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| Looking at life thru a windshield  |
I am still learning all this myself but the first thing I learned is that the UV-5R is only a HAM radio, you should not be using it on GMRS channels unless it really is a SHTF situation. I bought a pair for that situation alone. Went ahead and got my GMRS license and a set of GMRS radios and yes they are set up to broadcast and receive on the repeaters with preprogrammed channels. The UV-5r being a HAM can be programmed for the channels with the offset so that they work on HAM repeater which would also be the case on GMRS. The a/b channels are for monitoring two different channels, when you program the offset it will do it automatically without you having to switch. Hope I got this right but this is how I understand it and it has been working for me on GMRS | |||
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| Looking at life thru a windshield |
Thats what got me hooked on getting a GMRS, I was listening on the UV-5r and picking up transmissions from Pigeon Forge via repeater/net, I am south of ATL. Pretty sure some of the transmisssions from north of town and up in the GA mtns I am picking those up direct since they are showing on the gmrs channel and not the repeater. There are several nets on in the evening, really interesting topics. | |||
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Sorry if I answer these out of order or miss something. First off, the UV5R is not type accepted for GMRS use. It won't be legal to use for GMRS even with your GMRS license. Won't matter for SHTF use and not likely to be enforced otherwise, but you should be aware going in. Your understanding is a little flawed. GMRS repeaters work the same as ham repeaters, so you would set the channel up the same way as a ham repeater. All GMRS repeaters have a +5Mhz offset. So you're not going to use different frequencies in the A/B slots, a properly set up memory channel will automatically listen on the rx frequency, and then transmit on the tx frequency when you hit the PTT button. With regard to the CTCS and DCS, for general use you want them all off. Different repeaters require different tones to open the repeater though, so for every repeater you would need to change the TX setting on your radio to match the repeater tone. If you have local repeaters you would set up a memory channel that includes the specific tone for the repeater for convenience, otherwise you can change it on the fly. In chirp when you see 15-22 twice, the second set is the generic repeater settings for repeaters on those channels. You would add the specific tone for the repeater you want to talk to and you would be good to go. Without the tone you should be able to hear the repeater transmissions, but you won't be able to open it to talk. A different repeater on the same channel might have a different tone, so you would have to either change it or set up separate memory channels for each repeater. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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If you're talking to a repeater on a UV5R, tap the * button to reverse the radio. This will set it so you're listening to the input frequency of the repeater. The GMRS channel is the same as the repeater output, you have to listen to the input frequency to see if you're picking it up direct. *edit- reverse will only work if you have the repeater offset programmed- if you're just tuned in to the repeater frequency it won't do anything. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
You think that's cool? Talk to a guy in Bulgaria over a wire nailed to a tree in your yard. Now that's cool. I know a lot of people who poo-poo the Ham thing. "That's why we have cell phones!"  I've given up trying to convince most of them of the obvious, but that aside, radio is fascinating to me. Just the other day I was listening to a guy in France transmitting morse code on 5 watts. Granted, it wasn't a great signal, but I could hear him and got most of his transmission. If being able to communicate with someone halfway around the world by bouncing low power radio waves between one wire and another 5000 miles away ain't cool, man I don't know what is. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Looking at life thru a windshield |
EXACTLY! I have already been looking at 10 meter radios and it blew my mind that morse uses such low wattages. Wish I had looked into all this earlier, looks like a load of fun and possibilities. | |||
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Domari Nolo |
Ah! This is the stuff I was not understanding. Thank you very much. | |||
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A very long time ago, a neighbor two houses up from us was a HAM operator. He was VERY into it, to the point of convincing me (an 8th grader at the time) to take the classes and get an amateur license. I learned it well enough to pass the test back then, but I've certainly forgotten it all now. Anyway... after I cut his grass one afternoon we sat on his porch for a while and talked. He mentioned having been on the air a few days prior with a soldier in Asia somewhere (I believe he told me the man was in Vietnam, but I could easily be getting that detail wrong now). What made him really excited, though, was that he had been able to be the "patch" between this soldier and his wife on that particular evening -- "home" for the soldier and his wife was the town next door. Being able to link them up for a while was such a wonderful thing for all involved. God bless America. | |||
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I knew absolutely nothing about them when mine arrived. Several days of pretty intensive study and experimentation has me to the point I can use them now (on FRS frequencies) if needed. _____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama | |||
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Yep, I've had just about enough acronyms for one week.  | |||
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| Looking at life thru a windshield |
^^^^Yea I need to slow down, I started to study for my HAM, my old brain is starting to hurt.^^^ | |||
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| 34" Scale 5-String |
Same here; had to take a break from all this Boofwang learnin stuffs! Still wonderin how many fars I can talk... _____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
I respectfully invoke my rights guaranteed under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. I have no idea why my house is surrounded by white trucks:  | |||
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| Looking at life thru a windshield |
Tell the truth, you are having them put up a 200 foot tower for your antenna. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Reach out & touch someone...   ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Save America! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
That would be awesome! If one was serious about backup communications for the family in a 50-75 mile diameter, a tall tower, a repeater and mobile radios in each car would do that. It could probably be done for less than the cost of a new iPhone for the 6 of is including my father. I think the max height on my county is 65’ and there’s hurricane code. The picture is from after Ian when power was restored on our street. There were another six trucks down the street.This message has been edited. Last edited by: trapper189, | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
What is the purpose of the two year grace period for an expired ham radio license if you cannot transmit once the license has expired? Does this mean that if you renew your license within two years of expiration, you do not have to re-test, but if you renew after two years of expiration, you have to re-test in order to renew? | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
That’s what I read. Renew within the grace period, no retest. Miss the grace period and you start from scratch. | |||
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| Shall Not Be Infringed |
^^^Yes. that's correct. Also after two years from the date of expiration, if you license is not renewed, your Call Sign would be put back in the pool to be issued to new licensees, and would also be available a Vanity Call Sign, should someone want it. ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Save America! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
I ordered the bluetooth adapter that allows you to use an app on your phone to program the radios. I’m finding the while scanning the channels I have programed, there’ll be one channel that has some sort of interference going on and stops the scan. It was MURS channel 3 out at my youngest’s school this morning. I’d did pickup the repeater in that county and the three repeaters in our county at his school. I think the one is 25-30 miles from the school. I’m thinking that changing the radio’s frequencies on the go would be good. | |||
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