New "Rugged Guy" Clueless in PA. Need a mentor.

[Guest Rugged Guy]

OK, so I am one of those.  Buy a radio and read a lot, YouTube a lot and still lost.  Is anyone able to assist.  What are the rx/tx CCr language abbreviations?  is there a list of language abbreviations that can be shared?  I have rugged GMRS 2 Plus but am staring at it... If you have time, it would be appreciated.  RG

[Socalgmrs]

Join up here on the site with your gmrs call sign and read read read then ask specific questions. Gmrs is pretty darn simple. 

[OffRoaderX]

59 minutes ago, Guest Rugged Guy said:

What are the rx/tx CCr language abbreviations?

• RX = Receive
• TX = Transmit

CCR is a derogatory and racially motived term that "some people" use when describing a radio that does everything their very expensive radio does, but it costs 10X less monies.

[GreggInFL]

The GMRS lingo tends to be a subset of the HAM lingo, which is extensive: https://www.arrl.org/files/file/EC-016-Course/Glossary.pdf

You don't need 99% of that for GMRS.

(CCR = Cheap Chinese radio)

[SteveShannon]

1 hour ago, Guest Rugged Guy said:

OK, so I am one of those.  Buy a radio and read a lot, YouTube a lot and still lost.  Is anyone able to assist.  What are the rx/tx CCr language abbreviations?  is there a list of language abbreviations that can be shared?  I have rugged GMRS 2 Plus but am staring at it... If you have time, it would be appreciated.  RG

CCR is Credence Clearwater Revival if you’re my age, but around here it is shorthand for cheap Chinese radio. As @OffRoaderX said it’s intended to denigrate. 
There are a few other abbreviations that you’ll run into:

PL is short for Private Line, which is what Motorola marketed as their implementation of CTCSS.  There are other abbreviations for this as well. CTCSS keeps your squelch closed (radio audio output silent) unless it detects a specific audio tone included in a transmission. 
DPL means digital private line and is the same thing except with a digital code instead of an audio tone. It also has several other names such as DCS and DTCSS.

Neither DTCSS nor CTCSS provides any security but they do serve to reduce interruptions. 

[WRUU653]

1 minute ago, SteveShannon said:

CCR is Credence Clearwater Revival if you’re my age

[GreggInFL]

1 minute ago, SteveShannon said:

CCR is Credence Clearwater Revival if you’re my age...

Aw man, why didn't I think of that?

(< Slaps forehead)

[dosw]

• Tones (PL, CTCSS, DCS, Tone Squelch): All of these are just names for a way to filter out unwanted transmissions so that you only hear the ones you want, and so that others only hear you if they either have no tone set, or set a tone and use the tone you're transmitting with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Tone-Coded_Squelch_System
  • PL: Private Line (But it's not actually private, so it's poorly named)
  • CTCSS: Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System
  • DCS: Digital-Coded Squelch
  • DPL: Digital Private Line (Not actually private. Same as DCS)
• TX/RX: Transmit, or Receive
  • Often used in the context of tones:
    • If you set a Tx tone, you transmit that tone so others can use it in filtering out those transmitting without the tone.
    • If you set an Rx tone, you will only hear those transmitting with that same tone as their Tx tone.
    • Repeaters usually require you to use a Tx tone so that the repeater wakes up and listens to you. Repeaters may use an Rx tone so you can set your radio to only hear a channel when the repeater is transmitting that tone.
  • Often used in the context of reception: Example "My Rx is good, but nobody can hear me when I transmit", or "People hear me but my Tx is causing the radio to heat up."
• CCR: Cheap <Some country starting with "Ch"> Radio
  • Funny thing is that almost all radios are made in that country nowadays, regardless of the price. And if not that country, some other country that is not the US.
• SWR: Standing Wave Ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_wave_ratio
• Fars: A humorous term for describing how far a radio will communicate, paying attention to the fact that it is not typically reasonable to assert a given radio will transmit for a very specific distance in units like miles or kilometers. Rather than saying "Will transmit 38 miles", which is almost always incorrect for a given situation, people say "lots of fars" to indicate that the radio transmits about as well as any other radio, or "more fars" to indicate that with an antenna up high, the radio seems to have better propagation.
• Any other terms you need ad-hoc explanations for?

[Elmo777]

43 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

CCR is Credence Clearwater Revival if you’re my age, but around here it is shorthand for cheap Chinese radio. As @OffRoaderX said it’s intended to denigrate. 
There are a few other abbreviations that you’ll run into:

PL is short for Private Line, which is what Motorola marketed as their implementation of CTCSS.  There are other abbreviations for this as well. CTCSS keeps your squelch closed (radio audio output silent) unless it detects a specific audio tone included in a transmission. 
DPL means digital private line and is the same thing except with a digital code instead of an audio tone. It also has several other names such as DCS and DTCSS.

Neither DTCSS nor CTCSS provides any security but they do serve to reduce interruptions. 

Bahaha, CCR is short for creedence clearwater revival, I just felt old!!!!

[GreggInFL]

1 hour ago, Elmo777 said:

Bahaha, CCR is short for creedence clearwater revival, I just felt old!!!!

They were playing it at my recent high school reunion.  Free beer to the first person to guess which one.

[Elmo777]

8 minutes ago, GreggInFL said:

They were playing it at my recent high school reunion.  Free beer to the first person to guess which one.

55th 

 

 

[GreggInFL]

^Close.

[SteveShannon]

2 hours ago, Elmo777 said:

55th 

 

 

50th

[WRUU653]

2 hours ago, GreggInFL said:

They were playing it at my recent high school reunion.  Free beer to the first person to guess which one.

53?