RadioReference for different states

[offroadkid]

We are traveling from Northern California, through Oregon, Washington into Idaho for Thanksgiving.  I love to drive, and I especially love driving in bad weather!

I connected my radio to CHIRP Software and chose RadioReference from the pulldown menu and it shows my local emergency list that I was able to download to the radio, but how do I figure out how to get it to show me the listings for other states so I can just download those to the radio also?  It will only show El Dorado County, (my location).

Thank you!

[SteveShannon]

2 hours ago, offroadkid said:

We are traveling from Northern California, through Oregon, Washington into Idaho for Thanksgiving.  I love to drive, and I especially love driving in bad weather!

I connected my radio to CHIRP Software and chose RadioReference from the pulldown menu and it shows my local emergency list that I was able to download to the radio, but how do I figure out how to get it to show me the listings for other states so I can just download those to the radio also?  It will only show El Dorado County, (my location).

Thank you!

When you are at this dialog box, just as you enter radioreference from Chirp, change the zip code to the location you want:

[BoxCar]

Use Repeater Book. You can specify listings by highway in each state you are planning to visit.

[WRXB215]

6 hours ago, BoxCar said:

Use Repeater Book.

That is what I use but beware many of the listings are not up to date. Traveling across Texas I get about one out of ten that returns any kind of tone or squelch tail. Out of those, it is hit or miss as to actually getting a human response. And that is mostly ham repeaters. GMRS is even more sparse.

Edited Friday at 03:18 AM by WRXB215
Added info.

[WSEZ903]

Why not google search GMRS clubs for areas you are going to or even FaveBook?  Might be able to find listings of active repeaters.