortunately all of the repeaters in my vicinity that are listed although their power/distance show me to be well within range, there is a lot of hills and small mountains that block the signal to my house from the one repeater that is closest.
However Im curious, given that I heard some chatter on this repeater Im wondering how I would find out about it, I looked it up, that freq for my city and it basically found an old post saying it was run by an angry guy that would cuss anyone out on the air tell people to get off his repeater. This repeater, sounds like it would work for me since it's the first one in my area that I found that I heard chatter on. Also, that post about that guy was from 8 years ago so I doubt it's the same guy. So Im wondering should I just try using it and see what happens.
I actually got permission to use one repeater in my area, then found out I wasnt in a direct line of sight to it even though it's not that far.
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So I heard a conversation happening on my TD-H3 today while I was doing a scan, nice people girl and a guy, the channel showed as 30, RPT 8 (default GMRS channel). I have looked up all the repeaters in my area and there are only a few. I live in a fairly decent sized city. 500K population in the metro area. 200K in the city itself. Unfortunately all of the repeaters in my vicinity that are listed although their power/distance show me to be well within range, there is a lot of hills and small mountains that block the signal to my house from the one repeater that is closest.
However Im curious, given that I heard some chatter on this repeater Im wondering how I would find out about it, I looked it up, that freq for my city and it basically found an old post saying it was run by an angry guy that would cuss anyone out on the air tell people to get off his repeater. This repeater, sounds like it would work for me since it's the first one in my area that I found that I heard chatter on. Also, that post about that guy was from 8 years ago so I doubt it's the same guy. So Im wondering should I just try using it and see what happens.
I actually got permission to use one repeater in my area, then found out I wasnt in a direct line of sight to it even though it's not that far.
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